The Privilege Grant is a bursary available exclusively to white men,
in support of their post-secondary education.

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We are pleased to announce the creation of the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant, a scholarship exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.

Why we support white men
American college campuses have changed and demographics once considered disadvantaged are no longer held back by racial, homophobic or sexist bias. Research now suggests that low-income causasian males are the most in need of help.1 Women's advantage in college graduation is evident at all socioeconomic levels and for most racial and ethnic groups.

Campus facts
Males make up only 43% of America's 20.5 million college students. Since the 1980s, women have performed better in high schools and earned the majority of BA degrees. There are thousands of scholarships for women, but very few for men.

Why we value education
Young adults with a bachelor’s degree earn 62% more than one with only a high school diploma. The percentage of jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree has doubled in the past forty years. Public policy has systematically impoverished and worsened the social and economic conditions of poor, single young men.

When will Grants be available?
Applications will open in Spring 2016. Privilege Grants will be awarded in early Summer 2016 to be available for Fall 2016 enrollment.

Continuing support
Financial aid isn’t the only key to success and education does not stop when you leave the classroom. We are building a mentorship network of industry professionals and tutors to give one-on-one attention to our recipients.
For donors and prospective mentors
If you are interested in providing financial or professional support to our recipients, contact donors@privilegegrant.com.

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Alt-right provocateur, Breitbart.com technology editor, #GamerGate champion, Twitter martyr, and inveterate self-promoter Milo Yiannopoulos now has another qualification to add to his CV: race- and gender-based scholarship creator.

Yiannopoulos, who has made a career out of inflaming the tensions between the progressive, identity-group-focused social internet and the roiling anti-PC counterculture that opposes it, has created a college scholarship fund only for white men.

According to its website, the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant is “exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.” Yiannopoulos is its president.

An American attorney, who spoke to BuzzFeed News on the condition that neither his name nor the name of his firm be used, confirmed that he had been investigating the legality of the fund on Yiannopoulos’s behalf and that the fund is real.

It’s the latest brazen act in a busy new year for Yiannopoulos, who earlier this month was unverified by Twitter for violating its terms of service — possibly for inciting harassment — putting him at the center of a controversy about free speech and trolling on the social platform.

The inaugural $2,500 grants, available for the 2016 school year, will draw from a pool that Yiannopoulos hopes will reach $125,000, for 50 grants in total. That money will come from private donors, whom Yiannopoulos would not name, and a $25,000 initial donation from Yiannopoulos himself. Yiannopoulos did disclose that one of the first group of donors is among the “very famous rappers, novelists, politicians [who] are all fans of mine on the DL.”

The idea for the white-men-only grants, which Yiannopoulos thought up within the past month, “started off as something that would wind up social justice warriors,” he told BuzzFeed News. “All of my very best ideas start as mischievous jokes because they will wind up the right people.”

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