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Useful Resources

Intro

The following links and documents should assist you in your ventures throughout The Gumball Challenge (documents coming soon).

Organizing Committee Balance Sheet

The Organizing Committee Treasurer has a pretty important responsibility in managing the revenue of the entire Gumball Challenge.

Competitor Team Balance Sheet

To assist the Competitor Team Finance Officer in managing and documenting his or her team's revenue, we have a Balance Sheet in the pdf/paper copy of the full starter kit.

Gumball Challenge Microloan Agreement

The Microloan Agreement to be signed by both Competitor Teams and their representative Organizing Committees can be sampled in the pdf/paper copy of the full starter kit

Sweet Links

Doodle

Doodle is an online interface that helps you schedule your meetings quickly and efficiently. Using it is simple. First, create a "Doodle" using the company's website: write up a title & description of the event you want to initiate, and then fill in the possible meeting dates and times. This creates a weblink that you can email to all the people you want to invite. Participants then log onto the "Doodle", and fill in which days/times work best for them. The Doodle website keeps an update of all the participants' responses, and determines the day and time that works best for everyone. This useful tool will undoubtedly provide your group with an invaluable asset.

The Facebook

The Facebook is an online social network of over 25 million users, segmented by school, region, or company. It is an important tool for generating contacts, enthusiasm, and interest in microfinance and in the Gumball Challenge. Visit our page!

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the "professional" analog of Facebook. It's a business-oriented social networking site, and as of May 2007, it had more than 10 million registered users, spanning 150 industries and more than 400 economic regions (as classified by the service). We will soon place a Gumball Capital tag on the website to allow people on LinkedIn to donate to Gumball Capital directly.

Kauffman Foundation

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship and improve youth education.

Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation advances systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs. It is especially notable for trying to promote social entrepreneurship, funding the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School in Oxford, and the new Skoll Scholars program (the social-entrepreneurship scholarship equivalent to the Rhodes scholarship). The Skoll Foundation is also funding a new PBS Series called The New Heroes, which is a mini-series that celebrates social entrepreneurs around the world.

Microfinance!

Alleviating poverty
by providing
financial services
to the poor.
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