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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So you apply to an accelerator program, get accepted and fly out to San Francisco knowing you’ll be in startup bootcamp for 3 months without really knowing what to expect. Sound familiar? Last week we had a great time meeting our 2016 cohort and
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Two and a half years ago we launched our first accelerator program with five tech nonprofits. The 2014 accelerator was an experiment – we were the first accelerator of our kind and in true startup form pulled together all of our resources and connections from
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This week over 70 media publications banded together as part of the SF Homeless Project, a foray into solutions-focused coverage. The project aims to shine light on the issue, and spur change in the right direction. Homelessness is an unwavering problem in San Francisco, and
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The wait is finally over, and we are delighted to announce the nine organizations in our 2016 accelerator cohort. We received over 150 applications this year, meaning our application pool grew 3x since year 1. This represents a significant milestone for us in our mission
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Sometimes it is not our own struggles, but the obstacles overcome by others that inspire us towards social good. George Wang, a second generation immigrant and the co-founder of SIRUM, a marketplace for inexpensive prescription medicine, was born and raised in Ohio. Though his parents
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This past week our Executive Director, Shannon, hopped over the pond to Norway for the annual Oslo Freedom Forum, a gathering of activists, entrepreneurs and global leaders for thought provoking discussions around advancing human rights. Here at Fast Forward, we’re always interested in how we
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Excitement is in the air here at Fast Forward as we near the summer months. Our third class of tech nonprofits begins their 3-month “bootcamp” this July, and we are busy scheduling trainings and mentor sessions with thought leaders and industry visionaries. If you saw our
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