Fast Forward welcomes our new Events & Operations Associate, Summer Kennedy I spent my first two years out of college working as a first grade teacher with Teach for America in West Oakland. In my classroom, I saw firsthand how technology could make a huge
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Fast Forward welcomes our new Content and Communications Associate: Maddy Chung. “I’m fascinated by the intersection of social impact and technology,” I wrote in my LinkedIn bio the summer after graduating college. At least I I thought I was–I knew about a few tech nonprofits,
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Fast Forward welcomes our new Strategic Partnerships Associate: Eli Etzioni. Claremont McKenna College didn’t offer a major in social impact studies, so I did my best to create one. For my senior thesis, I interviewed social entrepreneurs working on everything from a micro-volunteering platform to
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In New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, nine social impact entrepreneurs took the Demo Day stage to pitch their bold ideas to radically transform our world. Their visions for scale resulted in a total of over $500,000 in contributions from individual and corporate donors
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As one of Fast Forward’s earliest partners, BlackRock has championed Fast Forward and played a critical role in our Accelerator year after year. This support has enabled us to accelerate 41 tech nonprofits that are positively transforming millions of lives around the globe. What made
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This is the ninth piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring We Vote, a national, digital voter guide that leverages the power of networks to make voting easier. “We’ve seen such a technology explosion since the early dot com days, but there’s been a
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This is the eighth piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring Tarjimly, which means “translate for me” in several languages. It’s January 27, 2017 and Trump’s first Travel Ban has been issued, blocking U.S. entry for citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries and terminating
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This is the sixth piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring UPchieve, an on-demand tutoring app for low-income students. The odds were stacked against Aly Murray. As one of 30 Million low-income children in the U.S., her chances of graduating from college were much lower than
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This is the third piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring Empower Work, an accessible workplace advocate for everyone. Imagine your manager asking you to come to their office for a surprise review. Then, imagine your manager reprimanding you with unexpected, aggressive, and
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This is the second piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring DREAMer’s Roadmap. “Students Like You Don’t go to College” Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca was a model student. Yearbook editor, President of her academy, and lead in the school play… so you can imagine her
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