This is the fourth post in a series highlighting the alumni of the 2014 Fast Forward accelerator. After witnessing patients walk more than 100 miles to a hospital in rural Malawi to receive care, and experiencing stronger cell phone reception there than in California, Josh Nesbit
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This is the third post in a series highlighting the alumni of the 2014 Fast Forward accelerator. A common misconception about low-income individuals and families is that they have limited access to technology. However, the reality is that more than three-quarters of US 18-29 year
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This is the second post in a series highlighting the alumni of the 2014 Fast Forward accelerator. It is customary in India for the whole family to accompany a loved one to the hospital, where overburdened nurses care for seven or more patients at a
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This is the first post in a series highlighting the alumni of the 2014 Fast Forward accelerator. Motivated by the 2008-2009 global economic recession, a group of UChicago students founded an extracurricular club to provide basic financial literacy and investment skills to low-income students in
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This is the ninth and last post in a weekly series covering each of Fast Forward’s nine tech nonprofits. Millions of parents across the US are disconnected from their children’s academics – 59% of public school parents report never receiving a phone call home in
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Urban youth around the country face many barriers to success, principle among them a lack of education. The pervasive education inequality in the United States starts early and continues through high school, with 81% of high school students graduating on time nationwide but only 9%
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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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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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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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This is the fourth post in a weekly series covering each of Fast Forward’s nine tech nonprofits. In the San Francisco Bay Area, hundreds of companies cater meals for their employees every day. Around the world, thousands of stadiums host enormous events where they feed
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