The Wood
Scholarship Trust for the Arts
One-In-Teen Youth Service, Inc.
703 Berry Road
Nashville, Tennessee 37204
The Wood Scholarship Endowment for the Arts.
One-In-Teen Youth Services, Inc. is pleased to announced the creation of the Wood
Scholarship Endowment for the Arts. Wood serves as an acronym for "Widening Our
Opportunities for Development." The scholarship will serve as a lasting memorial to
Mr. Daniel J. Wood who died in March 1995. The endowment was created by Wood's longtime
friends Carlton Cornett and DeWayne Fulton to commemorate his love of music and to offer
young gay men and lesbians the opportunity to pursue an education in music or the arts.
Income from the endowment will be used to fund annual scholarship awards to gay and
lesbian students beginning in 1997. "We wanted to create a memorial for Dan that
would embody his love of music," Cornett states. "Working with One-In-Teen
allows us to do that and to simultaneously benefit young members of our community who have
the potential to enrich the world with their artistic talents," Fulton adds.
The endowment trust was founded by donations from friends of Mr. Wood who hope to see the
trust grow. Donations can be made to "Wood Scholarship Endowment Trustees, c/o
One-In-Teen Youth Services, Inc." All donations to One-In-Teen for this project are
tax-deductible. The endowment will be managed by a board of trustees. The scholarship
funds will be awarded to one or more clients served by One-In-Teen Youth Services, Inc.
who are pursuing post-secondary education in music or the arts. One-In-Teen hopes that
this endowment is the first of many such scholarship opportunities that it will be able to
offer to young gays and lesbians.
One-In-Teen Youth Services. Inc., a Nashville-based organization, has provided support,
educational, and recreational activities to the sexual minority youth population (ages
14-22 years old) in Middle Tennessee for over 5 years. One-In-Teen Youth Services is a
Tennessee non-profit corporation and qualifies for tax deductible donations as defined
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All donations are fully deductible
under the guidelines published by the Internal Revenue Service.
Program Description
The purpose of the scholarship endowment is to provide financial assistance to lesbian and
gay youth furthering their education by pursuing a degree at a post-secondary educational
institution. Scholarships would be restricted to applicants that have been a
client/participant served by One-In-Teen Youth Services for a minimum of one (1) year at
the time of application or when first awarded the scholarship, if the application is for
renewal of an award.
The requirements to eligible for an award from the Wood Scholarship Endowment for the Arts
are that applicants must be pursuing a post high school education and have been served by
One-In-Teen within the last twelve months. Any young person that has participated in any
of the One-In-Teen program within the last twelve months and is pursuing a post-secondary
education in the fields of the musical arts or other arts are
eligible to apply for the Wood Endowment Scholarship for the
The scholarship endowment trustees will review the following criteria for evaluating
scholarship applications and selecting the scholarship recipients.
a. Academic record: reported by High School transcript, GED
training record, or other reliable sources.
b. Extracurricular activities: self-reported with the option to
request documentation.
c. Financial need: self-reported with the option to request
documentation.
d. Letters of recommendation: limited to 3 from teachers,
community leaders, professionals, and others with
knowledge of the
applicants ability to succeed in their educational choice. Letters of recommendation from
One-In-Teen board
members, sponsors, volunteer staff (sponsors), and scholarship trustees will not be
permitted to be
included in the application.
e. One-In-Teen Program participation: self-reported with the
option to request documentation.
f. Written essay: A written expression of the applicant's
educational plans and life goals.
g. Submission of musical/artist ability: An audio tape, video
tape, photographs, or other media that provides
examples of the applicant's
musical/artist ability. This criteria would probably used only for the Wood
Endowment Scholarship
for the Arts and not used for other scholarship that might be developed.
Scholarship recipients will be required to provide the scholarship trustees an official
copy of their transcript following each semester or quarter that the recipient receives
educational support from the scholarship trust. Should the scholarship trustees discover
that awarded scholarships funds were misused, the recipient would be required to repay the
funds that were misused before being eligible for further scholarship awards. If the
recipient that misuses awarded scholarships funds was not interested in further
scholarship eligible, the trustees would consider the amount misused and the circumstances
involved before deciding to require that the misused funds be repaid.
Immediate family of the scholarship endowment trustees will not be eligible to be a
scholarship recipient. Also, immediate family of the One-In-Teen Youth Services Board of
Directors will not be eligible to be a scholarship recipient.
If you have any questions about the Wood Scholarship for the Arts
please send us mail at oneinteen@hotmail.com