Fast Forward welcomes our new Content and Communications Associate: Maddy Chung. “I’m fascinated by the intersection of social impact and technology,” I wrote in my LinkedIn bio the summer after graduating college. At least I I thought I was–I knew about a few tech nonprofits,
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Fast Forward welcomes our new Strategic Partnerships Associate: Eli Etzioni. Claremont McKenna College didn’t offer a major in social impact studies, so I did my best to create one. For my senior thesis, I interviewed social entrepreneurs working on everything from a micro-volunteering platform to
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Two weeks. 25,000 employee participants. $1,059,000 raised for tech nonprofits. That was the incredible outcome of our partnership with the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation during HPE Accelerating Impact: a first-of-its-kind employee giving program enabling tech nonprofits to scale up impact. Every HPE employee received a
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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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By Shannon Farley, originally posted on Forbes.com 7/9/19 There are times when inspiration hits so strongly, you can’t help but take action. That’s exactly what happened to Lisa Wang, who quit her job as a Google Product Manager to build a tech nonprofit, Almost Fun.
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By Shannon Farley, originally posted on Forbes.com 7/24/19 If you’ve spent time in cities like San Francisco, Toronto or New York, you’re likely familiar with the devastating scene of homeless people camped out in doorways and along freeways. But what we don’t see everyday are
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By Shannon Farley, originally posted on Forbes.com 7/9/19 Global air quality is probably worse than you think. In fact, one in every eight deaths is due to air pollution. Enter air inequality, the human rights issue of unequal access to clean air. The term was coined by
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This summer, the Fast Forward Accelerator will host 20 rising entrepreneurs leading 9 solution-focused tech nonprofits. From shedding light on air inequality, to making test prep accessible and almost fun, to building digital bartering systems for informal economies in Latin America, the tech nonprofits in
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By Shannon Farley, originally posted on Forbes.com 5/16/19 It’s no secret that women face greater challenges when raising money. Pitchbook and All Raise reported that for-profit women founders received only 2.2% of the venture money invested in the U.S. in 2018. You’ll find gender incongruence like this in
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When the Accelerator ends, the real work begins. That’s why Fast Forward, in partnership with AT&T, launched our first ever Alumni Retreat this year. Set amongst the Oakland Hills in a big (maybe haunted) mansion, Fast Forward alumni from the past five cohorts gathered to
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