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Accelerating Urban Innovation Through entrepreneurship and collaboration
FASTFWD – an urban innovations refinery based in Philadelphia, aims to source and cultivate solutions to the world’s most pressing urban challenges. Forged through a winning application to the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge, the partnership between the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, and GoodCompany Group works to redefine urban challenges as business oppor
06/19/2014
The craft of incentive prize design: Lessons from the public sector Prizes are a proven innovation strategy for the public, private, and philanthropic sectors.
06/06/2014
Great video on the first cohort of FastFWD. Apply now to be part of our second cohort at www.fast-fwd.org
Good Company Ventures/ Fast Forward Program Vimeo is the home for high-quality videos and the people who love them.
05/22/2014
With Good Company Ventures - Public Safety Innovation Accelerator presents its inaugural cohort and their proposals to tackle the $152bn public safety market.
05/22/2014
Reception (featuring Code for America Founder and Deputy White House CTO, Jen Pahlka)
05/06/2014
Lessons from our friends at the Rockefeller Foundation
7 Things We’ve Learned About Impact Investing in 7 Years Unlocking even a small percentage of the global markets will dramatically expand the resources available to address the world’s biggest social and environmental problems.
04/08/2014
We got nominated for a Webby Award! Please vote and share!
Who should win a Webby for Web / City & Urban Innovation? Vote now. Vote with me! – April 8th–24th.
03/06/2014
FastFWD's Safecity wins Facebook's Access Innovation Award for crowd mapping incidents of sexual abuse in India.
Blog | Access Access is excited to announce the three finalists to the $10,000 Access Facebook Award, part of the Access Innovation Prize! All three projects aim to deliver human rights or social good outcomes while utilizing the Facebook platform.
Applications for the spring program are now open - we're looking for entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to public safety challenges. Check out www.fast-fwd.org for more info.
11/12/2013
Advisor, Nick Selby from Streetcred Software, Inc, talks about FastFWD on FoxBusiness earlier today!
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Public, private sector team up to make Philadelphia safe Government technology expert Nick Selby on Philadelphia's initiative to improve urban public safety.
11/11/2013
3 Urban Innovations NYC's New Mayor Should Steal Data openness and happiness--coast to coast.
10/31/2013
Truth! And we're completely psyched....
City’s social good accelerator to use former 3rd Ward building as HQ FastFWD will occupy some of the 27,000 square feet space as part of a partnership with Impact Hub Philly, the coworking space that opened in 3rd Ward this fall and will continue to operate there. The 12-week accelerator will host 10 entrepreneurs focused on public safety.
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