[5][6] In 2004, AIC was one of three groups who shared a $10 million U.S. Department of State grant to carry out democracy training of Iraqi women.

AIC represents the American Muslim constituency on Capitol Hill and supports legislation that promotes international religious and civil freedoms.

[10] A significant part of the AIC's push for reauthorization included a media campaign, spearheaded by John T. Pinna, the Director of Government & International Relations at the time.

The campaign gained traction with a story running in the Washington Post and TIME magazine contacting Senate offices about the USCIRF bill.

AIC has also translated and distributed "The Montgomery Story," a Martin Luther King comic book that describes the 1958 bus boycott and the power of non-violence.

The program offers young social entrepreneurs microgrants to lead civil society projects in their local communities.

In 2007, when Haleh Esfandiari was imprisoned in Evin Prison in Iran, the American Islamic Congress created the site freehaleh.org to petition for her release.