Thank you for sharing details about your business with the MCC. The policy below is only for for-profit businesses and San Francisco Bay Area organizations. If you are a Bay Area nonprofit organization, please see our nonprofit support policy.

The MCC is a regional masjid with a vibrant congregation that focuses daily on building faith within the community. Each day, we aim to open our doors wider and be a welcoming space for everyone who enters our facility, so they can experience what a community should feel like.

The MCC has specific guidelines on how our non-profit organization supports community businesses:

1. For East Bay restaurants, hundreds of worshipers visit our Jumu’ah prayer services each Friday. Since its founding in 2010 at its current location, the MCC lunch team has ordered about 130 takeout lunch boxes each Friday (except during Ramadan) so that worshipers at its weekly three services have a convenient way to pick up lunch before heading back to work or school. The MCC requires that each restaurant or catering establishment have a current business license and insurance. We do not order home-cooked food. The volunteer team will handle the sale of the food items. The MCC East Bay is a green masjid, so we ask vendors not to send food in styrofoam (only compostable food takeout containers). Please message our programming team at operations@mcceastbay.org to be considered for this program. For non-restaurant food establishments, such as food trucks and bakeries, please also message us at operations@mcceastbay.org, to be added to our community vendor list for consideration at our carnivals, bazaars, Iftars, and other community socials. 
2. For community businesses & for-profit community organizations, the MCC currently lacks the capacity to share community business or for-profit community events/activities with our congregation. If you’d like to consider partnering with MCC to host your program, please submit details on our suggestion form. The MCC Events Committee will determine whether your organization’s partnership aligns with our regional focus and programming ethos. We also no longer have a community board in our foyer. We have a digital community board shared only with MCC staff. Staff members who work closely with the community daily can then share their details with community members as appropriate.   
3. The MCC Jumu’ahs, newsletter & social media channels are reserved for MCC programming. Brimming with activities for our subscribers, our weekly events newsletter (subscribe at https://mcceastbay.org/newsletter) is sent out at 5 p.m. each Thursday. We hold back internal events at MCC each week to prevent overwhelming our subscribers or cluttering their inboxes. We do not have a Community Events section for our Bay Area nonprofits to promote other events. We also do not make announcements or allow promotions during Jumu’ah services, including no flyering cars or handing flyers to worshippers as they come and go for the prayer services. For any business that flies on worshiper vehicles at MCC or at any off-site MCC events, like on Eid, MCC will impose a one-year ban starting on the date of violation, during which MCC will not order food items from the offending business for any MCC events. Our partner masjid, the SBIA in San Jose, advertises paid community events and organizations. Contact newsletter@sbia.info for pricing.
4. MCC Website Sorry, we do not allow advertising on mcceastbay.org. We are a 100 percent ad-free, spam-free, and sponsor-free website. MCC is for community members who are sincerely seeking faith within the community. And as daunting as the task is, the last thing we want is for our users to be distracted by ads, banners, and pop-ups. Our congregation’s data is private, and we will not allow any third party to market to our members.
5. Ramadan The holy month, is an especially special time when the community center is at its fullest, most spiritual, and most active. We know that our community may enjoy the communal atmosphere of a hot drink or a late-night snack after the nightly Taraweeh prayers, but at this time with the current premium on space and setup at MCC, MCC cannot accommodate vendor requests to set up outside the very busy community center or its perennially full parking lot or in the neighboring parking lots that MCC rents each night. We offer daily Iftar for those without local families and travelers. To be considered for daily Iftar meals catering, please message us at operations@mcceastbay.org.
6. Community sponsorship requests. We appreciate the many causes, banquets, and invitations to sponsor events and fundraisers. Except for our community strategic partners, MCC does not support events, fundraisers, or crowdfunding campaigns. We ask that individuals apply directly to us for financial assistance, food, burial assistance, or an in-house scholarship. You may also submit details on our digital community board.
7. Zakat/Sadaqa: Our Zakat and Sadaqa funds are reserved only for families in the East Bay (generally Alameda and Contra Costa counties), and the MCC Zakat/Sadaqa Committee stewards each fund. We do not reallocate or transfer our congregation’s donations to other organizations.
8. The MCC facility is available for rental. Community organizations and businesses may rent the facility for approved programming. However, a nonprofit may not rent any portion of the MCC for a fundraiser or perform fundraising during a private event. Approval of a nonprofit event is subject to the Board of Directors’ approval. 

Questions? board@mcceastbay.org