Local Initiatives:
Clara White Mission is a century-old institution that has helped at-risk residents of Jacksonville gain a better quality of life. LISC has supported the Mission with project financing and operating support.
Local Initiatives:
LISC operating support helped Clara White Mission start White Harvest Farms, which supplies fresh produce for the local area and provides job training.
Local Initiatives:
White Harvest Farms gives local residents access to nutritious locally-grown vegetables in a “food desert.”
Local Initiatives:
White Harvest Farms also supplies fresh produce for Clara White Mission’s Culinary Institute, which trains students to become chefs and learn about the food industry.
Local Initiatives:
The Culinary Institute doesn’t just specialize in fine cooking, it serves as a job training center for low-income residents looking to learn a new trade.
Local Initiatives:
Students of the Clara White Mission Culinary Institute learn a new trade, new skills, and new opportunity for employment.
Local Initiatives:
Students from the Culinary Institute get hands on training with Clara White Mission’s catering work.
Local Initiatives:
Clara White Mission has used the food business to provide job training and employment to residents, turning around the lives of many in the Jacksonville area.
Local Initiatives:
With LISC support, Clara White Mission acquired and renovated and old church in a new catering hall, Riverside North that will be a venue for the Culinary Institute to expand its training for student-chefs.
Local Initiatives:
With a $650,000 loan from LISC, Clara White Mission’s new project will rehab Beaver Street Villas, a new 16-unit supportive housing development for Veterans and the new home for the Veterans Administration Outreach Center.