The mission of the Darren Drake Foundation is to support the learning and development of individuals pursuing vocational careers. We will pursue this mission by providing financial assistance in the form of monetary scholarship awards, to be used by the honorees towards the tuition of a vocational school program. Qualified candidates will complete an annual application process, and honorees will be selected by a board of Foundation members responsible for the selection and awarding of scholarship funds.

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Goal One: We are committed to pursuing our mission and vision to ensure that individuals seeking vocational education and careers - careers critical to our society - receive financial support in their journey.

Goal Two: Our pursuit of funding is directly driven by our desire to award educational grant funds to as many people as we can. The more we raise, the more people we can help.

Goal Three: In the interest of awarding as many educational grants as possible, we intend to focus on programs that are relevant and provide the most ROI, to ensure we can maximize revenue usage for grants.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have not been able to hold our major in-person fundraising events. Instead we have had to turn to digital / virtual fundraising campaigns. This has led to somewhat of a grassroots fundraising effort, where our loyal supporters have taken to social media to raise funds, while also raising awareness. We have leveraged posts from like-minded people and organizations to raise awareness to our mission and vision, and the results have been very positive, all things considered. This pivot in emphasis has really helped springboard our digital efforts, and we intend to maintain this level of emphasis going forward.