{"id":70202,"date":"2025-12-04T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/vfw-voice-of-democracy-program\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:10:07","slug":"vfw-voice-of-democracy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/vfw-voice-of-democracy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"VFW Voice of Democracy Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Amount: <\/strong> $30,000.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>About: <\/strong>\r\n Each year, the Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) runs its Voice of Democracy Program, which gives high school students the opportunity to compete for scholarship money by recording democratic and patriotic-themed audio essays. The contest is open to students in grades 9-12 enrolled in public, private, parochial school, or home study program in the U.S., its territories, or its possessions. Additionally, dependents of U.S. military or civilian personnel in overseas schools are also eligible to participate.\r\n\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n <strong>Eligible Grade Levels:<\/strong> High School Freshman, High School Sophomore, High School Junior, High School Senior\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n <strong>Eligible Majors:<\/strong> All majors\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n <strong>Residency Requirement:<\/strong> No residency requirement\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Minimum GPA:<\/strong> No GPA requirement\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline:<\/strong> October 31 (annually)\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor&#8217;s website for up-to-date deadlines.\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vfw.org\/community\/youth-and-education\/youth-scholarships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Scholarship<\/a><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amount: $30,000. About: Each year, the Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) runs its Voice of Democracy Program, which gives high school students the opportunity to compete for scholarship money by recording democratic and patriotic-themed audio essays. The contest is open to students in grades 9-12 enrolled in public, private, parochial school, or home study program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-no-separators","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2356,3749,3751,4092,3750,4953,4776,3821],"tags":[5088],"class_list":["post-70202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-major","category-high-school-freshman-2","category-high-school-junior-2","category-high-school-senior","category-high-school-sophomore","category-no-gpa-requirement","category-no-residency-requirement","category-october","tag-5088"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Scholarship Spotlight","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/author\/scholarship-guru\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Amount: $30,000. 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