The POINT Foundation was a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco and founded by Stewart Brand and Dick Raymond. POINT was established in 1971, for the role of distributing funds deriving from profits of the Whole Earth Catalogs to innovative and promising ventures. The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC), was an American magazine and product catalog. The foundation's board members were united by concern for the natural environment. 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. POINT took over publication of the WEC from its original publisher, the Portola Institute, by 1980, when the publication had swelled to a 452-page edition. As well, the foundation published a number of mostly periodical offshoots of the WEC. POINT was also a co-owner of an early online discussion platform titled co-owner of The WELL.