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Maddy Chung

Meet our Content and Communications Associate: Maddy Chung

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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Eli Etzioni

Meet our Strategic Partnerships Associate: Eli Etzioni

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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$500,000 Raised Across Three Social Impact Demo Days

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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We Vote is Taking the Confusion out of Voting

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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From Silicon Valley to Refugee Camps

From Silicon Valley to Refugee Camps

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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