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Organizational Development

Since its inception, Flanner House has demonstrated its commitment to the provision of human services by planning and implementing a variety of employment and training, social services, recreational and health programs. The origins of the agency sprung from the generous donations of Frank W. Flanner, a white mortician, who donated a parcel of land to the Charity Organization Society with the charge of providing a "Negro community service center," to be called Flanner Guild.  

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Myron K. Richardson , 2006 to present 

Cynthia Diamond, 2001 – 2005 

  • Charter Schools

William “Bill” Sears, 1998 – 2001

  • Housing Partnership

Chris Karimu, 1992 to 1998

  • Healthy Baby program
  • Purdue University and Indiana University research projects
  • HUD child care expansion
  • Bread and Flowers: outreach collaboration between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Flanner House for audience enhancement of the arts
  • HIV program
  • Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP)
  • Legal Service Outreach

John Thomas, 1989-1992

  • Youth program

Joe Smith, 1985-1988

Richard King, 1984

  • Senior aides/homemakers program

Reuben Hill, 1975-1984

  • Employment an education classes
  • Residential youth center (home for youth referred by the Juvenile Court an the Youth Service Bureau)
  • Site for alternative schools
  • Recreation department with boys and girls clubs
  • Arrival of Access social service program
  • Decentralized programs: Marion County Welfare Dept., Family Service
  • Association, Human Rights Commission

Dr. Cleo W. Blackburn, 1936-1975

  • 1945 -- Well-baby and prenatal clinics; dental care; hearing test; physicals at Morgan Health Center located adjacent to the Missouri Street building; featured diversified programs
  • 1949 -- Food program with a four-pronged teaching drive on gardening, canning (600 cans daily), cooking and nutrition/menu preparation
  • Early 1950s -- Nationally recognize pioneer of "Sweat Equity," forerunner to Habitat for Humanity and CDCs
  • Vocational arts with classes in cooking, sewing, millinery, weaving and needlework, carpentry, upholstery
  • 1940s-1960s -- Youth recreational programs, including craft classes, planned sports and after-school activities

Dr. Henry L. Herod, 1930s

  • 1908 -- Rescue Home for unmarried mothers and children
  • 1918 -- Child Development Center established
  • Tuberculosis clinic; Red Cross classes in first-aid
  • Library
  • Weekly Sunday school classes
  • Friendly Visitation Department lessons: Teaching the Value of Money; How to Get a Dollar's Worth; Wholesome Living
  • Through 1950 -- Full-time independent employment service (mainly for mothers who needed day jobs)