who we are The purpose of Mission Clarksville is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults who are working together to grow healthy food for the most disadvantaged in Clarksville Montgomery County. Mission Clarksville changes lives. They have discovered that if you raise the expectation level for a young person while also empowering them with deeply meaningful work, then they will rise to the occasion.

By linking youth, hard work, and meaningful service together, Mission Clarksville is building a remarkably diverse and integrated community of young people who can thrive in a multicultural world and who will emerge as the leaders and problem-solvers of tomorrow. what we do Mission Clarksville’s food growing program is called "The Food Initiative." Every summer they hire and pay diverse young people from all over the city to grow and harvest organic fruits and vegetables for our local hunger relief organizations. A portion of those youth interns are then re-hired to continue on throughout the remainder of the year. They call their summer term the Summer Youth Program (SYP) and they call their fall and spring term the Academic Year Program (AYP). Their teams of youth interns are called Dirt Crews. The food that is harvested by Mission Clarksville is donated to organizations such as the Salvation Army, Loaves and Fishes and Madison Street United Methodist Church. Mission Clarksville’s programs have a strong focus on health, service-learning and leadership. Because their youth interns are paid, their expectations are very high. In fact, Mission Clarksville’s youth programs incorporate these four fundamental principles in all that they do: rigor, relevance, relationship, and 100% responsibility. They call these the 4-Rs.