Kiah Williams from SIRUM, Chase Adam from Watsi, and this week Kushal Chakrabarti from Benetech spoke to the Fast Forward cohort about philanthropic rounds for tech nonprofits, where an organization aims to raise a set dollar amount in a specific window of time. While the
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This is the second post in a weekly series covering each of Fast Forward’s nine tech nonprofits. Jessica Ladd, Kate Lazarov, and Kelsey Gilmore-Innis join Fast Forward from Project Callisto, a college sexual assault reporting system and part of Sexual Health Innovations. Callisto empowers sexual
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Pia Infante, Co-Executive Director and Trustee of The Whitman Institute, explained how to navigate interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. Self-awareness is key: leaders and employees must consider how they are perceived and how they impact others, and recognize that few people have an accurate sense
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Chase Adam, founder of Watsi (a tech nonprofit that has crowdsourced healthcare funding for over 4,500 patients in 20 countries) stopped by the Fast Forward accelerator yesterday. Chase gave candid, off-the-record advice from one tech nonprofit to another, and we love that Chase is helping grow the community of
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Impact investors often talk about a new type of investment: patient capital (a term perhaps coined by Thomas Friedman and widely used by Acumen Fund). As opposed to traditional venture capital, patient capital has longer time horizons before investors start demanding a return. For-profit social
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This is the first post in a weekly series covering each of Fast Forward’s nine tech nonprofits. LinkedIn gives us connections, resources, community and advice. All are at our fingertips. Those are essential parts of the career development process for anyone entering the workforce. But
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Last night, after dinner, Fast Forward had the pleasure to welcome Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Chief Technology Offier of DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose.org is an exemplar tech nonprofit that many startups hope to become. With $330M in donations from 1.7M people, an astounding 60% of American schools have hosted projects
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Josh Nesbit, CEO of Medic Mobile talked at the accelerator on Wednesday. His work on last-mile health care started when he had the audacity to jailbreak a Nokia phone. Medic Mobile started in 2009, making Josh a veteran and leader in the tech nonprofit sector.
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On Wednesday, Scott Roen, Managing Director of Global Digital at BlackRock, advised the Fast Forward cohort on effective use of analytics. Scott suggested using analytics in three ways: Product design : you should validate that you’re creating something people actually want Growth optimization : take
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