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Fast Forward Portfolio Offerings

Current offerings Fast Forward provides to support our portfolio. Learn more in each tab and click on the page you’re interested in.

General Support

Executive Coaching Program w/ Pete Wheelan and Justin Self

Fast Forward Team Office Hours

Bridgespan Growth Planning Consultations

Impact Challenges, Partner Employee Brainstorming

Pro-Bono Legal Support

• Alumni+ Workshop Recordings
• Portfolio Services Digest

Community

Fast Forward Slack

Fast Forward Peer Forums

Hosting at Fast Forward Office

Fast Forward Alumni Retreat

Fundraising Support

Fast Forward Portfolio Discounts & Deals

For Impact Fundraising Consulting

Technical Strategy & Support

Sahaj AI Consultations

Tech Leads Peer Circles

Fast Forward Resources

A list of the current offerings we created to support the tech nonprofit Sector (which includes you!). Learn more about each one below.

Fundraising & Discovery

• **Funding Forward:** Our weekly funding email! A curated list of social impact tech grants, fellowships, opportunities, and resources delivered to your inbox every week. Make sure your team is subscribed. Make sure to share any job listings, big wins, or press in your Slack channel so we can include.
• Fast Forward Tech Nonprofit Funder Database A comprehensive repository of foundations, corporations, fellowships, and more that fund tech nonprofits.
• AI for Humanity Speaker Bureau : Meet engaging speakers who are actively deploying AI for social impact. Each leader is well-versed in AI and committed to seeing our best tech solve our biggest social problems. Reach out to Nicole (Slack or [email protected]) if you would like to be included.
• **Financial Model Template:** A Google Sheets template to get your organization started on setting up a robust and comprehensive budget.
• ‣: Strong examples of exceptional investor updates.

News & Learning

• **What's Good in Tech:** Our monthly newsletter! The latest news from the tech nonprofit sector delivered to your inbox monthly. Every month, we highlight alumni accomplishments, so you have the chance to have your news or job featured. Make sure to share any job listings, big wins, or press in your Slack channel so we can include.
• AI For Humanity: Fast Forward’s newsletter on all things AI in the Tech for Good space. We share stories of AI-powered nonprofits leveraging AI tools to make the world better. We have a lot of well-respected subscribers on this newsletter so please keep up posted on your AI news so we can share it here!
• **The Tech Nonprofit Playbook:** Best-in-class advice from the leaders whose work has transformed the social impact space. Any advice for information we can add? Slack Karly Nelson!
• Fast Forward AI for Humanity Resource Hub : The Fast Forward AI for Humanity Resource Hub is your home for all things AI and nonprofit (think: articles, newsletters, podcasts, and more). This is not intended to be one source of truth on AI for social impact content. Rather we hope it helps the tech nonprofit community stay on top of the fast-moving world of AI for social impact.
• **The Fast Forward Academy:** A treasure trove of actionable insights from our event series featuring tech nonprofit experts. There is content on marketing, fundraising, volunteer structures, and more. These lessons can be useful for various members of your team!

Organizational Support

• Tech Nonprofit Job Board: A job board with opportunities from over 600 organizations leveraging tech for social impact. If one of your listing is not showing up here, please contact Marcus ([email protected]) for support.
• **Pitch Camp:** Recurring events where we teach you all how to craft and deliver a powerful pitch. Through targeted training and hands-on practice sessions with volunteers from top companies, you’ll leave knowing how to effectively tell your story.
• **Nonprofit AI Policy Builder:** A free, easy-to-use tool designed to help nonprofits create their own AI usage policy. In a few steps, you’ll craft a custom AI policy that protects sensitive data, aligns with your mission, and ensures AI is working for good.

Upcoming Events and Opportunities

We will list any upcoming events and opportunities here.

Behind the Scenes

Here are some of the many things behind the scenes to support your work. No need to opt-in to these - you are already locked in, since you are an alumni!

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Funding

• Introductions and Recommendations: We are constantly pitching you to potential funders. When possible, we are more than happy to give a warm intro - let us know! If we introduce you to a potential funder and it turns into $$$, please tell Fast Forward so we can include it in our tracking!
• Award Nominations: We are always thinking about and pitching you. If you’d like us to nominate you for something specific, Slack or email us ([email protected])!
• Applications to Open RFPs, Challenges, Grants, etc: If you’re applying to something, please let us know! We will give a backdoor nudge wherever we can. (It’s also a great idea to post in the #funders Slack channel to see which alumni have applied previously and have tips and tricks to share)
• Funding opportunities: We pass-through funds directly and advocate for this as much as possible. We do this through brokering relationships with foundations and corporate funders, leading Employee Giving Campaigns, securing grants as part of Impact Verticals, and much more. (When we reach out with a specific, data related questions this is normally why ;))
• Support for Fundraising Operations: We’re happy to review pitch materials, grant proposals, strategic plans, growing your fundraising team, donor management, CRM development, you name it. We’re here to help! (Please make sure you send these materials with more than enough time to review). You can tag *@*partnerships **in your organization’s channel.
• Support Building Revenue Models: We can help think through pricing, pitching, building and scaling programs to help grow your org’s revenue - two-sided marketplaces, corporate volunteer programs, etc. we’d love to share what we’ve learned and put you in touch with like-minded alumni who have been there and done that.
• Fundraising Highs & Lows: We know it’s hard work and we get it. If you have a tricky situation or dynamic funder on your hands, we’re here to help.
• Another Fundraising Question?: When in doubt, tag @fundraising in your tech nonprofit Slack channel and that will notify the FFWD fundraising team so one of us can get back to you.
• Fiscal Sponsorship: Fast Forward is happy to serve as a fiscal sponsor for your organization and pass through funding. Please Slack or email us ([email protected])!

Visibility

• Features: We feature alumni in our newsletters. We also tell alumni stories on our Forbes channel, where articles gain anywhere from 1K-13K views.
• Speaking: We pitch alumni to speak at relevant events and conferences. Examples include: All Tech is Human, Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), Fast Forward Demo Day, partner events, and more.
• Pitch Press: We pitch alumni news to reporters when there is alignment and connect alumni with relevant press opportunities. Most of this work is done on the #press-opps_ffwd Slack channel. Be sure to join this channel if you’re not yet in it!
• Social Media: We amplify alumni news on our social media channels. We also created a pipeline for news alumni want us to share via a Slack channel called #like-my-stuff-ffwd
• Award Nominations: We pitch alumni to awards like Mozilla Rise25, Forbes 30 Under 30, and more.
• Another Visibility Question?: When in doubt, tag @marketing in your organization’s Slack channel and that will notify the FFWD maketing/comms team so one of us can get back to you.