ScholarMatch’s mission is to support underserved first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds to earn a bachelor’s degree within five years. We provide virtual individualized advising, targeted financial support, and career mentoring all the way to graduation.

ScholarMatch believes that culture is paramount. We are committed to maintaining a vibrant, productive culture that fosters growth, support, and excellence. Our core values guide our culture, and we strive to live into them each day.

Excellence

We are committed to continuous improvement, doing our best, and setting the bar high for ourselves, our students, and our volunteers. Our purposeful pursuit of excellence drives us towards learning, listening, innovation, and working towards our highest potential individually and collectively.

Integrity

We act with integrity, embodying honesty, ethical conduct, and moral courage — even when no one is around to see us do it. We stand up for what is right, speak truthfully, and strive to create a culture of trustworthiness and safety for everyone we meet.

Generosity of Spirit

We live with generosity of spirit. This expresses itself in a multitude of ways: we know that others may carry great unseen burdens and treat them with compassion, we feel and express deep gratitude for what we have, we give the benefit of the doubt, we empathize, pitch in, celebrate, and care. Generosity of spirit is at the core of our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the world.

Mycelium!

Mycelium is small, but immensely powerful: responsible for connecting each tree in the forest to share nutrients and medicine, carry warnings and information, detoxify soil, and more. Like Mycelium, we work to ensure that all members of our ecosystem can thrive—embodying hope, adaptation, connection, and inquiry into what is best for the whole.