{"id":18420,"date":"2021-12-03T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=18420"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:59:18","slug":"vrg-offers-one-10000-scholarship-plus-two-5000-scholarships-to-graduating-usa-high-school-seniors-deadline-to-enter-is-february-20-2022-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/03\/vrg-offers-one-10000-scholarship-plus-two-5000-scholarships-to-graduating-usa-high-school-seniors-deadline-to-enter-is-february-20-2022-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VRG Offers One $10,000 Scholarship plus Two $5,000 Scholarships to Graduating USA High School Seniors! Deadline to enter is February 20, 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/promo_scholarships.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18421\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the generosity of an\nanonymous donor, The Vegetarian Resource Group each year will award $20,000 in college\nscholarship money to graduating U.S. high school students who have promoted\nveganism\/vegetarianism in their schools and\/or communities. Vegetarians do not\neat meat, fish, or fowl. Vegans are vegetarians who do not use other animal\nproducts such as dairy or eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One award of $10,000 and two awards\nof $5,000 will be given. <strong>Entries may only be sent by students\ngraduating from high school in spring 2022<\/strong>. Deadline is <strong>February\n20, 2022<\/strong>. We will accept applications postmarked on or before February\n20, 2021. Early submission is encouraged!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicants will be judged on having\nshown compassion, courage, and a strong commitment to promoting a peaceful\nworld through a vegan\/vegetarian diet\/lifestyle. Payment will be made to the\nstudent&#8217;s college (U.S. based only). Winners of the scholarships give\npermission to release their names to the media. Applications and essays become\nproperty of The Vegetarian Resource Group. We may ask finalists for more\ninformation. Scholarship winners are contacted by e-mail or telephone. Please\nlook at your e-mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For details on the contest, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, The Vegetarian Resource Group each year will award $20,000 in college scholarship money to graduating U.S. high school students who have promoted veganism\/vegetarianism in their schools and\/or communities. Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or fowl. Vegans are vegetarians who do not use other animal products such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18422,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions\/18422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}