Demo Day 2018 was, by all accounts, a big success! We had a packed house in both San Francisco and Silicon Valley, riveting storytelling, and massive support for ten world-changing tech nonprofits. The Demo Days, hosted at Box in Silicon Valley and Google Community Space
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Can you guess what tech nonprofit entrepreneurs ask us about the MOST every single year? That’s right, nonprofit fundraising. Despite the fact that all startups – for-profit, nonprofit, and unintentionally nonprofit – must fundraise (sometimes forever) there’s still something about raising philanthropic dollars that sounds
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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 seventh piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring the Objective Zero Foundation co-founder team: Justin Miller, Blake Bassett, Kayla Bailey, Chris Mercado, Betsey Mercado, and Amy Eastman. Sgt. Justin Miller was in Iraq, deep into his 11-year service in the Army,
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Anne Marie Burgoyne has served on nearly 30 boards throughout her impressive career as a leader in social entrepreneurship. Anne Marie is currently the Managing Director of the Social Innovation Initiative at the Emerson Collective. As an expert in the sector, we’re so grateful that
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This is the fourth piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring Upsolve, the TurboTax for bankruptcy. Walt Disney. Oscar Wilde. Donald Trump. What do these famous figures have in common? They all filed for bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is a luxury most Americans can’t afford,
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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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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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Ready to meet the tech nonprofits in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator cohort? We sure hope so! If you’ve taken part in Fast Forward’s journey over the past 4 years, you’ve likely had the incomparable experience of chatting with a tech nonprofit entrepreneur, or hearing one
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