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	Tanner Community Development Corporation \| TCDC
	A Non-Profit 501 (c) (3) Organization, Affiliated with Tanner Chapel A.M.E. Church

Reaching In • Reaching Out • Reaching Up

Welcome!
Thank you for visiting our site. We are pleased to share with you our vision, mission and our organizational goals. We invite you to visit as often as you like and watch us grow as we address the changing need(s) of our community.

Tanner Community Development Corporation (TCDC) is a non-profit, faith-based, tax exempt 501 (c) (3) organization designed to develop and encourage new approaches to solving community problems. TCDC provides infrastructure for outreach initiatives and is affiliated with the Tanner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phoenix, Arizona.

About US
Established in 1886 and remaining true to its history and dedication to families, Tanner Chapel continues to foster an outreach ministry of care beyond its walls. TCDC's mission preserves family life by connecting with our community to improve lives through meeting spiritual, economical, educational, health and housing needs.

TCDC remains committed to ministering to the needs of the total community without regard to ethnicity and as a result has developed a long and rich history of service to all people of the metropolitan Phoenix area. TCDC since its inception in 2001 has created comprehensive outreach programs to provide services for individuals and families in need.

TCDC provides programs and initiatives that produce outcomes in the community that changes peoples lives. Currently, each month, over one thousand bags of food are distributed to needy individuals and/or families.

Our Vision
By setting the God Inspired vision to words TCDC seeks to create a mental picture of the organization by:

Reaching In
To educate and develop the physical person (family) with tools that will stabilize them for future living.

Reaching out
To bridge the gap between the church and the community. Ministering to the believers and non-believers.

Reaching up
To provide a spiritual foundation for people to experience the presence of God on earth.

Our Mission
TCDC serves as the operational link through which the church will deliver it's outreach ministries to the community improving lives spiritually, economically and through health and housing.

DID YOU KNOW.........

Each year 45,000 African-Americans die from preventable smoke-related diseases.
Of the three leading causes of death in African-Americans heart disease, cancer, and strokes smoking and other tobacco use are major contributors.
Lung cancer among African-Americans accounts for the largest number of cancer deaths among both men and women.
Of current African-American adult smokers, more than 70% say they want to quit smoking completely.
Smoking is responsible for 87% of all lung cancers.
If current patterns continue, an estimated 1.6 million African-Americans who are now under the age of 18 will become regular smokers. About 500,000 of those smokers will die of a smoking-related disease.
Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in the United States.

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