Mark your calendars…Accelerate Good Global is back for a fourth year of tech for good conversation, inspiration, and community-building! On March 17, Fast Forward’s Accelerate Good Global summit will take over The Midway in San Francisco, featuring a morning of fireside chats with social impact
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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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Two weeks. 25,000 employee participants. $1,059,000 raised for tech nonprofits. That was the incredible outcome of our partnership with the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation during HPE Accelerating Impact: a first-of-its-kind employee giving program enabling tech nonprofits to scale up impact. Every HPE employee received a
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By Shannon Farley, originally posted on Forbes.com 7/9/19 There are times when inspiration hits so strongly, you can’t help but take action. That’s exactly what happened to Lisa Wang, who quit her job as a Google Product Manager to build a tech nonprofit, Almost Fun.
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By Shannon Farley, originally posted on Forbes.com 7/24/19 If you’ve spent time in cities like San Francisco, Toronto or New York, you’re likely familiar with the devastating scene of homeless people camped out in doorways and along freeways. But what we don’t see everyday are
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Behind every startup success story is a huge heap of failures. (Yep, it’s true.) Few know that better than Fast Forward alumni Peter Gault, founder of Quill, the free, online writing tool for students. When Peter started the Fast Forward Accelerator, Quill had served 10,000 students.
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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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