In 2014 I paid over $1,000 a month to live in an apartment that my roommates and I eventually referred to as the “rat infested fire trap.” Of course, the apartment seemed fine at first glance, and with competition and property prices at an all-time high, we
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There are 1 billion people in the world who will never see a doctor in their lifetime. Neha Goel, Amal Afroz Alam and Emily Eggert teamed up at Johns Hopkins through the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design to build a solution to the massive gap
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Growing up, most kids dream of having a super power. Whether it’s spinning webs like Spiderman, flying like Superwoman, or—being a ’90s kid myself—casting spells like Harry Potter. But today there’s a new super power youth seek, and it’s a power with far more utility than
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The Internet has changed almost every facet of our lives. The way we consume content, the way we get to work, the way we exchange money. But what if governments and organizations made decisions according to the opinion of the Internet? That’s the vision behind one
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Over the course of this year’s program, we’ll be featuring weekly interviews with the founders of each tech nonprofit in our 2016 cohort. This past week we sat down with Michelle Brown, founder of CommonLit, a digital resource that equips educators with high-quality, standards-aligned literacy tools to help
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This is the fifth post in a series highlighting the alumni of the 2014 Fast Forward accelerator. Pharmacies, hospitals, manufacturers, and wholesalers throw away $5 billion dollars of unused medicine every year. From this frustrating fact, SIRUM was born. With experiences in health care, from
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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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