The Boston Higher Education Resource Center (HERC) serves under-represented students in grades 9-12 and their families. It does so through in-school and out-of-school academic enrichment, career advising, and academic support and retention services to help them graduate from high school and college. HERC awakens vision and purpose in the lives of the participants. HERC equips and empowers them to achieve their vision, to realize their potential and to transform their lives and communities. We believe every student in our city has unique gifts, talents, and passions. Students are capable of achieving what they set their minds too. Yet far too often, students of color with low-incomes have not had the same opportunities as their higher income peers. We’re on a mission to change that by connecting first-generation-to-college high school students with the resources, connections, and tools they need to get in and stick through college.