Clara White Mission

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What is the Clara White Mission?
For over 100 years, the Clara White Mission has helped Jacksonville's at-risk individuals gain new perspectives on life. The Mission has been the one-stop community center stimulating economic development through job training in educational programs, daily feedings, advancement and more. The standard for local outreach.

Our Feeding Program provides hot meals to the general homeless population five days a week.

Our one-stop community development center restores and builds lives through education.

Clara's at the Cathedral
Claras at the Cathedral is a training caf featuring an upscale menu at St. Johns Cathedral Church.

What Can I do?
The Clara White Mission is always in need of additional help. Whether you want to volunteer, donate or serve, your donation is important. Find out what you can do or just make a donation.

A group of 29 foreign delegates served at the Mission. These esteemed visitors whose visit was arranged by the International Visitor Corps of Jacksonville, the local partner for the U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program were a welcome volunteer force for our lunch service.

We hope so have them stop by the Mission on their next visit to the United States.

Do you know what hunger feels like? Do you know that painful, empty, grumbling feeling in your stomach? That dizzy feeling that comes from skipping a meal?

One thing that continues to impress me is how Clara White treats its clients with dignity and respect. I have had several negative experiences with homeless shelters and soup kitchens in the past, and have never seen an organization that cares as deeply for those it serves as does Clara White.

Community volunteers serve Thanksgiving Breakfast to 500 homeless and low-income families in the community.