Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Fast Forward Fund Investor Pitch with a Punch!

Fast Forward Fund held its first Youth-to-Youth Investor Pitch session last week at Bard Globalization & International Affairs program, featuring 7 awesome social entrepreneurs nominated by two of FFF's Premiere Pipeline Partners: Global Engagement Summit and New York Women Social Entrepreneurs. Thirteen FFF Portfolio Student Directors from half a dozen countries probed their peers inquiring about specific tactics (market strategy, growth management plan, service delivery) and personal leadership vision. The diverse social ventures ranged from the Mali Health Organizing Project, catalyzing healthcare solutions in Mali slums (pitched by Mobido Niang & Caitlin Cohen), to Out Against Abuse, an interactive online resource to stop domestic violence in South Asian immigrant communities in the US (pitched by Sabrin Chowdhury). Amazing to see these savvy youth investors in action, and hear from visionary youth leading social investment opportunities across FFF 4 Portfolios: Climate Change & Energy, Poverty Alleviation, Human Rights & Peace, and Health.
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  1. RuzicaApril 29, 2009 at 3:50 PM

    I felt pleasure and privilege to be at the first Youth-to-Youth Investor Pitch session as one of the student directors. As a part of Poverty Alleviation group we had two projects we were considering, Illume and Early Earners, and both were more than we could expect. Unfortunately, Early Earners do not fit criteria of FFF, but we hope they will find investors for great project that they had presented to us.
    Furthermore, I was very interested in some other ideas in other portfolio groups, as Out Against Abuse (www.outagainstabuse.org) and Mali Health Organizing Project (www.malihealth.org).
    I think we are all looking forward to work further on deciding what projects to support and invest in. This is an exceptional opportunity to really decide and help to change something, and I know I will be dedicated in choosing the projects that we all find the best fitting for our goals.
    I found that the pitch session was more than useful for our decisions; especially to personally see, meet and ask questions to project leaders.

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