{"id":1707,"date":"2019-07-17T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/p\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2019-11-15T04:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T04:55:52","slug":"scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/scholarship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Brillianteers Scholarship Program for LGBT (LGBTQIA+) Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n  .td-post-title .entry-title, .td-post-featured-image {display: none;}<br \/>  .scholarship-wrapper img {<br \/>    margin: 0!important;<br \/>  }<br \/><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><br \/>  .scholarship-wrapper h1 {<br \/>    font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;<br \/>    font-size: 20px;<br \/>    text-decoration: underline;<br \/>    margin-bottom: 26px;<br \/>  }<br \/>  .scholarship-wrapper p {<br \/>    font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;<br \/>  }<br \/><\/style>\n<div class=\"scholarship-wrapper\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Brillianteers_header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"778\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #fad1d1; padding: 40px;\">\n<h1>About the Scholarship<\/h1>\n<p>Brillianteers embraces empowerment, diversity, and inclusivity. It further recognizes the brilliance of the youth who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, which, as an umbrella term, also includes queer, intersex, asexual, and other identities (LGBTQIA+).<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this scholarship program is to provide financial assistance to an outstanding college student and member of the LGBTQIA+ community for $1,000. To apply for the scholarship, participants must write an essay of at least 300 words about their views on same-sex marriage in the global context and submit it on October 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>It is with pride that Brillianteers will announce the author of the best essay on October 16, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><b>Scholarship Value<\/b>: $1,000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f9e4e3; padding: 40px;\">\n<h1>Requirements: Who Can Apply?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Must be part of the LGBTQIA+ community<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Must be a legal resident of the United States or hold a valid student visa<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Must be currently enrolled in a four-year college degree within the United States<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Has a strong academic achievement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #fad1d1; padding: 40px;\">\n<h1>How to Apply<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Submit an essay of 300 words or more about same-sex marriage around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Send entry to <a href=\"mailto:heather@brillianteers.com\">heather@brillianteers.com<\/a>; one entry is allowed per applicant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">The deadline is October 1, 2019, and the awarding of the winner is on October 16, 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f9e4e3; padding: 40px;\">\n<h1>Criteria for Consideration<\/h1>\n<p>The bases of the financial assistance are the strength and timeliness of the essay submitted. However, any participant must meet the qualifications (primarily, being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community) to apply for the scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The Brillianteers Scholarship Program aims to award the student who has best demonstrated the ability to become a leading voice in the community and to create a positive impact on society in general.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f9e4e3; padding: 40px\">\n<h1>Scholarship Winner<\/h1>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Erekle Vakhramovi<\/strong> from College of Idaho for winning our Brillianteers Scholarship Program for LGBTQIA+ Students!<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to everyone who participated and made our scholarship giveaway a success.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Brillianteers_lower.jpg'); background-repeat: round; margin-top: -50px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 40px; height: 500px;\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 65px;\">About Brillianteers<\/h1>\n<p>New York\u2013based Brillianteers specializes in engagement rings, bridal sets, and diamond jewelry pieces for brides and brides-to-be. The company has 30 years of experience in fine jewelry with diamonds that are conflict-free and hand-crafted in its in-house facilities. Aside from its main office in New York, the family-run business also operates in London, Sydney, and Ramat Gan, Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\">Brillianteers.com<\/a> displays its collection of affordable engagement rings by diamond shape, ring design, diamond size, and price. The e-commerce site provides several options to streamline the search for a diamond ring online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this scholarship program is to provide financial assistance to an outstanding college student and member of the LGBTQIA+ community for $1,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brillianteers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}