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Fidelis College Raises Money to Actually Support Our Troops

April 25, 2011 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Gunnar Counselman’s company, Fidelis College http://www.fideliscollege.com/ , does a few things.

At a basic level, it will help active duty soldiers get a headstart on college educations. It enables them to do the first two years of general education requirements online while still on active duty.

Later, it helps place them at a major university that’s inline with their civilian career goals. And these students won’t fall into the student loan curse, because there’s military tuition assistance during active duty that will help pay for the first two years of credits and the GI Bill to pay for the last two years of college post-discharge.

Sarah Lacy

Full Story: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/fidelis-college-raises-money-to-actually-support-our-troops/

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(Many thanks to Kemble Fletcher for bringing this to our attention.)