The POINT Foundation was a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco and founded by Stewart Brand and Dick Raymond.
[1] POINT was established in 1971, for the role of distributing funds deriving from profits of the Whole Earth Catalogs to innovative and promising ventures.
Besides Brand and Raymond, board members included computer engineer Bill English, who became the co-inventor of the computer mouse, and Huey Johnson, former western-regional director of the Nature Conservancy.
[1] One of POINT's first large grants, in 1972, enabled a group of environmental scientists, activists, and Native Americans to attend the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.
[1] POINT was also a co-owner of an early online discussion platform titled The WELL.