Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) for the area around the Obama Center
Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) for the area around the Obama Center
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Obama Community Benefits Agreement coalition

Have an organization interested in joining the Coalition as an (active) Member or Ally Member? Email STOP, KOCO, and/or other organizations leading the coalition!

Ally Members

  • Alliance of the Southeast (ASE)
  • Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC)
  • Bronzeville Regional Collective (BRC)
  • Chicago Jobs Council (CJC)
  • Chicago Rehab Network (CRN)
  • Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)
  • Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT)
  • Community Renewal Society (CRS)
  • Environment, Transportation, Health, and Open Space (ETHOS)
  • Friends of the Parks (FOP)
  • Indivisible Southside
  • Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO)
  • Reparations at UChicago (RAUC)
  • Service Employees International Uni Healthcare Illinois/Indiana  (SEIU)
  • Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) - Chicago
  • South Side Chicago Democratic Socialists of America  (DSA)
  • Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at UIC 
  • Wolfpack
  • Woodlawn Baptist Church (WBC)
  • Woodlawn East Community And Neighbors (WECAN)

Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)

Member of the Coalition
byp100.org, [email protected], twitter.com/BYP_100, instagram.com/BYP100
Donate here.
773-940-1800
PO Box 9031, Chicago, IL 60609
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BYP100 is an member-organization of Black youth activists using a Black, queer, feminist lens. It grew from work by the UofC's Cathy Cohen and was fueled by failure to convict Trayvon Martin's murderer. BYP100 now has chapters from Mississippi to California's Bay Area, and is building a network for a transformative leadership development and direct-action organizing through democratic, consensus-building process.
BYP 100

​Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO)

Founding Member of the Coalition
KOCOonline.org, twitter.com/kocommunity
Donate here.
773-548-7500
4242 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, IL 60653

Through sustained engagement of low-income and working families, KOCO develops multi-generational leaders who impact decision-making process and public policies, improving the quality of life in our local communities.​ It works in Chicago's North Kenwood and Oakland neighborhoods. It was founded by religious and community leaders in the 1960s. ​It most recently helped win a UofC trauma center.
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization

Not Me We

Member of the Coalition
fb.com/NotMeWeSouthShore, ​instagram.com/NotMeWe_, [email protected]

A South Shore-based, grassroots community group focused on reclaiming economic and political power for residents through housing and education justice organizing and mutual aid. "We prioritize the needs of our working-class neighbors." Since August 2020.
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Southside Together Organizing for Power - STOP.

Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)

Founding Member of the Coalition
stopchicago.org, fb.com/stopchicago, [email protected]
​Donate here.
773-217-9598
602 E 61st St, Chicago, IL 60637

STOP builds the power of residents on the South Side of Chicago through organizing, popular education, and leadership development among people most directly affected by issues like gentrification and incarceration. STOP organizes the Youth Justice Program, the Mental Health Movement, and the Chicago Tenants Council. ​It most recently helped win a UofC trauma center.
Southside Together Organizing for Power - STOP.

UChicago Against Displacement

​Member of the Coalition
[email protected]

UCAD began in early 2014 as quiet prayers for a trauma center. UofC students brought on local church leaders, seminarians, and clergy to form the Interfaith Leadership Committee of the Trauma Care Coalition. It now organizes all parts of the UofC's campus for a CBA.
Prayer and Action Collective - PAC

Westside Health Authority (WHA)

Member of the Coalition
HealthAuthority.org
Donate here.
773-378-1878​
5417 W. Division St., Chicago, IL 60651

WHA empowers those often perceived as victims to make for socially, physically, spiritually, economically healthy neighborhoods. They began in 1988 as a coalition of parents, churches, healthcare providers, and organizations that prevented closure of St. Anne’s Hospital. They offer Every Block A Village (networks of support on over 100 blocks), Austin Wellness Center, community re-entry services, employment services, and more.
Westside Health Authority




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​Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

Ally Member of the Coalition
clccrul.org, twitter.com/ChgoCivilRights
312-939-3638
100 N. LaSalle St., Ste. 600, Chicago, IL 60602

The Community Law Project, part of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, strengthens Chicago area communities by providing high-quality, pro bono legal services and workshops to community-based nonprofits, small businesses and first-time home-buyers. 
Community Law Project

Poor Peoples' Campaign, Inc.