Empowering Financial Learning Through Interactive Play
Explore our bilingual Integrated Capital Card Deck, designed to educate fund managers, investors, and community members on deploying capital for economic justice and community development.
What Are Integrated Capital Cards?
The Integrated Capital Card Deck is a bilingual (English/Spanish) educational tool comprising 121 cards across seven suits. It assists fund managers, funders, and impact investors in learning how to deploy integrated capital to close the racial wealth divide. The deck helps match types of capital, transaction structures, and impact criteria with small businesses and nonprofits contributing to building more just and sustainable local economies.
How to Use the Card Deck
Role Play
Objective: Players assume roles based on randomly selected cards to develop solutions for a given case study collaboratively.
Process: Each player selects a card from a specific suit, such as "Local Stakeholders" or "Transaction Structure." The facilitator presents a case study of an enterprise seeking investment. In their assigned roles, players work together to propose transaction structures and solutions tailored to the enterprise's needs.
Build Your Own Hand
Objective: Players draw from personal experiences to construct a narrative using selected cards.
Process: Participants choose cards representing elements of a past transaction they've been involved in or one they aspire to create. Each player then shares their story with the group, explaining how the selected cards relate to their experience.
Play the Hand You’ve Been Dealt
Objective: Players develop potential transactions based on a randomly dealt hand of cards.
Process: Each participant receives one card from each suit and is tasked with devising a possible transaction based on their hand. Players can trade in up to three cards to improve their hand and then present their proposed transaction to the group.
Benefits of the Card Deck
For Community Investors and Entrepreneurs:
- Discover diverse forms of capital beyond traditional bank loans available to local entrepreneurs.
- Strengthen relationships between funding sources, entrepreneurs, and community members.
- Explore various roles in creating a more equitable and inclusive economy.
For Finance Professionals:
- Learn to integrate impact criteria and covenants into transaction structures.
- Develop fluency in alternative financing models, such as royalty finance and direct public offerings.
- Identify multiple stakeholders’ roles in providing social capital to support entrepreneurs.
Purchase Options
Start your learning journey with your own Integrated Capital Card Deck:
For Funders, Investors, and For-Profit Institutions: $45
For Nonprofits and Community-Based Organizations: $30
For Students: $15
Host a Game Session
We offer facilitated gaming sessions tailored to various experience levels:
- Custom Game Facilitation: Engage in an integrated capital learning journey in person or online.
- Access to Online Resources: Gain entry to our online cards and curriculum, including case studies with teacher’s guides and a facilitator’s guide for hosting multiple formats of Integrated Capital Card games.
Pricing: $2,500 for the full program
“BII’s Integrated Capital Card Game is a fantastic learning tool! It’s a creative, effective way to learn impact investing terms and which types of capital and transaction structures work best for different social enterprises.”
— Deb Nelson
Executive Director, Just Economy Institute
Frequently Asked Questions
What is integrated capital?
Integrated capital refers to the coordinated use of different forms of financial and non-financial resources to support enterprises that are creating social and environmental impact.
Who can benefit from the Integrated Capital Card Deck?
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