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Rolling Forward
Gumball Capital is inspiring entrepreneurship for social impact with our microfinance benefit competition — The Gumball Challenge.
Participating teams receive $27 microloans and 27 gumballs from Gumball Capital. After a one-week creativity spree in November, the teams donate any revenue to a microfinance-related organization of their choice.
We offer the Gumball Fund as one option, for students interested in supporting developing-world entrepreneurs through microfinance.
Sign up today to organize the Challenge at your school and start signing up teams! Or check out the Starter Kit for detailed information. Finally, if you're totally pumped for everything we're doing, go ahead and sign up for our newsletter.
Chew on the News
25 June 2008
Gumball has ordered T-shirts, which are coming in this week! Polos should be coming in a couple weeks... Woot!
18 June 2008
Gumball finally went skydiving! From the looks of this video, Bilal, Deanna, and everyone else had a great time!
11 June 2008
A blogger on "Who are Americans?" has written a great post on Gumball Capital and the Gumball Challenge.
4 June 2008
The Gumball group had its year-end banquet at Bucca di Beppo. There was delicious food, great stories, and best wishes to all the seniors graduating - they will be missed greatly!
28 May 2008
Gumball.com has decided to donate the gumballs we need for next falls Gumball Challenge!
21 May 2008
PhoneRaiser and College Kiva have agreed to host the Challenge at their respective campuses! Woot!!
14 May 2008
Follow Up: The Teens in Tech Conference went extremely well and our own Salina was featured in the Silicon Mom blog. Check it out!
12 May 2008
Salina & Jae are presenting at the Teens in Tech Conference on Tuesday, May 13 1-1:30PM.
7 May 2008
UPDATE! The Radio without Borders interview with Here on Earth was a Huge success and if you would like to listen to the interview, click here and then click the "listen" button. Enjoy!
5 May 2008
Gumball will be featured this Wednesday on Radio without Borders. If you would like to listen in, click here and check out the "Ideas Network" (right side of page) from 1-2PM PST this Wednesday, May 7.
28 Apr 2008
Ashoka Youth Venture sent us some cool t-shirts, business cards, and a nonprofit info binder!
21 Apr 2008
Last Thursday Gumball met with Paly High School students to help them form an OC so they can run the Challenge in the fall.
14 Apr 2008
For May 24th, the Gumball group is planning a skydiving trip. What better way to bond than 15,000 feet in the air?
7 Apr 2008
Doreen, Stefanie, & Ayo presented at the Splash Conference Saturday (04/05/08), teaching students about Social Entrepreneurship (and gumballs). Kalvin & Stefanie presented at Aurora Forum's Poverty Conference that day as well. Now that it's Spring Quarter, we're hitting the ground running!
31 Mar 2008
Gumball Capital has proceeded onto the second round of the Uuni "Big Idea" competition, and has a chance to win 20,000 Pounds!!!!!!!! Check out our status here: http://www.uuni.com/bigidea/
18 Mar 2008
Gumball Capital has had its last meeting of the quarter and will be ready to roll with next quarter in a couple weeks! Stay tuned!!
11 Mar 2008
Gumball Capital is participating in the BASES Social E Challenge and just found out that they are moving on to the next round and one step closer to the $50,000 prize!
4 Mar 2008
Great News: The Gumball Fund has loaned over $5000 to 212 entrepreneurs! We want to give a big Thank You to all who made this a HUGE success. On another front, Gumball continues to grow and recently added the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as an Organizing Committee. Gumball also plans to extend the challenge to local high schools for the 2008 school year!
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