Waystack Navigator
Waystack Navigator is a professional development experience for those activating the movement of capital through communities. In this game of improv, funders, founders, and impact investors will step into a role, move through a simulated deal, and discover through the live mess of negotiation how braiding integrated capital actually works and what it takes to invest for real change.
“[This game was] essential to understanding all the various roles and who holds relationships. Should be mandatory!” - Managing Partner at Investment Advisory Group
How It Works
Imagine you could bring capital providers across the capital spectrum into the same room to get an impact investment deal done. During this 3-hour integrated capital training, that’s exactly what happens.
Through three acts across discovery, negotiating, and debriefing, you’ll work through a real-world capital challenge.
In this format, you’ll discover the nuances often lost in getting to committed capital - how integrated capital actually moves across grant dollars, debt, equity, and the non-financial resources of social, political, and cultural capital. You’ll get a different take on deal structure, sequencing, and what unlocks what.
Then we unpack everything we discovered together.
What You'll Walk Away With
An embodied sense of what integrated capital is: from catalytic to conventional and everything in between.
Clarity on the roles different capital providers play, and the structural constraints each one carries.
Fluency with the financing and social tools available + a creative structuring cheat sheet.
A felt understanding of where coordination breaks down, who bears the burden of it, and what it would take to shift that.
New relationships formed through this shared experience.
“Very hands on, enlightening experience helping to understand the capital stack!” - Community Based Organization
“A fun experience that makes one realize how complex this can be.” - Family Foundation
Who Should Register
This is for anyone who sits at the intersection of capital and community. Impact investors and asset allocators. CDFI executives and loan officers. Program officers and foundation directors. Wealth advisors with mission-aligned clients. Corporate foundation and ESG staff. Anyone looking to creatively invest and finance impactful missions using integrated capital.
All you need to bring is curiosity and a willingness to play.
Capacity for this session is limited to 15 participants. Register early!
"I have been in several trainings and cohorts related to integrated capital, and this game was by far one of the most effective, creative, and entertaining ways to transfer knowledge about what a stack is, how to create one, and the challenges and opportunities in the real world." - Family Foundation
About Sacred Futures
Sacred Futures is a world-building practice for compassionate leaders bringing emergent visions to life. Through this practice, we create tools and host spaces that help compassionate leaders heal, dream, and create with clarity, focus, courage, and joy. We work at the frontiers of organizational design, capital innovation and systems change.
Waystack Navigator is an educational tool developed through Sacred Futures that uses creativity and play to make the mobilization of capital for good a little more possible, a bit faster and a lot less lonely.
About the Facilitator
Charity is the founder and Principal of Sacred Futures, a world-building practice moving with compassionate leaders bringing emergent visions into reality. As an advisor, designer, and facilitator, Charity builds bridges between worlds by coming alongside compassionate leaders through the design of lasting ventures, investment funds, and collaborative initiatives creating deep and culturally relevant systems change. Since 2018, she has been cultivating this approach to management care with dozens of compassionate leaders. More info on her experience, leadership and writings can be found on her website, www.charitytaylormay.com.
Bring This Experience to Your Organization
Waystack Navigator is available as a dedicated workshop for organizations, networks, conferences and convenings. If you want to bring this experience to your team or network, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out directly and fill out this form to submit an inquiry.