 In 2014 , Streep established two scholarships for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell – the Meryl Streep Endowed Scholarship for English majors , and the Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship ( named for Streep 's former classmate at Vassar College ) for math majors . In April 2015 , it was announced that Streep had funded a screenwriters lab for female screenwriters over forty years old , called the Writers Lab , to be run by New York Women in Film & Television and the collective IRIS . As of the announcement , the Writers Lab is the only initiative in the world for female screenwriters over forty years old . 
