--- title: Rihanna Launches a Scholarship Program description: Rihanna announced Monday that she is launching a global scholarship program through her organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation. canonical: https://time.com/4323769/rihanna-global-scholarship-program/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-09T21:39:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:16.488Z og:title: Rihanna Is Launching a Scholarship Program og:description: Get ready to work, work, work, work, work. og:url: https://time.com/4323769/rihanna-global-scholarship-program/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rihanna Is Launching a Scholarship Program twitter:description: Get ready to work, work, work, work, work. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rihanna Launches a Scholarship Program Like the Queen That She Is > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 9, 2016 9:39 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 9, 2016 9:39 PM UTC [Bad Gal](https://www.instagram.com/badgalriri/?hl=en) [Ri Ri](http://time.com/4293675/rihanna-beatles/) is doing some serious good with her latest project — a scholarship program that will award international and U.S. students attending college in the U.S. The eight-time Grammy winner announced on Monday that she would be starting a global scholarship program through her organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation. The singer told [_USA Today College_](http://college.usatoday.com/2016/05/09/exclusive-earn-a-college-scholarship-from-rihanna/) why supporting education is important to her, noting, “To be able to give the gift of an education is actually an honor,” Rihanna said. “Higher education will help provide perspective, opportunities and learning to a group of kids who really deserve it. I am thrilled to be able to do this.” The scholarship is need-based, with scholarships ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 and may be renewed for up to three more years or until they earn their bachelor’s degree, depending on what happens first. The only requirements for eligibility are that applicants have been accepted into a bachelor’s degree program at an accredited four-year U.S. college or university for the 2016-17 year and that they are residents of either Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Guyana, Jamaica, or the U.S. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4323769/rihanna-global-scholarship-program/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4323769/rihanna-global-scholarship-program/"},"headline":"Rihanna Launches a Scholarship Program Like the Queen That She Is","datePublished":"2016-05-09T21:39:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:16.488Z","description":"Get ready to work, work, work, work, work.","url":"https://time.com/4323769/rihanna-global-scholarship-program/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Rihanna"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4323769/rihanna-global-scholarship-program/","name":"Rihanna Launches a Scholarship Program Like the Queen That She Is"}}]}] ```