Gumball Capital

Cool Stuff
1. Corps members teaching student about microfinance at Palo Alto High School on Friday!
2. Congratulations! Janelle Tiulentino, our two time Challenge Director, has agreed to be next year’s Managing Director
Gumball Challenge
1. UC Davis raised $200 through Challenge
2. UPenn will hold off on the Challenge until next year do to scheduling conflicts and fellow collaborators [...]

Cool Stuff
1. Free breakfast and bi-monthly meeting this Saturday 10-12!
2. Thanks to all those who sent in their reports
Gumball Challenge
1. UC Davis Challenge in progress
2. UPenn postponed Spring Challenge until April
3. Palo Alto High School Challenge on the horizon
4. University of Washington Challenge on the horizon
Finance & Gumball Fund
1. No Update
Business Development
1. Exploring avenues to [...]

Cool Stuff
1. Jessica Jackley gives her full support of Gumball Capital and it’s mission
2. Team Retreat in January 29th-30th, weather permitting
3. Two table top Gumball Machines donated by local high school teacher
4. Working to organize corp visits to local organizations, companies, and foundations that share our similar mission
Gumball Challenge
1. Beijing Challenge proposed by Boston College [...]

Our very own Salina Truong was featured on Cause4kdz. Salina had an internship this last summer working for KooDooZ, an interactive social media site which rewards kids for achieving change around personal or societal challenges. From the article:
“While working at KooDooZ as a summer intern, Salina shared with Tara Treffry, the KooDooZ Community Research Coordinator, how [...]

Cool Stuff
1. PACS (09 challenge t-shirt sponsor) panel discussion at Stanford on the 17th
-featuring Jessica Jackley
-corps and competing teams will show up wearing Gumball Challenge t-shirts!
2. Team Retreat in January, look out for doodle.
3. Gumball.com sent us 17,000 more gumballs for FREE.
4. Going to talk to different banks about allocating interest free loans during challenges
5. [...]

We’ve been in communication with Campus Kiva over the summer and it looks like they’ve added our Challenge and University as resources for students and professors interested in microfinance across the country. Great to hear and attached is the resource in case anyone is interested!
- Travis
Attachment can be found at http://campuskiva.org/learn

Great week for Gumball as we end the month of October. Lots of development on the business development front as we gear up for the Gumball Challenge at Stanford.

Weekly update for the second to last week in October. Lots of new stuff as we prepare for the Challenge!

Hey guys!
Awhile ago, our outreach team sent out an application to Google’s 10^100 Project. They grouped all the ideas into 16 different categories, one of which is focused on social entrepreneurs. Below, there is a list of “Suggestions that inspired this idea”, copied below:

Provide targeted capital and business training to help young entrepreneurs build viable [...]

Name: Erin Parker
Position: Outreach
Tell us about yourself: I’m a sophomore from the Philippines majoring in Economics and minoring in Mathematics. I’m currently the Co-President of the Blyth Fund and an analyst at Stanford Finance. My outside interests are medieval literature, cross country, and historical films.
Tell us something interesting about yourself: I once got stepped [...]