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 tenth piece in Fast Forward’s 2018 Accelerator Series featuring Peerlift, the platform connecting underserved high schoolers to micro-scholarships for college. After winning a collective half a million dollars in scholarship funds, a group of high schoolers found themselves in Atlanta attending a
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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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Field of Dreams was right with the whole, “If you build it they will come,” thing. If you’re building a tech nonprofit product that will (hopefully… scratch that – definitely!) amass a large user base, be prepared for those users to come running with support
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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 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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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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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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