Community Statements

June 2, 2021 Come join ING’s growing team which is pursuing peace through religious and cultural literacy as well as through face-to-face engagement. We are in search of two top-level professionals to fill the Programs Director and the Operations Manager roles. If you or someone you know is looking for meaningful… Read More

May 13, 2021 Wishing all those celebrating a blessed and joyous Eid ul-Fitr! For our friends of all backgrounds, Eid ul–Fitr commemorates the end of Ramadan and is a day of morning prayers and reflections followed by celebrations with family and friends. To greet a Muslim on Eid, the greeting… Read More

May 10, 2021 Dear friends, As we near the end of Ramadan, I want to share with you how ING is planning to leverage our experience and expertise to advance a better understanding of Muslims and Islam, prevent hate crimes, and build peace in our communities working alongside our religious… Read More

May 5, 2021 ING Virtual Benefit Event, held 5/4/21 Dear friends, During these blessed last ten days of Ramadan I am reaching out to you to introduce myself, share links to our online Benefit events which we held yesterday, and to ask for your support. My name is Dahlia… Read More

May 4, 2021 Today on National Teacher Day, we at ING want to take this opportunity to thank teachers for all that you do every day for the students of America. From the bottom of our hearts we thank you for your dedication and service. We put together this short… Read More

May 2, 2021 Salam alaykum/Greetings of peace, According to several studies, Knowing someone from a marginalized or stereotyped community reduces negative perceptions about that community.Even more effective in reducing stereotypes is gaining some knowledge about that community’s beliefs and culture.And when you reduce stereotypes about one group, it leads to… Read More

April 21, 2021 Join Us Tonight for an Interfaith Virtual Iftar Ramadan as a Celebration of Compassion and Unity Join us tonight from 7:00 – 8:00 PM PDT on YouTube Live! The Islamic holy month of Ramadan, falling this year between April 13 and May 12, reminds… Read More

April 20, 2021 Today Derek Chauvin’s trial came to an end with a guilty verdict. While this was a victory for justice, it is also a stark reminder of the reality that in 2021, over a century and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation, to be a Black person, especially… Read More

[San Jose, CA, 4/19/2021] ING expresses its deep condolences to the victims and their families following a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis last Thursday which took the lives of 8 people and injured several others. We also stand in solidarity with the Sikh community, as four of… Read More

April 18, 2021 As the nation reels from yet another police killing of a black man, Daunte Wright, just miles from where the trial of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd is taking place, the tape of a fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old Latinx boy in Chicago… Read More