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FAST FORWARD FUND, pioneering youth-to-youth social investment
to be announced at 2nd Annual Clinton Global Initiative University Meeting
February 14th, 2009, Austin, Texas: FAST FORWARD FUND (FFF) will be launched at 2nd Annual
Clinton Global Initiative University, amidst 1000 university students, 100 college Presidents, leading
social entrepreneurs, and celebrity-activists including Matthew McConaughey and Natalie Portman. Former
President Bill Clinton will announce the program at a press conference in Austin.
The FFF enables youth to direct philanthropic capital to youth-led initiatives for global change.
Through peer-to-peer investments, FFF catalyzes youth giving to address the most pressing global challenges
faced by this generation and our time: climate change & energy, poverty alleviation, global health, human rights
& peace. FFF aims to transform young people into social investors for life, mobilizing this generation’s financial
resources, passion, energy, and drive to advance global sustainability & human dignity. FFF envisions a new
generation of global citizens embracing social investment as action to shape the global agenda of our times,
and create a vibrant, sustainable future.
“We believe Investing is Action,” says Diana Ayton-Shenker, FFF co-founder & President, “young leaders
today have the capacity, energy and imperative to truly drive global change as social investors.” As a champion of
investment activism, Ms. Ayton-Shenker, Senior Fellow and Faculty at Bard College’s Globalization and
International Affairs Program in NYC, is thrilled to be launching FFF at CGIU, saying “While we often turn to
our leaders for inspiration, CGIU & FFF remind us that we must look at each other, and at ourselves for
action.” This is the promise and opportunity of FFF: young people themselves becoming social investors to help
each other solve global threats
http://fastforwardfund.org/fff_press_release_2_11_09.pdf