Gates Foundation Statement on Scholarship Program

The Gates Foundation’s mission is to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy and productive life. We take our compliance obligations seriously to ensure we can operate in service of this mission. In September 2024, we began evaluating our Gates Scholarship program to ensure the program was reaching the broadest range of low-income students. It has been decided to expand eligibility to all Pell Grant-eligible students in order to achieve this goal. In the future, Gates Scholarship recipients will be selected through the expanded eligibility criteria.