Alison Pincus is forever curious about new ideas, concepts, and change. For the past seven years, she has been able to funnel this passion by being part of a great organization: One Kings Lane, an innovative home goods e-commerce company. Ali visited the accelerator to
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This is the seventh post in a weekly series covering each of Fast Forward’s nine tech nonprofits. Every year, 100 million children receive vaccines to protect against vicious diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia, yet these diseases continue to kill millions. In India, over 75% of
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For-profits, social enterprises, nonprofits, venture capitalists, impact investors, and philanthropists are all interested in knowing how much good their organizations and their dollars are doing. Most of us want to do the most good possible, and we can’t know whether we’re doing the most good
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We at Fast Forward want to help burgeoning tech for good leaders. We believe that by guiding tech for good programs, we can help them maximize impact and promote the ecosystem of using technology for social good. We have recently interviewed people at companies from
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This is the sixth post in a weekly series covering each of Fast Forward’s nine tech nonprofits. Global warming is one of the biggest challenges and threats in the modern world. Worldwide, we emit about 36,000,000,000 tons of carbon each year (about 100 million tons
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Jim Fruchterman is the godfather of using technology for social good, dating back to 1989 before most technology as we know it existed. In 1989, Jim founded Arkenstone, a nonprofit social enterprise, to produce reading machines for people who are blind. In 2000, the nonprofit
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This is the fifth post in a weekly series covering each of Fast Forward’s nine tech nonprofits. The statistics are scary: by the third grade, 67% of children are not proficient readers, and 80% among low-income families. Adult literacy in the US hasn’t improved in
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As a mission-driven organization, your goal should be, well, to focus on your mission. Financial sustainability can do wonders for an organization, considered by some as the holy grail for nonprofits, promising freedom from the shackles of fundraising, letting you and your organization focus on
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Some simple math can help nonprofits increase fundraising efficiency and decide whether pursuing certain fundraising opportunities is worth it, according to Wen-Chih O’Connell from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Jessamyn Shams-Lau from the Peery Foundation, who recently spoke to our teams about fundraising from
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