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Video Highlights from Demo Day 2014
Over 200 people from the tech community gathered at Google in San Francisco to hear presentations from the first 5 nonprofits to participate in Fast Forward’s accelerator program. Over $250,000 was raised that night in support of these innovative organizations! Check out the highlights:
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Accelerator for Tech Nonprofits Fast Forward Announces Inaugural Class
Fast Forward is excited to announce the organizations participating in this summer’s accelerator program. The groups in this inaugural class leverage technology (open source software, always connected devices, inexpensive variable cost web infrastructure, APIs for most anything) to address health, education, and poverty issues in
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Connecting Cause, Cash, & Context
For the last seven years, I have been the Executive Director of Spark, the world’s largest network of Millennial philanthropists. We invest our philanthropic capital in grassroots, women-led solutions around the world. As technology costs have fallen, I have watched as mobile technology has drastically
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Why I Am Starting Fast Forward
I can pinpoint the moment when the euphoria of selling my first startup evaporated. It was when I heard the words, “You need to get to a hospital. Now.” It was May 2012, and I was taking time off after selling my company to travel
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