The Salvation Army/ The Salvation Army of Clay County | DonationMatch


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Nonprofit Category: X - Religion-Related
Exempt Status: 501(c)(3) Church (IRS Form 990 Not Required)

To preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in his name without discrimination. We offer a food pantry every Tues. and Thurs. from 9am-11am and 1pm-3pm. We average lately 1500 families a month. They can come every 30 days to get food. Each year we partner with the Marines to do a Soles for Tots shoe drive to ensure all have shoes that fit and wearable that are in need we collect children and adult sizes, no high heels. Each year we also do a back pack outreach, parntered with Clay County School Board's Project Reach. We had over 1300 attendees and gave 777 backpacks filled with age appropriate school supplies, the children could also get free sports and school physicals, free toothbrush and toothpaste, free haircuts onsite from Sports Clips, free hotdog and snowcone. With many other vendors that have valuable information for parents and children. Every Wed. night we have character building classes for ages pre-k-12th grade, and bible study and dinner. We have low cost Performance Arts classes teaching low-income children in percussion, brass, piano, ballet and more. We have each year a Thanksgiving basket outreach, and our Angel Tree program. Last year we gave 400 baskets out and over 500 children received Christmas presents.