Using data from three rounds of surveys of thousands students in 298 classes in 75 high schools in Shaanxi province, this paper documents the implementation of the Compassionate Hearts Scholars program and evaluates the effect of the program on scholar winners’ and nominees’ educational performance, selfesteem, selfefficacy and social responsibility. The result shows that scholarship nomination, election and community service can improve scholarship winners’ academic performance and selfesteem and social responsibility of the scholarship winners. The finding implies that adding extracurricular community service to school education curriculums may be a winwinwin strategy, for the students, schools and local communities.