Fast Forward Accelerator for Tech and AI Nonprofits
An accelerator for early-stage tech and AI-powered nonprofits, combining unrestricted cash with mentorship, curriculum and a Demo Day. Useful for researchers whose tool or evidence product sits inside a nonprofit.
- Indicative award
- from $25k (total award)The page states participants receive "$25K+ in unrestricted funding." No upper bound is published, and the mentorship, curriculum and network access are additional in-kind value that is not costed on the page.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Aug, SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-07 — passed. Kept for reference; check the funder's page for the next cycle.Applications open 17 August 2026 and close 7 September 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT. An application workshop runs 12 August 2026. Interviews October–December 2026, notifications by end of 2026, programme late February to early June 2027.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Applicants must operate under a nonprofit business model and already have a minimum viable product built. A university cannot apply as itself; a faculty researcher's route is as part of the leadership or technical team of the applying nonprofit. Selection weighs leadership, technical talent, scalability and lived experience.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- tech nonprofits · ai for social impact · accelerator · product development · unrestricted funding
- Apply at
- https://www.ffwd.org/accelerator/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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