LOS ANGELES – The Point Foundation is inviting LGBTQ students at community colleges to apply for scholarships to fund transfers to four-year degree programs.
Students whose applications for the foundation’s Community College Scholarship are successful will receive up to $3,700, opportunities to network with the Point community, and the opportunity to attend the Point Community College Transfer Symposium in Los Angeles.
Applications will be accepted online beginning March 1.
“Affordability is only one of the roadblocks to a college degree,” stated Point Foundation Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Jorge Valencia.
“LGBTQ students, particularly those from low-income families, immigrants, and people of color, often feel alone as they try to navigate a path to higher education. Point’s goal is to provide LGBTQ students practical guidance and the emotional support that comes from knowing people want them to succeed and are here to help.”
Point launched its Community College Scholarship in 2016 with support from longtime partner Wells Fargo.
Application information can be found online at www.pointfoundation.org/communitycollege.
The 2017 class of Point Foundation Community College Scholarship recipients will be announced in June for LGBTQ Pride Month.
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Babs says
They’re going after our children. Thus far, the homosexuals subverted our military, Hollywood, print journalism, television journalism, public radio, our legislatures, and most of our judiciary. Most recent accomplishment for the Gay Mafia: marginalization of heterosexual marriage, and the legalization of same-sex marriage. Next target in their cross-hairs: public education. They want our children. They know, they can’t get us. So, they’re making a grab, for our children. They realize, if they can effectively displace organized religion long enough to subvert public education, they stand a decent chance of aberrancing and conflicting a good percentage of otherwise straight, normal children, into a sexually deviant lifestyle –
SMHX2 says
Great, another useless bible thumper, go crawl back under your rock and keep living in the 1900’s!
Sara says
The gay mafia, slowly taking control, systematically infiltrating America’s educational institutions for which to normalize sodomy and homosexuality, promote sexual ambiguity. We heard it straight from the horse’s mouth, President Barack Obama himself arbitrarily decree, America is officially a gay nation. Period. And, that’s that. We had no say in any of this, whatsoever –
SMHX2 says
Let me guess, you are one of the hypocrite “bible thumpers” the rest of us despise!
TM says
Everyone wants to be treated equal, yet white people dont have a scholarship or college just for them, and if they did oh crap the crying and protesting it would produce. Its 2017 how about we put an end too all this and allow people to earn on their merit, and hard work.
Tim Scott says
Since I’m on top, how about we suspend anything that makes things easier for those who aren’t?
John says
You can make things easier for people but does it necessarily transform them into successful people? Were successful non-white people all received special treatment or did they simply worked hard to get there? Also, there are many struggling white folks, not all of them are on the top.
Anonymous says
You can be white and apply for this scholarship. You can be white and apply for the BOG fee waiver for community college. You can be white and apply for the Pell grant. Don’t act as if white people are an oppressed minority.
Al says
Sure you can be any color and apply, however If their was a grant called the white scholarship foundation or Caucasian scholarship program it would be considered racist and the whites holding down the minority’s. It’s 2017 nobody in our generation has been a slave, land taken from them or what not. Everyone needs to work hard, focus on school and look ahead on what you want in life and do it. If you can sit on the couch complaining how bad you have it, perhaps you should look in the mirror and take that time and put twords something positive. Rant over, off to work.