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The 2007 NSPA Scholarship Provider of the Year Awards goes to the Point Foundation and the Ford Family Foundation

Bruce C. Lindstrom
Founder and Chairman – Point Foundation
Keynote speaker of the 2007 NSPA conference on October 4, 2007

FastWeb and the National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) announced on October 4, 2007 at the NSPA conference in Portland, ME that the Point Foundation and the Ford Family Foundation have been awarded the 2007 NSPA Scholarship Provider of the Year awards. This prestigious award, sponsored by FastWeb, recognizes scholarship providers that demonstrate exceptional leadership, efficiency, and impact in their support of higher education. The Point Foundation and the Ford Family Foundation will each receive a monetary award of $2,500 designated for their general scholarship fund.

Point Foundation (Point) is the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit. Point provides financial support, leadership training, mentoring and hope to LGBT individuals who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. The organization provides its scholars with the financial ability to attend the nation's foremost higher educational institutions and its donors and mentors with the rare satisfaction of directly investing their resources and time in future generations of leaders.

Point Foundation believes in rewarding these individuals who endure the daily harassment and abandonment of family, friends, educational institutions and communities with the opportunity of higher education. Through Point's scholarship and community, the organization empowers its scholars and gives them the support and encouragement to excel both academically and personally.

FastWeb, the Internet's leading scholarship search service, helps students make the decisions that shape their lives: choosing a college, paying for college, and finding jobs and internships. FastWeb is a free service and can be found at www.fastweb.com.

The NSPA’s mission is to advance the collective impact of scholarships by informing policy, and to provide opportunities for professional development and the exchange of best practices among scholarship providers. The NSPA is a membership association representing over 200 scholarship providers including private, community, and corporate foundations, colleges and universities, and affiliate organizations engaged in the field of higher education scholarships.