Shannon Farley and Fast Forward: Accelerating Change in the Tech Nonprofit World

Feb 19, 2017

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Hosted by Phillip Thomas.

Additional music provided by Cosmic Analog Ensemble. 

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Shannon Farley is cofounder and executive director of Fast Forward. Prior to Fast Forward, Shannon was founding Executive Director of Spark, the world’s largest network of Millennial philanthropists. She has been awarded the New Leader’s Council “Top 40 under 40 Award”, The Aspen Institute’s Ideas Scholar Fellowship, and The Women’s Funding Network’s Changing the Face of Philanthropy Award. Under her leadership, Spark won the 2010 Outstanding Foundation Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals and served in the Inaugural Congressional Conference on Philanthropy and Innovation.

Fast Forward looks for product­-driven nonprofits that leverage open source software, always connected mobile devices, open APIs, and inexpensive variable cost web infrastructure to solve education, environmental, health, and human rights issues. Fast Forward then provides financial and human capital to help scale these technology solutions and maximize impact.

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Tune into the interview with Shannon and click through the corresponding slideshow to the left… (Photos courtesy of Fast Forward.)

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