Today we’d like to introduce you to Sufian Nabhan.
Hi Sufian, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Islamic Center of Detroit (ICD) started in January 2000 as Islamic Center focusing on the youth and community civic engagement. Through the last 6 years, by building community alliances and focusing on the community services enabled ICD to transform to a community center with no discrimination of faith, culture, sex, age, or color. Since then, we have been expanding by working on new projects that benefit both Muslims and non-Muslims in the Detroit metro area (48228) and surrounding communities. Some of these efforts include a full-time school; Saturday school; Sunday school; after-school programming; a Quran program; youth empowerment tools and training; female empowerment workshops; MUHSEN Certified programming; community services (such as neighborhood clean-ups, clothing drives, a monthly food pantry); mental health programming for youth, adults, and seniors; Ramadan activities; Imam services; and recreational activities such as a girls’ and boys’ basketball, volleyball, soccer, and summer camps.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It was full of challenges and difficulties. Some challenges were dealing the mindset of few community members, and other challenges in dealing with some people’s discrimination against Muslims and their culture. The real 2 challenges were in establishing the new structure of the organization and developing the minds and hearts of the stakeholders while keeping the community engaged. And the second challenge is to increase the income to meet the new structure demands by creating new resources.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about the Islamic Center of Detroit?
I am a founder of the Islamic Center of Detroit and currently work as Executive Director. I am a businessman that worked in management since 1994, Owned and managed different telecom businesses, and have a degree in Organization Management & Development.
What does success mean to you?
For me, Success is achieving goals that is beneficial and bring happiness to you and your outer circles, The degree of success can be measured by those outer circles starting of your family, your neighborhood, your community, and your country and can benefit humanity.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.icdonline.org
- Instagram: MYICD
- Facebook: ICD-Islamic Center of Detroit
- Twitter: MYICD
- Youtube: Islamic Center of Detroit
