Non Profit Partner
RICH Learning Global (RLG) is honored to partner with RICH Learning International (RLI), a Minnesota 501(c)(3) non-profit in the “Developing Beautiful Minds” campaign. The goal is to provide an onramp into the future of online RICH Metaversal education to children around the world.
As funding partners with our sister non-profit, RLG is setting the stage for major projects to enrich and significantly alter the educational trajectories of children across the world. The goal is to provide virtual tutors, high speed internet access, and 3D metaverse equipment to give children:
Founded in 2015 by Dr. Wm. C. Nelsen and Dr. Rich Melheim, the RLI has facilitated projects in Minnesota, India, Ethiopia, Egypt and South Carolina.
Meet Our Non Profit Partner
Our 3-Phase Process
Meet Our Chair
As a young man, Dr. Bill became a star athlete, a Full bright Scholar, and an organizer helping with the implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery. That experience changed the direction of his life. A PhD in Political Science, an Academic Dean position, and a University President appointment followed. It was there that Dr. Bill’s talents became a calling that propelled him onto a national and international stage as:
CEO
Scholarship America($5.4B in awards to 3.1M students - the largest private scholarship fund in US History)
Founder
Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund of Scholarship America($187M in awards to 3,800+ children and spouses of those killed or permanently disabled as a result of the 9-11 attacks.
Co-Founder/Former Chair
Wintley Phipps’ US Dream Academy (Mentoring children with parents experiencing incarceration)Early Member
The Registry for College and University PresidentsVice President and Academic Dean
St. Olaf CollegePresident
Augustana UniversityCo-Founder/Chair
RICH Learning InternationalIn Retirement: Ordained as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Bill served as President of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA led the process of a successful affiliation agreement with Union Theological Seminary in NYC.
Dr. Bill’s latest book, Embracing Diversity, cowritten with Darrell Jodock, was recently published by Fortress Press. His next book will highlight stories of people who’s lives were forever changed by grants given by the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund of Scholarship America after the 9/11 attacks killed or disabled their parents
