Tenfold joins Tabor Community Services and Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership. These robust organizations have a combined 80 years of service to the Lancaster County Community. Tabor was founded by men and women who saw discrimination as an affront to their faith. One of Tabor’s founding members, Grace Wenger, whose legacy of compassion, care, and kindness lives on through Tenfold’s work today. LHOP was created by county and municipal governments, business and civic leaders to focus on housing affordability for low to moderate income individuals and families. As these two organizations have explored the possibility of a merger, today we can see that our combined efforts will be multiplied to ensure that there is a place in our community for anyone seeking support on the spectrum from experiencing homelessness to permanent housing. In Tenfold, they will have an advocate and champion to help them achieve their goals and dreams.
Read Grace Wenger’s “No Room” — in Lancaster? article, the inspiration for Tabor’s founding.
tenfold history
- 1968Tabor was founded by members of the Mennonite Community in Lancaster to help low-income families find housing and manage their finances. They were led by the scriptural call to demonstrate their concern for others through action and to work to eliminate the forces that divide us as a community.
- 1970sTabor became a HUD approved counseling agency and expanded its services to all of Lancaster County.
- 1986Tabor was approved as a consumer credit counseling service agency.
- 1994LHOP was founded by county and municipal government, business and civic leaders focused housing affordability for low to moderate income people.
- 2002LHOP was Certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) by the U.S. Treasury Department, LHOP also provides a full range of technical and financial services to those seeking to create or preserve affordable housing.
- 2005TLC became a program of Tabor. 2007 Beth Shalom became a program of Tabor.