History Timeline

1898	Flanner Guild established after Frank Flanner donated a small portion of land to the Charity Organization Society
1903	Name changed to Flanner House
1924	Became a charter member of the Indianapolis Community Fund (forerunner to United Way of Central Indiana)
1935	Incorporated as a not-for-profit organization
1946	Dr. Cleo W. Blackburn was personally recruited by Frank Flanner eight years after he arrived in Indianapolis as the grandson of a slave, with $7.19 in his pocket.
1987	Merged with Community Centers of Indianapolis

Flanner House offices were located in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
First in country to offer neighborhood health center services.
National acclaim and funding received from Reader's Digest, Survey Graphics; Rockefeller & Rosenwald Foundations
$50,000 raised for building in 1941
Canning operation at 6,000 daily in 1949
Eleanor Roosevelt made a personal visit on Nov. 14, 1957
Flanner House had ties to Lockefield Gardens library project
Bill Hudnut joined the board in 1969
Planned youth sports activities were the forerunner to the Scarborough Peace Games in the 1970s
Building committee raised $1.3 million (Jack Snyder, member)
Service goal of current building: 200,000 annually
Resident facility for the deaf in 1973