Sound Vision develops relevant content and resources for Muslims, our masjids, schools, and our neighbors with a special focus on young people. We do this with the help of a creative team of scholars, artists, and developers. Sound Vision produces Muslim Network TV, a global media offering for muslims around the world, and has launched Justice For All, the human rights organization of Muslims.
Sound Vision has been around since 1988. Here is a short list of our accomplishments and programs.
Accomplishments
- Production:
- We have produced over ten thousand articles, documentaries, songs, videos, Radio shows, documentaries, and TV programs that have a global impact, relevance, and reach.
- Sound Vision Foundation data was found to be training AI database responses (Source: Washington Post, Sound Vision Foundation ranked 114,911).
- Our documentaries have been shown globally in over 20 countries, as well as throughout Canada and on 68 US-based television channels.
- We have played a key role in various productions, including NPR, BBC, ABC, NY Times, and collaborating with Oprah Winfrey.
- Developed a 52-page guide on addressing LGBTQIA+ in our communities as a result of a Thinking Retreat in Silicon Valley; this has been piloted by a focus group of 100 scholars, teachers, and parents and will be distributed widely in April 2024.
- Media:
- Radio Islam: We aired the nation’s only daily Radio Islam for over 20 years.
- Media training: We have organized over 15 media training sessions for current and ongoing Muslim causes and campaigns that have seen value across local communities and within mainstream media.
- Imam spokesperson training: 50+ imams have been trained to foster educational growth across local communities.
- Social media network: We maintain 30+ social media accounts that have over 1 million supporters that promote awareness and connect causes and communities.
- Youth Development:
- Produced Adam’s World: For children ages 2-7: For over 34 years, Sound Vision Foundation has pioneered the production of the first Muslim, English-language children’s educational series Adam's World. This flagship product, employing a puppeteer from Jim Henson’s team, has supported over 2 million multi-generational Muslim youth across the world.
- Launched the Genre of Islamic Nasheed in English: Sound Vision Foundation worked with successful musical artists to launch a genre of Islamic music (nasheed) in English, producing albums that encompass over 250 songs.
- Articles on Living Islam in the western context: We have published 500+ articles that aim to guide Muslims on how to successfully merge religious beliefs and practices within western culture.
- Publish a weekly newsletter called Muslim Home to provide parenting guidance, tips, and resources for Muslim parents.
- Strategic Communication, Think Tanks & Public Relations for Muslim Community:
- Brought awareness at all levels (local and global) and put an end to the genocide in Bosnia. Our individual task force campaigns in countries facing genocide and challenges became the basis of launching the Justice for All organization.
- Established the formal recognition of genocide and rape as war crimes in public international law.
- Promote our community interests and come up with solutions to meet our global challenges through engagement with major US think tanks and through organized thinking retreats.
- Recognized as a thought leader within other organizations (e.g., CAIR) and local community leaders (Imams) who use our Talking Points and Thinking Points to address community challenges as they arise.
- Launched several PR campaigns for the community, including the viral “hey ISIS, you suck” campaign that was covered in the media nationally.
- Utilized strategic partnership with professional PR firms to ensure that our communication is impactful, relevant, and responds directly to challenges that impact our global community.
- Developed 6 guides and manuals that are available for the Muslim community on prioritized topics for support and guidance, including a guide for local community leaders on domestic violence that was licensed by the state of New York and utilized by the daughter of a Supreme Court Justice in her training.
- Empowering sustained energy through advocacy training to channel the understandable frustration related to the Palestine conflict in the Muslim community.
- Implement over 12 types of training annually, including topics such as weekend school and NextGen training.
- Implement MuslimFest, the largest festival of Islamic arts in the world for over 20 years, bringing together over 70K people:
Current Project of Sound Vision: Muslim Network Television (Muslim Network TV)
- Subscribed to a high end media monitoring service monitoring across 2,700 television channels and 400,000 media outlets to stay apprised of Islamophobia in the media
- Provide programming for and by the Muslim world since 2020 - both news programming and variety shows - and runs 7 days a week. It provides a much needed global perspective as well as emphasis on unbiased media coverage. MNTV is available without cost through Satellite (coverage across US, Canada, and Mexico) and OTT, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Roku, Samsung Tizen, as well as on smart phone apps.
- Global Muslim news coverage on a daily basis that prioritizes news stories and accurate reporting across the world. Daily reporting and near real-time statistics and updates on Palestine with on-the-ground reporters. One of our reporters lost his life while covering the conflict another has been targeted at least 2 times in ongoing bombing.
- Reached verification on YouTube with over 150,000+ subscribers in our first year of prioritizing this platform.
- Reach an audience of over 650,000 people across platforms where we air or stream content.
- Dawah:
- Produce 6-hours of Dawah programming to reach rural areas across North America and combat misinformation about Islam.
- Empower and support the Latin Muslim community in North America with dawah and establish an outreach center in Chicago.
- Priorities for 2024
- Training and Education
- Develop and launch a major project for youth mentorship
- Revise existing youth manual with fresh content to address current challenges faced in schools and colleges
- Guide Muslims in highschool to apply successfully to Ivy League schools
- Produce and publish a 16-page guideline for Muslim students in school who are engaged in advocacy but face challenges
- Organize 30+ trainings for youth and adults this year to promote engagement, education, advocacy, and guidance
- Hire trainers and support resources to implement our goals
- Media
- CNN has offered Muslim Network to be a part of its affiliate program
- Hire 10 more reporters this year to increase coverage and reach
- Produce “Falafel Dude” animation series for middle school students
- Produce 50 fresh episodes of Adam’s World
- Add new programming on entrepreneurship, modest fashion, science, and medicine
- Increase viewership to 1 million
- Share Muslim News daily with world media
- Produce Muslim news in languages outside of english to increase global reach
- Produce micro news
- Training and Education
