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Team Updates

Michael H. of Gumballerz: The Penny War made about $115-$120. I am still waiting to hear from Wilbur and WestFlo dorms about... Read More >>

Joseph v. of Pong for Poverty: We set up a table in White Plaza...business was slow but we are optimistic to make heaploads of... Read More >>

Kalvin W. of Stanford University: The Stanford Gumball Organizing Committee is incredibly pleased. :-) That's all for now! Read More >>

Anne C. of Burbank: We did an In-N-Out run on Saturday night and made about $40. Read More >>

Travis K. of WellRounded: Tonight we went through the dorms getting change for our cause, Pocket Change for Social Change... Read More >>

Team Updates

Michael H. of Gumballerz posted on 11-15:
- The Penny War made about $115-$120. I am still waiting to hear from Wilbur and WestFlo dorms about how much they are donating to the cause. Each of the EastFlo dorms pledged $10 which gives us a total of $145-$150 (I don't know exactly because the people with the spreadsheet are sleeping right now) for now. Clearly we can't use the money we get pledged after tonight for the challenge, but if we do get any more I'll let you know

Joseph v. of Pong for Poverty posted on 11-13:
- We set up a table in White Plaza...business was slow but we are optimistic to make heaploads of money in the next couple days.

Kalvin W. of Stanford University posted on 11-12:
- The Stanford Gumball Organizing Committee is incredibly pleased. :-) That's all for now!

Anne C. of Burbank posted on 11-11:
- We did an In-N-Out run on Saturday night and made about $40.

Travis K. of WellRounded posted on 11-11:
- Tonight we went through the dorms getting change for our cause, Pocket Change for Social Change! We're working to create the world's tallest stack of quarters, and after tonight, the whole group is exhilarated to continue with the momentum we just developed

Travis K. of WellRounded posted on 11-11:
- We had another amazing night of raising funds. We received another $100 bringing our total to around $300. We received a few more ideas on what we can do to raise even more money for the group before the challenge is over. It is now all about effective execution!!

Debbie L. of World On a String posted on 11-10:
- We sold some bracelets during the hall progressive and came up with a new design for bracelets

Anne C. of Burbank posted on 11-09:
- We made a last minute In-N-Out run and in the matter of half an hour we rounded together enough orders to make an $80 profit for Kiva. We want to do a trip on Friday and Saturday night so if anybody wants to drive, we would love to have your help!

jose V. of WellRounded posted on 11-09:
- Random a Capella performances seem to be effective. Sorry to post this here, but will someone on my team contact me: ihavjc1@stanford.edu. I cannot communicate :(

Michael H. of Gumballerz posted on 11-09:
- Penny wars was pretty slow today. The word really needs to get out! We did end up making $35, bringing our penny war total to about $96. We also have $30 from the east flo dorm pledges. I think I may have accidentally put us as losing $61.47 yesterday instead of making $61.47, so if you could let me know what our thing says that should be great. After this post we should have $96.03 (I have yet to count the house money).

Anne C. of Burbank posted on 11-08:
- We need drivers for Thurs, Fri, or Saturday to go to In-N-Out. Still working on logistics: we're planning on doing our actual project those three days.

Beatrice W. of Destin posted on 11-08:
- Team Yummy Gummy is making posters and flyers, and sending announcements through emails. We will be offering grocery services, haircuts, serenading services, yummy gummy grams, etc. We will be selling drinks during intramural games and hosting a bachelor/bachelorette auction.

Joseph v. of Pong for Poverty posted on 11-08:
- Pong for Poverty is planning on playing pong in White Plaza...for poverty. We have e-flyers made up and plan on distributing immediately.

Ayo R. of World On a String posted on 11-08:
- With some more supplies, World on a String is planning to roll out new designs tomorrow!

Joanna X. of LarkIndestructables posted on 11-08:
- We're in the planning stages; we plan to execute our event on Saturday night. Most of the preparation will probably occur during the day of Saturday so we may not have that many updates until then...

Debbie L. of World On a String posted on 11-08:
- We just finished making more bracelets and will probably be selling them in White Plaza. Contact us if you want to buy bracelets. Debbie: dlee3 or Ayo: laroberts (both are at stanford.edu)

Anne C. of Burbank posted on 11-07:
- We started making plans for our in-n-out trips on thrus, fri, sat night

Dawn H. of Gumballerz posted on 11-07:
- We spent the weekend brainstorming our ideas, and we finally decided to hold a campus-wide penny war. You will (hopefully) get an email from your friendly neighborhood RCC about the details. Today Dawn an I (Michael H) obtained containers for money from the dining staff at FloMo. I am collecting data from the team as to when people can man a table in White Plaza to collect donations from the students and faculty. We will hold the competition from Thursday through Sunday. I am planning to contact the entire campus by emailing all of the RCCs and asking them to forward the message to their announcement lists. Tomorrow will probably not be too eventful, so I may not have much to say, but Thursday's post should be interesting :). For now, peace out. Michael Harris Gumballerz

Michael H. of Gumballerz posted on 11-07:
- FLYER This Thursday, war will break out among the students and faculty of Stanford University. It will not be one of bloodshed or political ambition, but one of helping those in need. It's Penny Wars! From Thursday through Sunday, 11 AM to 5:30 PM, in White Plaza, there will be six containers on a table--one for each of the undergraduate classes, one for graduate students, and one for faculty. Every penny donated to your group's container will earn one point for your group! Every silver coin or bill donated to another group's container will take away points from that group equal to the value of the money (for example, a $10 bill will take away 1000 points!). Each day, the Gumballerz team of the Gumball Challenge will remove the containers and tally up the score. At the end of the weekend, the group with the highest point total wins eternal glory (not to mention the awesome feeling you get when helping a great cause)! Please come out and support Gumball Capital's microfinance efforts! Email any questions to gumballerz@gmail.com.

Travis K. of WellRounded posted on 11-06:
- Last night we went around the dorm asking people to donate their "loose change" to our cause. We ended up raising quite a bit of money and that will be one of our main strategies for raising money!

Travis K. of WellRounded posted on 11-06:
- After deciding what we were doing as a group, Kersten and Jason went to the local hardware store and picked up supplies. We needed pvc pipe, and luckily after telling them what we were doing, they donated $10 worth of supplies!

Ayo R. of World On a String posted on 11-06:
- We went to the Bead Shop today, (one of my favorite things to do and this was the perfect excuse) and picked up supplies to make bracelets! Unfortunately the Bead Shop is not too microloan friendly...