This is the first piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring Dost. The familiar Skype ringtone sounded, and Sneha Sheth and Sindhuja Jeyabal found themselves face to face. Between them lay a screen and 8,834 miles. They’d never spoken before, but a friend of
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The late 70s and early 80s were a period of political and economic turmoil in the Philippines. That was right around the time 8 year old Rey Faustino, founder and CEO of One Degree (FFWD 2014), immigrated to America with his family. Born in the
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Fast Forward welcomes Hillary Baker Draper as Partnerships Manager. Below she shares her story: Some might say that I’m a nonprofit super fan. From interning with nonprofits while a student at Tufts University, to participating in an Americorps Year of Service upon graduating, to working for
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Fast Forward welcomes our new Marketing Coordinator: Nicole Dunn. Her story below: Discovering Fast Forward felt like fate. I’ve always been passionate about the potential for creative solutions to solve the challenging issues our world faces. I was delighted to find Fast Forward – an
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Drumroll, please! We’re ecstatic to unveil our new look, which brings our entrepreneurs front and center, and better embodies the work we do at Fast Forward. The website redesign is much more than a cosmetic revamp for us, it’s a significant growth milestone and the
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This is the fourth feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting IssueVoter, a nonpartisan platform for engaging all citizens in today’s politics. IssueVoter Founder Maria Yuan served as a campaign manager in Iowa, managing one of the most targeted races – an open seat in a swing
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Rey Faustino, Founder and CEO of One Degree, is an incredible social entrepreneur as well as an alum of Fast Forward’s very first accelerator cohort. One Degree is like a Yelp for social services: it digitizes critical community resources, enabling anyone to search, comment, save,
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This is the first post in Fast Forward’s 2017 entrepreneur series. This week, you’ll meet Beyond 12. Stay tuned all summer to learn the stories of each entrepreneur in our 2017 accelerator cohort. College graduation is a worldwide measure of educational success and career
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It’s a misconception that fundraising is just a means to an end, because great partnerships aren’t just about the money. Valuable partnerships embody symbiosis between grantor and grantee. They should be as big of a win for the foundation or corporation as they are for the nonprofit on the receiving
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