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The Billion Dollar Project® is an international philanthropic
undertaking to spread knowledge acquisition to the third world without cost to the recipients. The Project does not require
money donations or ask for them. In fact, to kick off the project, the Academy committed a million dollars of its
own in the form of services and human capital. This the only kind of donation the Project expects from its volunteer
individuals and organizations. All of the Divisions of the Academy, including CEFE, the e-Education Trust, UpMarketing, and Powered By Global and their associated professionals are volunteers.
Originally created over 30 years ago, the Billion Dollar Project® was envisioned by its creator as an outreach to overcome poverty, hunger, and ignorance in the world. It was conceived as a global project that could harness the power of technology to spread rapid acquisition of knowledge. With the thought that if the Project could accomplish this, it could do wonders never imagined. Unfortunately, the reality in 1977 was that a PC cost $10,000 and there was no Internet. The creator's hope was that someday the dream would eventually bear fruit. Time and technology has caught up and coupled with today's World Wide Web and Internet education technology and program development launching the project, it has been said, "... just kind of ka-chinged into place.”
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