NEW! Friends of the Tanner House Presents: Making the Tanner House Dream Come True
Between November 2024 and October 2025, Friends of the Tanner House has continued to emerge our operational blueprint through intentional neighborhood-based programming. We have continued to clarify our mission and vision while stirring up an impact with local collaborators, organizations, collectives, and initiatives.
Through the Wingspan-grant funded “For Love To Thrive” Neighborhood Humanities Series, we’ve been able to deepen our relationships and develop mutually-beneficial opportunities for dynamic community engagement informed by the Tanner life-work spheres of faith, family, freedom, arts, health, and education. This reflective report represents a moment-in-time for us to be able to share with you all what we have been learning throughout this process as we prepare to carry on tradition, establish new benchmarks for our organization, and deliver much more.
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Introducing the “For Love To Thrive” Neighborhood Humanities Series
Extending on our ‘23-24 “For Love to Thrive” survey project, this programming series in partnership with the Strawberry Mansion Learning Center responds to the offerings given to us by the community for FREE family-friendly, interactive humanities-oriented activities in the immediate neighborhood of the Tanner House. We are living up to our promise that we don’t have to wait until the House is revitalized in order for love to thrive in North Central Philadelphia.
Wingspan funding for this grant is made possible with the generous support from Spring Point Partners, and additional funding from PA Humanities, individual donors and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
(Above) Resonant themes synthesized from "For Love to Thrive" survey results during our June 2024 Workshop, laid out by CPCRS Research Fellow Khayla Saunders. (Below) Celebration outside Strawberry Mansion Learning Center with the Philadelphia Phillies
Meet Our Overall Programming Partners:
The passion and focus of the Strawberry Mansion Learning Center is our youth and the community in which we serve, and where we inspire, communicate, and educate. SMLC is a safe place for students to learn and grow.
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