Invest. Inspire. Reach higher.
If you’re looking to make a local investment with unlimited potential, you enjoy inspiring others to fly, or, as a student, you believe that you can reach higher for your dreams, then Higher Up is for you.
In 2024, Higher Up successfully placed 30 local students in meaningful summer jobs and internships with 24 business partners throughout our community. With thanks to our hard-working students, vibrant volunteers, enthusiastic partners and generous donors, we know that we’re better when we all work together to impassion the workforce of our next generation.
Taking Flight: Our 2024 Students in Action
See our students and partners in the video below, where we celebrate their achievements in 2024!
In Good Company: Our 2024 Higher Up Partners
Higher Up was proud to partner in 2024 with Mercer County’s Summer Youth Jobs Connection. Through a grant awarded by the NJ Department of Labor, Mercer County funded the summer-job wages of 30 Higher Up students from East Windsor and Hightstown. We thank the County for this major support in a key and necessary element of our program: ensuring that our students are fully compensated for their hard work.
The partnership benefited our business partners as well. By covering wage expenses, the County provided financial relief for our students’ employers, making a difference especially to our smaller local companies. The opportunity for all businesses, large and small, to participate in the Higher Up program has helped us grow our community’s sense of social responsibility and shared success. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Mercer County in 2025.
Headline: At Higher Up, it’s our everyday mission that we fly higher – together.
Higher Up is a local nonprofit that serves current and graduated Hightstown High School students, including those who are under-resourced, by coordinating meaningful summer jobs and career-essential internships. Robust readiness and support programs – including resume writing and interview coaching, business etiquette and wardrobe basics, personal finance and wellness, motivational speakers and dedicated student-partner coordinators – ensure that students can thrive in their individualized placements and benefit from the opportunities that their work experience opens to them.
At Higher Up, we are determined for students to feel confident in their honed skills, experientially on-par with their peers and excited about reaching towards their futures. Of equal importance to us is for hometown businesses, skilled tradespeople and corporations, volunteers, sponsors and donors to feel proud and socially responsible when committing to the growth and development of local students – and come to truly share in their success.
What is Higher Up and How Does It Work?
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When you invest locally, students grow exponentially.
Today’s students become tomorrow’s workforce. Your financial support will help Higher Up students to grow personally and thrive professionally. Please consider making a donation today!
Meet Higher Up
125 South Street, Hightstown NJ 08520 | 609.469.4942 | info@higherupnj.org
Higher Up Opportunities Inc. (DBA Higher Up) is recognized as a 501(c)(3) organization.
Tax Identification Number: 88-4296817
Photography Credit: Chad Barret