In 2003, co-founders Claudia Bell and Elizabeth Anne Wachtmeister began a tradition of service with their students at The English High School with a service-learning trip to Honduras.  As students graduated from high school and continued with local, national, and international community service trips in college, Claudia and Anne were inspired to start the organization, Quest Adventures, so that more Boston students could have similar opportunities to give back to their communities here and abroad.

Since 2008, Quest Adventures has operated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, committed to empowering students to make a difference in their own lives as well as those of others.