About

HERO was created with $10,000 Mayor Bill White raised at the city’s 171st birthday bash in August 2007. White has a keen understanding of how hard municipal city employees work and how in times of trouble they make sacrifices to serve residents. So he wanted to do something more for those employees who risk their lives every day.

“City employees are all about service to our fellow citizens,” Mayor White said. “In that spirit, we created HERO. It's about family helping family in a time of need.”

HERO is patterned after the long-established 100 Club, whose funding assistance is limited to survivors of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. HERO assists Houston's municpal employees.

You have a choice of two HERO funds to donate to:

• 100 percent of the money donated to the Survivor’s Fund will help the spouses and children of municipal employees killed at work.
  
• Money donated to the Administrative Fund will pay for administrative costs, such as advertising and incidental overhead costs.

*HERO board members receive NO money for their time and efforts.