Meet the Point Foundation's New Class of BIPOC Scholars By Advocate.com Editors Point Foundation Awards First Scholarships Under New BIPOC Program When the Point Foundation, which offers college scholarships to promising LGBTQ+ students, set out to see what more it could be doing to address systemic racism, it couldn’t dispute that for students of color in the U.S., education is still a case of separate and unequal. “When you look at systemic racism in education, the numbers are horrifying,” says Jorge Valencia (pictured), Point Foundation’s executive director and CEO. Young people who Black, Indigenous, or otherwise people of color (BIPOC) often grow up in poverty and attend schools that don’t offer the advanced courses usually required for college admission. Many have to work to support themselves and their families, so if they pursue higher education, it’s frequently by taking courses part-time at a community college. So as the nation reckoned with systemic racism over the past year, the Point Foundation created the BIPOC LGBTQ Scholarship Fund, and now it’s announced its first class of scholars.