Drew & Associates Wins $450,000 Grant for Orange Coast College

We are celebrating success in the Drew household this month. I'm pleased to report that my team helped Orange Coast College (OCC) win an extremely competitive grant from the State of California to fund its new computer numerically controlled (CNC) technology program that is worth $450,000.

This victory comes on the heels of an earlier effort to help OCC win its first grant from the Orange County Health Care Agency for an alcohol prevention services project worth $220,000.


In both cases, I can report that success came from moving quickly when I first learned about the grant opportunity. By quickly creating a rough draft that laid out the key elements of both proposals, I was able to give the staff at OCC the tools and framework they needed to add in the telling details and personal stories that made a big difference in beating out the other competitor colleges and institutions.