The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are at it again. Trying to help disadvantaged kids get an education. They have donated $122 million to send hundreds of Washington, D.C. kids to college.

More than 2,200 students will be provided mentoring and college scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for up to 5 years. The students will be picked from neighborhoods where only one in three students graduates from high school and only one in twenty earns a college degree within 5 years.

The first scholarships will be handed out this spring to 175 high school juniors. Students will be picked based on several criteria including 'resilience' and 'demonstrated commitment to education' along with their high school grades and standardized test scores.

Good for you Gates Foundation. You are going to change a lot of young peoples' lives forever.

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive