The scholarship fund targets low-income, secondary school students whose goal is to learn a vocation or profession in order to help support their families and communities. Scholarships are funded through individual and corporate contributions of any amount; $150.00 (U.S.) will cover one student's yearly living expenses and school materials. Aims of the Scholarship are:

• To train local youth, especially girls, in skills that will build a modern agricultural economy.
• To improve the living standard of local farmers and promote social development.
• To link the students with employment opportunities in their communities, thereby creating an alternative for out-migration into large cities where unskilled labor is often exploited.

Shandan Bailie Scholarship Recipients
Since 2004, the Ida Pruitt Memorial Scholarship Project has supported thirty-four students.  Donors include North Americans, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese. Most recipients are girls from families whose desperate circumstances would otherwise force them to take their daughters out of school. Some are orphaned. Others have a disabled parent. The students come from the far corners of Gansu province, including high mountain villages and nearby towns. All applicants are certified by their local government as belonging to China's poorest economic strata. Of the 1,200 high school students at the Shandan Bailie School, 20% qualify for the Ida Pruitt Memorial Scholarship. The criteria for receiving a scholarship include economic need, academic excellence, and good behavior. A rigorous, transparent application and accounting procedure ensures that each recipient is in need and receives the entire donation.