{"id":21673,"date":"2024-05-08T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/?p=21673"},"modified":"2024-05-08T22:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:04:37","slug":"national-federation-of-the-blind-nfb-scholarships-for-blind-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2024\/05\/08\/national-federation-of-the-blind-nfb-scholarships-for-blind-students\/","title":{"rendered":"National Federation of the Blind (NFB) &#8211; Scholarships for Blind Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deadline: <\/strong>March 31, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>URL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nfb.org\/programs-services\/scholarships-and-awards\/scholarship-program\">Scholarship Program | National Federation of the Blind (nfb.org)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NFB annually offers scholarships to blind college students in the United States and Puerto Rico, to recognize achievement by blind scholars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong>:<br \/>\nApplicants must:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content\">\n<li>Be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nfb.org\/images\/nfb\/documents\/pdf\/confirmation-of-legal-blindness.pdf\">legally blind (PDF)<\/a>\u00a0in both eyes.<\/li>\n<li>Be residing in the United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico.<\/li>\n<li>Be 18 years of age by July 5, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Be pursuing or planning to pursue a full-time, postsecondary course of study in a degree program at a United States institution, except that one scholarship may be given to a person employed full-time while attending school part-time.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in the entire NFB national convention and in all scheduled scholarship program activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Award amount:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content\">\n<li>$8,000.<\/li>\n<li>Scholarship winners will receive assistance to attend the National Federation of the Blind Annual Convention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>If this information is out of date, please email <a href=\"mailto:bret.career.development@vanderbilt.edu\">bret.career.development@vanderbilt.edu<\/a> to let us know.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: March 31, 2025 URL:\u00a0Scholarship Program | National Federation of the Blind (nfb.org) Description:\u00a0 The NFB annually offers scholarships to blind college students in the United States and Puerto Rico, to recognize achievement by blind scholars. Eligibility: Applicants must: Be\u00a0legally blind (PDF)\u00a0in both eyes. Be residing in the United States, the District of Columbia, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":21615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-21673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-funding-opportunity"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/Funding-Opportunity-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21674,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions\/21674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}