The Trust's mission is to provide Harvard's schools with supplemental curriculum support, equipment, extra-curricular experiences, and staff development, and to broaden community awareness, involvement, and confidence in our students and our schools.

Through its grants program, the Trust distributes funds to specific projects and opportunities submitted to the board of directors by teachers, administrators, parents, and students.

The Trust is independent of all municipal and school boards and teacher organizations. It acts, however, in harmony with the schools' educational goals. It is governed by a board of directors consisting of parents and community leaders.

The Harvard Schools Trust was formed in 1989 as a nonprofit, exclusively educational and charitable organization to raise funds to supplement the curriculum and activities of the Harvard Public Schools.