Zakat-eligible funder raises 125 million dollars across three Ramadan campaigns
For Mama, described as the first zakat-eligible, Muslim-led funder collaborative for maternal and newborn health, raised 13 million dollars in its first Ramadan campaign after the founder began pitching the vehicle in 2022 and spent more than a year building strategy, financing model and coalition. Across three Ramadan campaigns the vehicle, now called Every Pregnancy, has raised 125 million dollars from more than 190,000 individual donors.
The founder traces the model to an earlier failure in Libya, where Voice of Libyan Women led with rights language, conventions and statistics that embassies praised and families heard as unauthorized. Authorization arrived only after more than a year of visits to Dar al-Ifta, Libya's national institution for religious rulings, whose endorsement moved the same argument into Friday sermons and national television during Ramadan within weeks.
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review · September 23, 2026