Voices Foundation

for the Promotion
of High School Debate

“There is nothing more heartbreaking to me, as a competitor and instructor, than witnessing such barriers preventing individuals from fully actualizing their desire to participate in the activity that I owe everything to. ”

— John McKay, Founder
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Recent Projects:

Scholarships for Debate Camps

Since 2007, the Voices Foundation has provided need-based scholarship assistance to make it possible for students to attend debate camps. Awards are based on (a) financial need, (b) commitment to debate, and (c) citizenship within the debate community. Past recipients, and their comments:


Voices Round Robin

Since 2005, the Voices Foundation has sponsored an annual fundraiser round robin in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Traditionally, the round robin is held in the Spring, on the topic that will be debated at the Tournament of Champions. Past results:


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When I first thought about what debate camp I would like to attend this summer, I knew I would want to go to one of NDF’s sessions. I had gone there the year prior, and my experience had been amazing. I knew I wanted to be challenged, so NDF was the camp for me. Each day was crammed with lectures, labs and electives that always helped me improve my debate skills. We also had practice debates almost daily, that helped us work on skills [...]

—Scholarship recipient, 2009

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I returned from NSD yesterday. The knowledge I gained, along with the camp experience in general, was phenomenal; this camp is definitely the best out of all of the camps I've been to during the past summers. The NSD staff was very helpful and always eager to answer my questions. I felt like NSD has made me a better debater in that I can understand the more technical debate ideas, such as: theory, kritiks, etc. My research skills have also become more efficient. [...]

—Scholarship recipient, 2009