The primary focus of D.R.I.V.E. CLiCK is to DRIVE local youth to utilize CLiCK RESOURCES through INNOVATIVE training while promoting their VISION and inspiring ENTREPRENEURIALISM in the food industry.  By providing actual skill-based training and information on starting a local small food business, CLiCK aims to inspire adolescents from all walks of life to discover their inner entrepreneurial potential and grow into leadership positions.

One of the barriers to providing an integrative, hands-on, culinary program like this is lack of transportation, as CLiCK is located just outside the main hub of Willimantic and away from local bus routes.  This has been an ongoing challenge that prevents CLiCK’s educational programming from reaching our local youth.  The addition of the van would allow CLiCK to transport up to fourteen individuals to and from the facility while providing additional employment for a program educator and bus driver.  CLiCK will be recruiting and engaging local middle and high school students to create their own value-added product that is created, grown, processed, packaged, and distributed from CLiCK.  Reliable transportation will allow us to develop and establish a permanent long-term youth entrepreneurial program around the CLiCK mission of Grow, Cook, Share.

The Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation has financially supported CLiCK's education program ongoing and will continue to do so by matching up to $12,500 of funds raised through this platform.