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To help it meet its mission of preparing people of color for careers in finance, the Robert Toigo Foundation is partnering with the Student Funding Group LLC to offer benefits for incoming Toigo fellows.

Student Funding, which is a 3-year-old, privately run educational loan originator, will offer its consulting services to prospective Toigo applicants and current participants in its MBA Fellows program. According to Student Funding, areas of counsel will include step-by-step breakdowns on how to finance an MBA using scholarships and both private and public loans.

"One of the key challenges MBA candidates face is navigating how to finance their education," Nancy Sims, president of the Robert Toigo Foundation, said in a release. "Working with StuFund, our goal is to provide ready access to qualified advice and services that will help prospective Toigo applicants, fellows and their families address important finance decisions, as well as gain access to sources they might not otherwise have tapped."

By its own description, the 16-year-old Toigo Foundation "encourages exceptional minority students to consider finance, not only as a rewarding career, but also as an opportunity to be the future leaders in the global economy. Our goal is ambitious: to create a self-sustaining structure that leverages finance as a vehicle to promote positive social change."

Many times, Toigo fellows are the first in their family to attend college or graduate school.