Applications for this year's round of security grants from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) close on 24 July - and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) is urging mosques, Islamic schools and Muslim nonprofits to apply before the deadline.
Since May's mosque shooting in San Diego, which killed three people, Cair has aggressively pursued renewed Muslim community access to this source of government funding, presenting it as a means of protecting mosques from such violence.
Cair has since also encouraged Muslims to build closer ties with the police - reviving a debate over policing that reflects a growing divide within the community, between those eager to collaborate with "law enforcement" and those who view it as an arm of an unjust social order.
Cair has long walked an ambivalent line on this issue. As a self-described civil rights and advocacy nonprofit with nearly 30 chapters, it positions itself as Muslims' primary defence against "overly-broad" policing.
Yet, at the same time, it has spent decades encouraging Muslims to "build bridges" with the very police agencies whose practices it claims to challenge.
