Partner with Life Capital

Building stronger communities through partnership.

Life Capital works with schools, universities, nonprofits, businesses, municipalities and international organizations. Teenagers have played tournaments on the Life Capital methodology in Vienna (2024), Kyiv, Frankfurt and Ottawa (2025), and Ottawa and Irpin (2026); Geneva is next, in October 2026. Each one is on the register with its date and venue.

The NGO «Діловий клуб „Партнер“» (Business Club Partner), the Ukrainian rights holder of the methodology, organized the Kyiv stage, and together with the Financial Literacy Ambassador League the Vienna and Frankfurt stages and, with Rotary and community partners, Ottawa 2025. The Ottawa stage of March 2026 was run by the programme’s founder with Rotary clubs and community partners, three months before the Canadian company was incorporated. Every stage except Irpin has its own page with photographs from the day.

The hall of the 1st International Life Capital Tournament in Vienna, April 2024, with the tournament screen and the audience.
Vienna, April 2024: the 1st International Tournament, twelve countries on the entry list.
Who we work with

Life Capital works with schools, universities, nonprofits, businesses, municipalities and international organizations. Together we build educational programs that help people plan stronger futures through financial literacy, leadership and practical life skills.

Partnership can take the form of:

  • educational initiatives;
  • community programs;
  • youth development projects;
  • corporate learning programs;
  • international tournaments;
  • research and impact initiatives.

The simulation gives young people a safe place to practise: about forty years of life in five hours, run by a trained adult, with every decision written down and its cost visible at the table. Two groups sit at the centre of this work as it exists today:

  • Ukrainian teenagers displaced by the war, in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Canada. Vienna and Frankfurt brought together teams from Ukraine and Ukrainian teenagers living abroad.
  • Teenagers still in Ukraine, in schools where the clubs kept running through the full-scale invasion.
What has been done
EventDatePlaceScaleInstitutional presence
1st International Tournament26–28.04.2024Vienna, Austria12 countries entered, 5 teams in the standings; winner: Team GermanyAmbassador of Ukraine to Austria; a representative of the Ministry of Education and Science; Deposit Guarantee Fund; Rotary in Ukraine
1st All-Ukrainian stage, FinGameUA-202521.03.2025Kyiv — Vadym Hetman KNEU6 teams, 36 players from Cherkasy, Odesa, Ternopil, Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast; first place: the Kyiv teamround table with the National Bank of Ukraine, the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the Ministry of Education and Science, hosted by the KNEU Faculty of Finance
2nd International Tournament25–27.04.2025Frankfurt am Main, Germany7 teams, 42 players, hybrid; winner: team from OdesaMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science, Deposit Guarantee Fund and Rotary District 2232; co-organized with Rotary Club Kharkiv Friends; the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Money Museum in the program
1st Canadian national stage26.04.2025Ottawa — Carleton UniversityOttawa, Calgary and Regina at the same timeCarleton University as venue partner; supported by Rotary District 7040 and Rotary District 2232
2nd National Youth Financial Literacy Tournament — FinGame UA 202614.03.2026Ottawa, Invest Ottawa36 registrations; Ontario, Quebec and Alberta (Arnprior Today)Founders Circle Sponsor ECIVDA Financial Planning Boutique; Rotary District 7040, Rotary District 2232 and Rotary Club Kharkiv Friends on the stage banner; run as a Global Money Week 2026 event
2nd Ukrainian national stage26.03.2026Irpin — State Tax Universitywinners of the regional stages; the winning team represents Ukraine in GenevaState Tax University as venue; run as a Global Money Week 2026 event (Teren, 27 March 2026)
3rd International Tournament31.10.2026Geneva, Switzerlandupcoming — Geneva, October 2026
School clubsongoingUkraine196 school clubs opened in Ukraine (end of 2025)more than 30 clubs in Kharkiv oblast in January 2024 (Rubryka); the Deposit Guarantee Fund's National Financial Literacy Project, launched in December 2019, was run with the NGO «Діловий клуб „Партнер“» (Business Club Partner)

Each stage with a page of its own carries the full partner list there. The Irpin stage is in the tournament register.

Checked by other peopleLinks checked 22.09.2026
17 Mar 2026Arnprior Today · myFM What's Good in the Valley: Life Capital — from its introduction in Carleton Place to National Tournament in five short monthsIndependent record of the 2nd National Youth Financial Literacy Tournament at Invest Ottawa on 14 March 2026: teenagers from Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, and a winning team that earned a trip to the international Life Capital competition in Geneva. arnpriortoday.ca 14 Feb 2026krivbass.city Криворізька молодь двічі представляла Україну в Європі: в місті відбувся регіональний турнір з фінансової грамотності (in Ukrainian)The Kryvyi Rih regional stage of 13 February 2026, twenty school clubs in the city, and confirmation that its students represented Ukraine at the international stage in Austria in 2024 and in Germany in 2025. krivbass.city 2025 · issue 38«Вчені записки» КНЕУ · peer-reviewed, DOI 10.33111/vz_kneu.38.25.01.09.061.067 Фінансова грамотність майбутнього на прикладі кейсу клубу фінансової грамотності (in Ukrainian)An academic case study of the Kryvyi Rih club: partners were the NGO «Діловий клуб „Партнер“», the Deposit Guarantee Fund, the city executive committee, PUMB and the State University of Economics and Technology, and its pupils took second team place at the first international tournament among students from twelve countries. vz.kneu.ua

The full register of outside mentions, with every link and date, is on the press page.

Who we are

Life Capital in Canada is run from Carleton Place, Ontario, by LIFECAPITAL GLOBAL INC. — an Ontario business corporation with share capital, incorporated on 24 June 2026, Ontario Corporation No. 1001657335, Business Number 770523173. Its founder, Olga Ialovenko, wrote the English-language version of the simulation. She holds an MA in economics and an MA in psychology, is a Maxwell Leadership trainer and a Rotarian.

The programme in Canada is older than the company. The Canadian stages of 2025 and the Ottawa stage of 14 March 2026 were run by the founder with Rotary clubs and community partners; the company was incorporated in June 2026 to put that work on a formal footing, and it runs the Canadian sessions and stages from that date.

The methodology was created in Kharkiv in 2017 by a team of authors. Its rights holder is the NGO «Діловий клуб „Партнер“» (Business Club Partner, ЄДРПОУ 42145229), registered in Kharkiv on 18 May 2018. That NGO holds the rights, runs the Ukrainian school clubs and the national tournament in Ukraine, and organises the European stages with the Financial Literacy Ambassador League — a professional association set up by Ukraine's Deposit Guarantee Fund under an agreement of 9 September 2021.

Sponsorship here is commercial. LIFECAPITAL GLOBAL INC. holds no charitable registration in Canada, is not a qualified donee, and issues no charitable receipt for anything you pay. What you receive is an invoice and the record described below. A receipted route is possible through a partner organisation that holds charity status; if your process needs one, say so in the enquiry and the reply says whether we have one to offer for your event.

The Rotary record

Rotary is the reason several of these events happened. Named in the Vienna tournament report: PDG Vira Syryamina and PDG Sergii Zavadskyi; Myron Uhryn, District Governor, District 2232; District 7040 (DG Pardeep Ahluwalia); and the Rotary Clubs Kharkiv New Level, Pivden New Level, Kharkiv Mriya, Kyiv-City, Kyiv-Sophia, Genève International, Cataraqui-Kingston, Cornwall Sunrise, Montreal-Lakeshore and Gig Harbor Midday.

If you are a Rotary club considering this: the pattern that has worked is a club funding participation for a group of teenagers in a tournament, and being named in the event report alongside the clubs above.

What you can fund
WhatWhat it coversWhat sets the figure
Participation for a group of teenagers in a tournamentplaces, materials, and the local logistics that let a group take partthe number of players and the travel each one needs
A national tournament stagevenue, Trainers and Bankers, boards and materials, coordinationtables and sittings, Trainer and Banker time, venue and materials
A school club for one school yearteacher training, kit, methodological support across the yearthe teacher's training, one kit per school and the support across the year
Trainer training in a new country or cityputting a certified Trainer where there is currently no onethe size of the cohort and its supervised practice

Each item is quoted from the lines named here, and the figure with its breakdown comes in the reply to your enquiry. Tell us the group size and the city and the reply carries a number.

What a funder gets back
  1. A named place in the event record. Every tournament has its own page listing organizers, partners and supporting clubs by name. That page stays up.
  2. Photographs. The 2026 Ottawa stage has a full photo set, credited to its photographer; the earlier stages carry the organizer's photograph from the day on their own page.
  3. A written report on the event you funded — what took place, where, how many participants, from which cities and countries, who won.
  4. Presence at the event itself, where the format allows it — previous tournaments have had an ambassador, ministry representatives and university hosts in the room.

If your process needs an outcomes report, name it in the enquiry and we reply with what we can produce.

What happens after you send it

Become a Partner

  1. Confirmation on screen; a person replies from info@lifecapital.ca.
  2. A reply from a person with: the cost breakdown of the item you named, what it covers, and what the report on it would contain.
  3. A call if you want one. Name the documents your process needs in the enquiry, and the first reply says which of them we can send.