Robertson Education Empowerment Foundation (R.E.E.F.) is a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 dedicated to promoting new and innovative programs of investment in education.
The foundation is a resource for higher education

Higher education

Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...

 students that desire alternative financing to financial aid and loans to pay for educational expenses.

Founded by Michael Robertson, R.E.E.F. began its Education Investment program in the Fall 2002 at the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

campus with an initial investment of $3 million. Repayments of these investments post-graduation by students enables more opportunity for the future generations of the University of California System.

External links

• R.E.E.F. Website (archived copy) (What was the R.E.E.F. Website) is currently a site about coral reefs; someone else owns the domain now.)

• REEF Website This is the correct link for the foundation as provided on Robertson's website (although it only produces an error page).