FROM LEFT: Robert Steele (scholar), Rohan Barrett (scholar), Shane McCall, Mariterese Balthrop, Carl Strickland (co-founder), and Bruce Lindstrom (co-founder).
The Point Foundation announced that two Chicago fundraising events March 24 and 25 raised almost $20,000 in its ongoing effort to offer scholarships to send LGBT youth to college. The Point Foundation provides financial support, mentoring and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. In the academic year 2003-'04, The Point Foundation awarded $132,000 in scholarships to 10 American college students as an investment in a better world for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. In the previous year, $125,000 in scholarships were awarded to eight scholars—six of whom are continuing their educations, and two of whom have graduated with highest honors. Each scholarship covers four years of schooling and awards are based on an extensive testing and review process. Students are afforded the opportunity to apply to and attend any school into which they are accepted.
Rohan Barrett, a Point Foundation scholar, attends the University Of Illinois in Chicago where he is majoring in education. The Point Foundation is located at P.O. Box 261111, Lakewood, Colo., 80226, (866) 33-POINT, www.thepointfoundation.org .