Who We Are: UGA HEROs Milestones

UGA HEROs Milestones

“It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.”

~Mike Huckabee

When They Said It Couldn't Be Done...

UGA HEROs is the largest collegiate Fall Philanthropy in Georgia.

UGA HEROs has over 2,000 student members each year.

UGA HEROs has been chosen as the 2005, 2007, 2008, AND 2009 Campus Organization of the Year... the first ever to receive the award 2 years in a row!

UGA HEROs has raised over $1 MILLION for H.E.R.O. for Children. Inc. since its start in 2003, the first student organization at UGA to ever raise that amount in its first 6 years!

Film on the Fifty was the first Student Event hosted inside UGA Sanford Football Stadium

UGA HEROs had been featured on WSB, Fox 5, and 11 Alive NBC

UGA HEROs Timeline

2003

- UGA HEROs founded

- Raised $50,000 selling bumper stickers

2004

- Courtney Doran, Executive Director

- Raised $50,000

2005

- Courtney Doran, Executive Director

- Raised $75,000

2006

- Chris Hobson, Executive Director

- Raised $78,000

- Motto “You Don’t Need a Cape to be a HERO”

2007

- Kevin Scott, Executive Director

- Raised $306,144.28

- Motto “The Impact Starts Here”

2008

- Morgan Dorsey, Executive Director

- Raised $363, 803.91

- Motto “Making it Happen”

Spring 2009

- HERO raised $91,806.99

- In only 6 years, UGA HEROs was able to raise over $1 MILLION for H.E.R.O. for Children

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UGA HEROs is a nonprofit, student-run organization dedicated to raising funds for H.E.R.O. for Children Inc. H.E.R.O. for Children Inc. is dedicated to improving the quality of life of children in Georgia affected by HIV/AIDS.