A decade of building for impact at scale. Of stoking inspiration at Demo Day. Of redefining social-service delivery. Fast Forward is coming up on 11 years of our Startup Accelerator (we can’t believe it either)! Over the last decade, we’ve supported almost 90 tech nonprofits,
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If you joined any of our Demo Days, you saw the 2022 Accelerator cohort shine. (Missed it? Check out the Virtual Demo Day recording for 48 inspirational minutes you won’t regret). The pitches you hear at Demo Day encapsulate 12 weeks of growth during the
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Hope probably isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you think about 2020. But it’s what we – and chances are, the 1000+ people across 40+ countries who tuned in – were left feeling after Demo Day 2020: hopeful. To celebrate a summer
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18 entrepreneurs. 9 world-changing solutions. And the best part: 2 virtual Demo Days where you can meet them. After a summer of learning, growth, and wayyy too many hours on Zoom during our Accelerator, these entrepreneurs are ready to begin chapter 2 of their impact
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In New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, nine social impact entrepreneurs took the Demo Day stage to pitch their bold ideas to radically transform our world. Their visions for scale resulted in a total of over $500,000 in contributions from individual and corporate donors
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Behind every startup success story is a huge heap of failures. (Yep, it’s true.) Few know that better than Fast Forward alumni Peter Gault, founder of Quill, the free, online writing tool for students. When Peter started the Fast Forward Accelerator, Quill had served 10,000 students.
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Demo Day 2018 was, by all accounts, a big success! We had a packed house in both San Francisco and Silicon Valley, riveting storytelling, and massive support for ten world-changing tech nonprofits. The Demo Days, hosted at Box in Silicon Valley and Google Community Space
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Can you guess what tech nonprofit entrepreneurs ask us about the MOST every single year? That’s right, nonprofit fundraising. Despite the fact that all startups – for-profit, nonprofit, and unintentionally nonprofit – must fundraise (sometimes forever) there’s still something about raising philanthropic dollars that sounds
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As one of Fast Forward’s earliest partners, BlackRock has championed Fast Forward and played a critical role in our Accelerator year after year. This support has enabled us to accelerate 41 tech nonprofits that are positively transforming millions of lives around the globe. What made
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Field of Dreams was right with the whole, “If you build it they will come,” thing. If you’re building a tech nonprofit product that will (hopefully… scratch that – definitely!) amass a large user base, be prepared for those users to come running with support
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