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Blocks Together (BT) is a membership based community organizing group serving the West Humboldt Park (WHP) community on Chicago’s Westside for over 17 years. The organization organizes residents around education, housing, economic justice and youth issues. BT is firmly committed to working on issues of social justice and to empowering people in the community to make their own decisions in all areas of their life. We emphasize a social justice analysis within the framework of the organization, providing political education trainings and connecting residents to broader social justice movements.

Our members are individuals who work, worship, live, access services or go to school in WHP. Members make decisions at every level of the organization. They determine all issues to be addressed and recruit additional leaders to participate in the work of the organization. The Board of Directors is composed entirely of residents, including youth members. This is a unique position for most of our members, and BT is working to strengthen BT’s board of director’s role in leading the BT agenda.

BT is one of few community based organizations in Chicago that only does community organizing, we have no service programs. Therefore all of our efforts are geared towards civic participation and leadership. We consider ourselves to be a grassroots community organization devoted to the education and mobilization of low income people of color of WHP.