Heloise Werthan Kuhn Scholarship Fund Grant

Heloise Werthan Kuhn Scholarship Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
Last Updated: August 23, 2025

Summary

The Heloise Werthan Kuhn Scholarship Fund, managed by the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, supports pregnant or parenting teens in Tennessee. With a mission to foster self-esteem through education and technical training, the fund aims to empower these individuals to enhance their job skills and break the cycle of poverty associated with teen pregnancy. Established by Heloise Werthan Kuhn, the scholarship reflects her commitment to community welfare and education.

Overview

About Us For over 30 years, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT) has been driving meaningful, positive change in our community. We do this by bringing together those who want to help and those who need help. Through the power of collective philanthropy, our goal is to amplify donor intent while remaining flexible enough to ensure that resources are directed to where they can do the greatest good. We know the greater Nashville area. We understand its neighborhoods, its most pressing challenges, its unsung nonprofit heroes, and its emerging partnerships with the greatest potential. As our region continues to rapidly change, that knowledge gives us a unique vantage point to bring people and places together to do what none of us can do on our own—build a more thriving and inclusive community. Mission Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee strives to build a more thriving and inclusive community — today and for generations to come — by transforming thoughtful generosity into positive change. Heloise Werthan Kuhn Scholarship Fund As a mother, grandmother and community volunteer in Nashville, Heloise Werthan Kuhn is an ardent supporter of the Crittenton mission of preventing both first and repeat teen pregnancies. Mrs. Kuhn’s Fund originally was created with Crittenton Services, but when that organization closed in 2001 and set up a Fund with The Community Foundation, she asked that this Fund be transferred as well. Mrs. Kuhn believes that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty that often accompanies teen pregnancy. She established this scholarship to help teen parents develop self-esteem through education or technical training in order to qualify for better jobs.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Applicants are pregnant or parenting teens, living in the State of Tennessee, who are enrolled in or planning to enroll in post-secondary education at an accredited college, university, junior college, technical school, or job-training program as a way to increase their job skills and become more employable.