About Community Builders Chicago

Community Builders, Chicago (CBC) is a group of community activists engaged in facilitating the social and economic development of the Muslim community in Chicago. There are presently two locations where monthly forums are held. CBC Morton Grove meets on the first Friday of each month from 7pm-10pm, in the American Legion Civic Center, 6140 Dempster St, Morton Grove, IL 60053, CBC Rolling Meadows meets on the third Fri of each month 7pm-10pm at Northwest Suburban College,5999 New Wilkie Rd, #400, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008. Both are dinner meetings. Food is with a fee, but the meetings are free and open to the public.

We Believe

We believe that in order to promote our interests in America we need to establish more than Mosques and Islamic Schools in our communities. We feel that there is a need to establish institutions that will serve the social, political and economic needs of our community as well. Such institutions could be in the area of health care, business, finance, social welfare, media, public policy, philanthropy, etc.

Thus far We are promoting the establishment of the following independent programs in the community:

We realize that knowledge is power and education is a life long process. Hence education does not end with school or college but continues thru various mediums both formal and informal thru all stages of our lives. By sponsoring and organizing forums, workshops, emails and web pages we hope to serve the educational needs of our neighbors and community members.

Such an education we believe can positively impact on the individual as well as the collective life of the community. We also believe in the axiom that no man is an island and human beings can only reach their fullest potential through networking with others. However networking is a skill also to learn and to practice in order to be beneficial. Providing opportunities for networking is another important aspect of our work and commitment. Empowering people through education and networking hence remains our core mission.

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