{"id":704,"date":"2021-01-02T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/?p=704"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:32:09","slug":"foundation-is-open-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/foundation-is-open-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation is Open for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#1f7a55\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Applications for 2021 Scholarships are now being accepted by the Sandbox Foundation.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SCHOLARSHIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"381\" src=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SCHOLARSHIP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SCHOLARSHIP.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SCHOLARSHIP-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SCHOLARSHIP-768x293.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications can be downloaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sandbox-Foundation-Schoarship-Application.pdf\" title=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sandbox-Foundation-Schoarship-Application.pdf\">Clicking Here,<\/a> or from the foundation\u2019s application page on it\u2019s web site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/applications\/\">http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/applications\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students may submit applications between January 1st and March 1st of each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roughly thirty applications are received annually, with Romeo High School providing the dominant portion of submissions.\u00a0 The foundation\u2019s charter promises to grant four scholarships each year, while it typically awards six or more.\u00a0 Historically, the smallest grant has been a first year $2500 award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sandbox Foundation is unique in that it reserves at least one grant each year as a \u201cContinuing Scholarship\u201d, to be given as a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> or 4<sup>th<\/sup> college year award to a prior first year scholarship recipient of the foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past recipients have come from Romeo, Dakota, Utica, De Lasalle, and L\u2019anse Creuse North high schools.  The foundation focuses primarily on graduating seniors from Macomb County, Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for 2021 Scholarships are now being accepted by the Sandbox Foundation. Applications can be downloaded by Clicking Here, or from the foundation\u2019s application page on it\u2019s web site at: http:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/applications\/ Students may submit applications between January 1st and March &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/foundation-is-open-for-business\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandboxfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}