About Our Mission

Mantua Cares is an local chapter of the Adopt A Neighborhood Development (A.N.D.) Program whose mission is to foster the self development of the Mantua community while serving as an advocate for community leaders and their importance to society. Our members represent a variety of fields: education, technology, social services, government, citizen groups, and more. We look forward to helping maintain and advance the Mantua community through quality programming and strategic partnerships. Learn about our wide range of training, technical assistance, professional development, curriculum and community-based learning. Connect with publications, resources and staff to make our young people even more successful!

Development is not as much a matter of how much one has as it is of how much one can do with whatever one has. A developed person can produce a better quality of life with few resources than an undeveloped person can with many. Of course, at any level of development a higher quality of life can be produced with more rather than less resources.

Knowledge of how to facilitate development of disadvantaged communities and nations is available. Supported by corporations as well as government agencies, such knowledge has been used in disadvantaged neighborhoods in underdeveloped countries and in many other places.

Executive Director
E. Darnell Ryans
eryans@mantuacares.com

Director of Business Development / F.A.M.E
Christopher Andoh
chris@mantuacares.com

Director of Marketing
David Bivens
david@mantuacares.com

Newsletter Editor
Trenae McDuffie
trenae@mantuacares.com

President - Techie Kids
Cornell Robinson
cornell@mantuacares.com

Highlights

• Mantua Cares Youth Addresses Mentorship Cornell Robinson adresses mentorship at the launch of the Center for the Prevention of School Aged Violence See More
• Mantua Youth Entrepreneurs Mantua Haverford Community Center Youth Entrepreneurs on the move. Read More

Jean Wrice
Tammi Wrice
Dr. Sheldon Rovin
Dr. Jason Magidson
Dr. Russell Ackoff
Brenda Lewis
Cheryl Hill
Darnell Singleton
Parrish Grantham

Supporters

Adopt A Neighborhood For Development
Mantua Haverford Community Center
Mantua Leadership Council
West Philadelphia Community Center
Youth Services Incorporated
University of Pennsylvania - Organizational Dynamics
Temple University
GlaxoSmithKline
A.J Crumbley
Mantua Against Drugs