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The Billion Dollar Project®
Fred DiUlus, the CEO and Founder of Global Academy Online, Inc., (the Academy), announced today the launch of the Billion Dollar Project®. The project is an international philanthropic undertaking to spread knowledge acquisition to the third world without cost to the recipients.
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May 10, 2008 (FPRC) -- Fred DiUlus, the CEO and Founder of Global Academy Online, Inc., (the Academy), announced today the launch of the Billion Dollar Project®. The project is an international philanthropic undertaking to spread knowledge acquisition to the third world without cost to the recipients. To kick off the project, the Academy has committed to donating a million dollars of its own in the form of services and human capital.
DiUlus originally created the Billion Dollar Project® over 30 years ago. He envisioned it as an outreach to third world countries to overcome poverty, hunger, and ignorance, “I had no place to go with the idea,” he said. “Even then as I first put The Billion Dollar Project® label on it, I conceived we could harness the power of technology to spread the rapid acquisition of knowledge. If we could do that I thought, we could do wonders never imagined.” He wryly notes however that, “PC’s cost $10,000 a piece in 1977 and there was no Internet. My hope then was that some day the dream would eventually come to fruition.”
Time and technology, it seems, have finally caught up with DiUlus’ vision. For the past eleven years he has been involved with Internet education technology and program development creating the Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise followed by Global Academy Online, Inc. five years later.. “The project just kind of ka-chinged into place”, he observes and points out the similarity between the project’s objectives and what Confucius said – “If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you show a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.”
According to project director, LaFonda Oliver-Bowen, the VP of Communications for the Academy, “The Billion Dollar Project® offers individuals, educators, trainers, and students the opportunity to volunteer their knowledge and a precious asset to deliver it – themselves. We want to free people from the yoke of ignorance.”
Global Academy Online is known for its development of virtual universities and online curriculum.
Interested individuals and organizations wanting to volunteer to work with The Billion Dollar Project should contact the Academy directly. The project is non-profit and non-sectarian.
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Send an email to LaFonda Oliver-Bowen of Global Academy Online, Inc.
888-431-9991 Ext. 202
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