The Pepsi Refresh contest for August has now come to an end. Operation: Sound Off! (
OSO) finished 156
th out of 1231 possible grant recipients. They will now re-submit their application for October's voting period.
"I won't lie, it would've been nice to receive the grant,"
admitted co-founder,
Scotty Huff, "but we are tremendously thankful for the opportunity and mostly for all the wonderful supporters who voted for us every day. We never had a day that we didn't move up the chart. That means people were voting every day."
"We knew the Pepsi grant was a long shot, " adds co-founder, Robert Reynolds. "
OSO will continue on regardless. The challenge now is to find the funding we need to provide the opportunities these men and women have earned."
To stay up to date on the progress of
OSO and it's talented military artists, visit
www.OperationSoundOff.com often, follow
OSO at
www.facebook.com/GoOSO and
www.twitter.com/Op_SoundOff. To get important updates to your email, join the
facebook group, "
I Support Operation: Sound Off! Helping Troops Realize Their Musical Dreams".