The Capital Stack Game
A 90-minute activity that helps a group understand how equity investment, lending, grants and donor management applies to social enterprise.
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A 90-minute activity that helps a group understand how equity investment, lending, grants and donor management applies to social enterprise.
Participants can summarize what motivates the key decision-makers that control equity investment, lending, grants, large donations and small crowdfunding donations.
Participants experience several types of situations where different capital sources are more aligned or less aligned with the goals of their organization.
Participants can use a capital stack worksheet to begin to solve a need relevant to their organization.
Capital stack worksheet
Role play - Step into the shoes of different decision makers
Breakout groups - Work through a scenario with 4-5 people
Rounds - Discuss takeaways or key scenario decisions using a consent process.
Core roles - Assign a participant-facilitator and a participant-scribe.
Visual puzzle pieces - Use visual metaphors for different capital sources to make them more tangible and less abstract.
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