Project QUEST is governed by a board of directors, with daily operational oversight by the Executive Director. The board is made up of two parts. Community leaders, charged with insuring that the best interest of the potential trainees is paramount, make up half of the board. The second half consists of members of the local business community who focus on the needs of employers and the economic needs of the area.

In 2003, Project QUEST, Inc. received the Enterprise Foundation and J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Award for Excellence in Workforce Development. The award recognizes nonprofit job training and placement organizations across the country that are using best practices to effectively help individuals find and retain quality jobs. Project QUEST, Inc. also received the Ford Foundation and John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University’s Innovations in American Government Award. The Innovations in American Government Program identifies and promotes creative problem solving in the public sector and confers broad public recognition on innovative government programs nationwide.

Project QUEST offers comprehensive training opportunities to economically disadvantaged area adults interested in pursuing careers in targeted industry sectors which include a variety of career paths in: healthcare; business services/ information technology; manufacturing, installation, repair and maintenance. Barriers such as minimal education, insufficient job skills and an ineffective support system plague many San Antonio residents, contributing to a cycle of poverty that is passed from one generation to the next. Project QUEST seeks to break this cycle by targeting these challenges and providing the educational and occupational skills training necessary to secure family-sustaining employment and to establish economic self-sustainability for themselves and their family.

Project QUEST is a nationally recognized model that has been used to create similar organizations. These sister organizations are: Project VIDA, Capital Idea, Job Path, and Project ARRIBA.