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FAST FORWARD STARTUP ACCELERATOR

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Application Deadline: September 9, 2024

LOCATION: USA

The Accelerator is Fast Forward’s flagship program for tech nonprofits. We bridge the tech and nonprofit worlds, providing training and resources applicable to the challenges only a tech and nonprofit entrepreneur knows. Through the Accelerator, you’ll receive a $25,000 philanthropic grant, build community among your cohort, meet dozens of mentors from the tech & social sectors, and make connections to people who can help you scale. If you’re a nonprofit tech startup, you’re in the right place.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Accelerator is built exclusively for early-stage tech nonprofits. These are organizations that look like typical tech startups—they build tech products—and have selected a nonprofit structure because they are building for impact instead of profit.

Fast Forward’s program is designed to address the unique needs of tech nonprofits:

LEADERSHIP. Tech nonprofits face everything that is hard for a tech startup and everything that’s hard for a nonprofit. To pull it off, the leaders must have steadfast vision and incredible gumption.

LIVED EXPERIENCE WITH THE PROBLEM. People solve problems in front of them. We want to empower people to solve the problems they see and experience.

TECH TALENT. The tech vision should be the driving force of the organization and not an auxiliary program. To successfully execute that vision, tech talent must be in a leadership role.

POTENTIAL FOR IMPACT. Impact is a thorny subject. To get to the heart of an organization’s potential, we ask questions like: Who is the organization primarily serving? If successful, how many lives will be positively influenced? How deeply will the organization impact those lives?

SCALABILITY. Software scales incredibly well. We support organizations with a vision for change that is matched only by the potential for scale.

ALIGNMENT. Fast Forward is a small organization. As such, we choose organizations that we are best poised to help scale.

BENEFIT:

A $25,000 philanthropic grant, build community among your cohort, meet dozens of mentors from the tech & social sectors, and make connections to people who can help you scale.

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LOCAL LETTERS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE: A PULITZER CENTER WRITING CONTEST

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Application Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024, at 11:59 EST

LOCATION: USA

The 2024 Local Letters for Global Change contest is open!

K-12 students: Make your voice heard this fall by writing a letter to a local elected representative that explains the global issue you want them to prioritize, shows how it connects to your local community, and proposes a solution. Through this contest, students can practice global citizenship, civic action, and persuasive writing, all while exploring the underreported issues that matter to them through Pulitzer Center news stories.

The Pulitzer Center wants to read and share your letters. Tell us and the world, what’s most important to you.

ELIGIBILITY:

We welcome entries from all current K–12 students across the globe. Letters may be written in English and/or Spanish. Letters should address a topic within one of the Pulitzer Center’s five focus issues:

Climate and Environment (including climate change, pollution, extractive industries, and more)

Global Health (which includes health inequities, food security, mental health, water and sanitation, and more)

Human Rights (which include racial justice, gender equality, migration and refugees, Indigenous rights, and more)

Information and Artificial Intelligence (including technology and society, misinformation, and more)

Peace and Conflict

Go to the Suggested Stories tab above and choose a story that gives you new information about an issue that matters to you. (All eligible stories are available at www.pulitzercenter.org/stories.)

BENEFIT:

We will select one first place winner and up to four finalists for each issue category. First place winners will receive:

$300 to support global community engagement in your classroom (prize distributed to your class teacher)

Publication of your letter, photo, and bio on the Pulitzer Center website

Finalists will receive:

$75 to support global community engagement in your classroom (prize distributed to your class teacher)

Publication of your letter, photo, and bio on the Pulitzer Center website

All entrants will be invited to participate in a Pulitzer Center town hall event, held virtually in November, to share their solutions with other students from around the world.

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