New American's Initiative to Aid Muslims in Becoming U.S. Citizens.

New American’s Initiative Grant to Aid Muslims in becoming Citizens.

The Council, along with the Muslim Civil Rights Center, will be receiving grants from the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

On November 29th, The Council and the Muslim Civil Rights Center were notified that they would be receiving a grant, the New American’s Initiative, from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The central purpose of the New American’s Initiative is to coordinate a campaign for citizenship where legal permanent residents are directly linked to the information and services they need to successfully pursue citizenship. The grants were awarded in four areas; outreach, civics, legal and capacity building. The Council and MCRC were awarded Outreach and Capacity Building. The Outreach would provide the community with extensive outreach to spread the word about the importance and advantages of becoming a citizen and encourage people to start the naturalization process while the capacity building would allow both organizations to build the organizations to further the goals of the Initiative. The programs will take place some time early next year.