This is the fifth feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting Real Talk, a mobile app that provides sex education to middle schoolers via stories presented as text conversations. Sexual health resources, particularly those aimed at youth, are in jeopardy. The National Campaign to Prevent
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This is the fourth feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting IssueVoter, a nonpartisan platform for engaging all citizens in today’s politics. IssueVoter Founder Maria Yuan served as a campaign manager in Iowa, managing one of the most targeted races – an open seat in a swing
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This is the third feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting MindRight, which provides proactive SMS-based mental health coaching to inner-city youth. In inner-city neighborhoods, one in four youth witnesses a murder before they turn seventeen. One third of those young people go on to
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This is the second post in Fast Forward’s 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting the stories of this year’s cohort. Get to know Concrn. If you live in San Francisco or have spent enough time in the city, the following scene is probably familiar to you. You’re
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This is the first post in Fast Forward’s 2017 entrepreneur series. This week, you’ll meet Beyond 12. Stay tuned all summer to learn the stories of each entrepreneur in our 2017 accelerator cohort. College graduation is a worldwide measure of educational success and career
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When Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mississippi, protests arose nationwide and have perpetuated as these tragedies continue to occur year after year. The topic of police killings became hotly contested at the national
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There are over 400,000 young people in foster care in the United States alone. Without the support of a forever family, foster youth are left to navigate life decisions on their own, often amidst the emotional stress and adversity that comes with moving from foster
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As we near the 2017 presidential election, we are faced with a critical dilemma around civic engagement. According to a recent report from The Knight Foundation, only 33 percent of millennial voters report strong trust in their local governments. What’s worse, only 29 percent of
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Ask any elementary or middle school student what they would rather do in the afternoon—play basketball or do math—and it’s almost guaranteed they’ll say basketball, hands down. While it’s no surprise kids prefer playing basketball and talking about their favorite NBA players to solving equations, math
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By 2030 it’s projected that 40% of students nationwide will not speak English at home. With the number of English language learners and non-English speaking parents on the rise, parental engagement becomes a huge challenge. Fast Forward alum Heejae Lim built TalkingPoints to provide teachers
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