The Money Game® – Get It Here!
how a Unique kids Money camp
Revealed the Obscenely Simple Secrets to Teaching Kids (and adults) How to Grow Up
Rich and Rewarded.
Dear Teacher or Youth Leader,
If you’re looking for a unique, action-packed, information-rich, imagination-igniting financial education program for your youth or adults, ages 8 to 108, who need to learn basic financial literacy principles, you’re in the right place.
Imagine for a moment that the world of money is simply a game and that all you have to do to win the game is learn, and use, the rules to that game…wouldn’t that be an amazing place to live from?
Well, guess what? Money really IS just a game and if you learn the simple, time-tested rules that financially free people use to get, and stay, financially free…YOU can be financially free, too. Honestly…it’s not rocket science as they say…but there are some hard and fast rules to the game that everyone needs to know.
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“Just wanted to say we had HEAPS of FUN playing the Money Game. Because it was my first time, and I wanted to be sure all the kids ‘won’ – I opted for the short version where they received $200 for each asset they owned. I chose to make the kids ‘work’ for me at the start of EVERY round. ( I used a whistle and would shout out Monday/Tues/Wed…. every 10 seconds or so). I even made them do ‘overtime’ on Saturday one day which led to a very interesting discussion. I also made the kids who were ‘free’ sit out when the others were still ‘working’ when they were busy doing star jumps etc, to make a bigger impact. Then, when they were ‘all’ free they could decide if they wanted to work or not … and this time they could CHOOSE their work- which of course led to really good discussions around working by CHOICE at something YOU like doing. NOW I am just trying to find a way that I can do this FULL TIME so that EVERY kids in my city at least will have experienced the MONEY GAME.” Anita from New Zealand! |
And now…with the introduction of the amazingly effective financial education game that we call, The Money Game™ you can teach kids and adults about money in a way that is fun, relevant and effective.

Be part of the solution
…Improve financial literacy across America
My name is Elisabeth Donati and I’m the creator of The Money Game™. I’ve been delivering a powerful financial education curriculum called The Money Camp and Camp Millionaire since 2002. I developed the program after realizing in my mid-30′s that the only reason I didn’t understand money was because no one taught me about money!
I made a commitment when I started the camp to create a truly remarkable way to teach the world ‘how money works’ and I’m happy to finally exclaim, “I’VE FIGURED IT OUT!”
I don’t have to tell you that we have a HUGE financial ILLITERACY problem in America that must be solved. The signs are all around us…
- Adults are in debt up to their eyeballs, and beyond, because THEY don’t understand how money works.
- Governments are struggling, laying off employees, cutting hours and raising taxes trying to make up for ‘the down economy’ because most of the adults who run them understand money and finances either.
- Our federal government makes it all but impossible to teach kids the life-skills they need to be successful because all of the teaching mandates (and testing) of subjects we barely remember as adults.
Parents think schools should teach kids about money; schools think it’s the parent’s responsibility. I think it’s both.- Even when states vote to make financial literacy mandatory, rarely are there funds to teach it and what IS taught is often boring, inadequate and delivered in a way that makes it dang near impossible to remember when it matters later.
- Many teachers are uncomfortable teaching a subject they don’t understand and aren’t actively practicing, like investing in assets, creating passive income streams and saving for financial freedom day (instead of retirement day).
- The many teachers who ARE committed to teaching their students about money are approaching the subject with boring, inactive curriculums and rarely cover the financial lessons we most need to learn…i.e., the investing piece!
- All you hear people talking about is jobs, jobs, jobs. It’s not JOBS that are going to get people free…it’s teaching entrepreneurship and showing kids how to be the CEOs of their own lives.
How a Painful Realization Morphed into My passion and purpose
I had three painful realizations in my mid-30′s. First, I realized that I knew almost nothing about managing and investing my money.
Second, I realized I was going to have to teach myself how to manage and invest for my own future.
And third, I realized I was not alone. Everyone I talked to seemed to be in the same boat…and it was a very BIG boat.
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Have you ever heard the phrase “reticular activation”? Well, it means that once you become aware of something, you see that something everywhere! Like when you buy that fancy new car that was just released and on the way home, you see 10 of them!
Well, when I became aware of how much I hadn’t learned about money and investing when I was a kid, or in high school OR in college, I became acutely aware of how very FEW of us are ever taught about money.
I started to notice that people everywhere were talking about money…in the store, at the gas station, at parties, IN A BATHROOM STALL on the cell phone. I was shocked. People were lost in the world of money with no roadmap of how to get home, score a run or win the game.
The wise man who inspired
the passion in me to make a difference
It was during this time that a retired business attorney named Walt, inspired something deep inside my soul by writing a letter to the editor in our local Santa Barbara newspaper. Having helped take several companies public over his career, Walt knew a thing or two about money.
In his letter, Walt chastised the residents of Santa Barbara for not having enough money to buy a home (real estate in ANY economy is expensive in Santa Barbara). Walt said, “If you’d BEEN doing with your money what you SHOULD have been doing with your money, you’d HAVE enough money to buy a house…even in Santa Barbara, CA!”
But it wasn’t this little scolding that hit me square in the heart…it was his last paragraph. He said, and I paraphrase, “And when, as a nation, are we going to start teaching our children about money?”
I stopped dead in my tracks. Something struck me deeply and I knew I had to do something about it. I just didn’t understand why financial education wasn’t taught in schools and I was frustrated because even though I got mostly A’s in high school and in college, I didn’t know how to use this basic substance we need to survive, and THRIVE, in life.
A couple of hours later, I stood up at work, and to my fellow employees and the world, asked, “Why doesn’t someone just create a money camp for kids in the summer where they learn what none of us are taught in school?”
Well, guess who the Universe put in charge of hosting that first Money Camp for Kids? Yup…I felt as if a giant magic wand had been cast my way and the whole world said, “Why don’t YOU do it!”
The rest is history. I started The Money Camp for Kids with the simple idea of putting on a summer camp to teach kids about money. We had 39 kids! The next year we did four camps. The following we did six. Then people everywhere, finding us on the internet, wanted me to teach them what I was doing. So, I created the five-day financial education Train-the-Trainer event that empowers others to do what I started here in Santa Barbara.
We later changed the name to Camp Millionaire (to better appeal to our market…the kids) and in 2006 started creating what is now the foundation of every program we teach…The Money Game™.

Games are the best way to learn and the easiest way to teach
I didn’t want to create another boring financial literacy program. I had ordered most of them online (most are free AND you get what you pay for) and found them dull, irrelevant and many of them completely inadequate…they didn’t teach children what I knew children needed to learn to be REALLY successful in life. The existing financial literacy curriculums didn’t teach the information that I wish I HAD LEARNED when I was young!
Things like…
- Basic financial principles most financially free people learn and use regularly…like Pay Yourself First, Put Money to Work For You and 24 more!
- Not making money mean more than it is…a tool to reach our dreams, and help other people reach theirs.
- How to shake hands properly and why doing it correctly is important in life.
- Why keeping agreements is critical in both our business and personal lives.
- How to create, and reach, both short-term and long-term goals. After all, what good is it to teach kids how to SET goals if you don’t show them the secrets to reaching them?
- How to THINK about money, abundance and wealth in ways that support your goals (this was a biggy for me).
- Why and how we waste much of our financial resources on something I dubbed Piddlyjunk.
- Why and how to create passive income streams so you can eventually become financially free and only work because you want to (and it doesn’t involve getting a J.O.B.).
- And one of my favorites…why giving back and doing good with your extra money is so vitally important to having enough of it in the first place. (It has to do with an abundance mentality.)
I also wanted, more than anything…
- To invite kids to think differently about money and wealth and teach them HOW to create fantastic lives because they could think differently. This is one of our most important Creative Wealth Principles…
- I wanted kids to question why they were making the financial decisions they were making…not just to do things because others were doing them.
- I wanted kids to replace the belief that, “I have to get a job” with thought like, “I wonder what business I can start? I wonder what service I can provide? I wonder how I can make the world a better place and make money in the process?”
- I wanted kids to know that financial freedom is their responsibility so they wouldn’t grow up dependent on parents or ‘the system’ that has been created for too many generations of victims.
- I wanted kids to know that financial freedom starts by making a choice to BE financially free.
But I realized that in order to do these things, kids had to know they COULD make these choices.
I love empowering people to be responsible for themselves…not be dependent on someone else…not blame someone else for where you end up in life…but to know that your current situation is the sum total of every choice you’ve made before.
“Empower others to be responsible
For themselves…and the world.”
At the end of our first Money Camp for Kids, parents were thrilled, the kids had learned financial principles they could begin to practice immediately and that would last them a lifetime and I was pleasantly exhausted and satisfied beyond measure.
Who knew that my simple idea to create a financial literacy camp would eventually give birth to a financial education revolution.
You see, our camps aren’t great simply because of WHAT we are teaching…they are highly effective at getting the principles we teach to stick because of HOW we teach.
The Camp Millionaire™ program and The Money Game™ are a visceral experience for kids, teens and adults of all ages because we us the most powerful teaching methods available…commonly referred to as accelerated learning.
Participants do more than listen to the lessons…they act the lessons out…we wear costumes…and hats. We tell stories and use music. We give the kids moolah for great questions and answers, for participating at a level 10 and a whole lot more.
One of the frequent comments we hear…
“It was way more fun Than I thought it was going to be!”
The attendees see the information in a whole new way…they experience how money works in real life. They repeat powerful phrases and are rewarded for remembering (and they never take a single note!). They truly learn by doing…Camp Millionaire and The Money Game™ is activity-based from start to finish.

MONEY HABIT #1:
When participants get their Paycheck they learn to
Pay Themselves First BEFORE paying their expenses!
The best part about The Money Game and the way we teach our programs is that we CELEBRATE everything…with claps and snaps and this fun thing we do called “A Good Job!” Just imagine how school might have been different for you had your teachers and fellow classmates celebrated when you did something well!
The Key…Creating a Financial Education game
where the kids are the pieces
In the beginning, people kept telling me to build a board game. I didn’t want to go that route because there were already great financial board games out there… Monopoly, Cash Flow for Kids, Money and a few more.
But one day, walking on the beach, I had this thought…
What if I created a game where the KIDS ARE THE PIECES?
I initially had no idea what this would look like. But over time, The Money Game started to evolve.
First, as stations where the participants paid their expenses…then we taught them how to buy assets with the money they saved from Paying Themselves First and then giving them Passive Income for owning those assets.
We noticed we were creating powerful money lessons AROUND the game instead of the game simply being part of the camp. We loved it. The kids loved it. And guess what? The ADULTS who attended our adult programs loved it. Talk about an ah-ha!
So in The Money Game, the participants are the pieces. They move around the game board of life using their money as they would in real life and they learn the lessons because they are ‘doing’ it…the lessons are so visceral YOU CAN’T NOT GET IT.
I came to realize that we had created what I personally believe is the best financial program on the face of the planet.
Why am I sure of this? Because every time I do a camp, adults and kids tell me so. Because the people who attend our five-day Train-the-Trainer program to learn how to use the game and teach the program leave in awe…scratching their heads as they say…”What I would give to have been able to attend a program like this when I was young.”
A profoundly life-altering experience for adults
in one of those Slap your forehead
“Ah-ha” sort of ways!
Now you might think this game is only for children and teens. WRONG! As profound a financial education program as it is for kids, it is even MORE PROFOUND for adults. Here’s why…
When you teach a child something for the first time, it’s laid on a blank screen. You’re installing a new program on a virgin hard-drive, so to speak. Kids just say, “Oh, I see. Cool.” And they go on with their lives. We expose them to new and exciting information about money and wealth creation and they now get to decide how to use that information going forward.
Adults, on the other hand, not only learn the basic financial information they didn’t learn as kids, but have a deep realization that they missed out on something huge…
“If only I had known this years ago!”
“Why didn’t anyone teach me this stuff!”
“I can’t believe I never learned the power of Pay Yourself First!”
“Why didn’t anyone explain WHY I should start saving and investing early?”
Adults have highly-emotional responses to the lessons they learn playing The Money Game. And even though the numbers in the game are conceptual…heck, rent is only $300…the lessons are real and life-altering for adults who don’t understand money.
Critical Financial principles and the
right attitude about money lead to financial freedom
The simple financial principles and habits that The Money Game™ teaches aren’t rocket science…but they are the building blocks of financial freedom that most of us miss in our youth. They are the same time-tested financial principles and habits that most wealthy people use to get wealthy and stay wealthy.
financial Principles like These…



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Here’s why Everyone’s Raving about the money game…
- It’s experiential…even kids ‘labeled’ with learning disabilities learn from this highly active financial game.
- It has been used to successfully educate youth and adults for since 2005.
- For people who learn from the program or learn how to teach it, it changes the face of financial literacy education forever.
- It includes 5 simple accelerated teaching secrets that guarantee to improve the way your students learn…over night…no matter how young or old they are (or what you’re teaching)!
- It teaches the secret to creating financially free adults who will never use the word RETIRE!
- It shows you how to simply and easily make sure your students eventually move out and stay out after they leave home.
- It teaches the same secrets that wealthy families teach their children when they want to make sure they know how to be good stewards of their inheritances.
- It explains how to quickly and effectually teach a room of students (young and old) basic money principles they must know to be financially successful.
- People call this ‘the best’ financial literacy program because our participants don’t take notes, learn with their whole bodies and the lessons they learn about money and investing last forever.
- The only financial literacy game program that can be modified easily…
…to fit age groups from 8 years old to 108. Really! Think about it…if you didn’t learn about money when you were young, you still need to learn the same basic financial foundation before learning anything else.
…and taught in any length program…from 3 hours to 5 days or longer.
…can be presented in numerous formats (1 hour a day for many weeks, once a week for any number of weeks, every day for an hour for a week, etc.
…as a stand-alone program or under an existing education umbrella.
…for use as traditional school programs, home school curriculum, day camps, after school programs, church youth groups events, youth leadership events, nonprofit youth organizations, homeless shelters with families, foster care youth.
…for use in an employer sponsored financial education program for employees (Note: Don’t want to teach it yourself? Hire one of our Creative Wealth Coaches to come in and do it for you.)
- Easy to alter for any culture or age group.
- Very easy to expand by adding additional activities to add more value to the participants and get more important financial lessons under their belts.
Testimonials to The Money Game’s Powerful Ability
to Teach People of all ages about money and investing
Here’s what teachers, our trainers, parents and our attendees have said about playing The Money Game…
Teachers Love The Money Game and The Accelerated Learning Techniques…
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Note: Our Train-the-Trainer program is as much about HOW we teach as it is WHAT we teach (The Money Game and curriculum). When professional teachers attend our training, they are positively flabbergasted to take home these new teaching skills…skills that every one of them has reported back as helping them become awesome teachers!
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Our Creative Wealth Coaches Love That The Money Game is an Integral Part of Camp Millionaire and our Money Game Event Days and Weekend.
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Parents and Students Love The Money Game because they know their child will be able to move out and stay out!
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And Best Of All, Our Participants (young and old) Love The Money Game…
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So Here’s What You Get When You
Invest In The Money Game for YOUR students…
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The Money Game is available as a complete downloadable kit where you print and assemble the pieces yourself OR a ready-to-play package…whichever is more convenient for you. Both kits include…
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| But here’s the BEST part! You’re not just purchasing the best financial literacy game on the planet…you’re becoming a member of a team of individuals and organizations who are committed to fixing our financial literacy problem once and for all.
This means you get…
And if the Money Game wasn’t enough…
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So…if you’re really and truly serious about teaching your kids, teens or adults how money works in a way that works for them…and you’ve been looking around for something unique and new and…dare Isay…revolutionary…then look around no more. Order your copy of The Money Game today! |
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**NO-RISK RESERVATION FORM**“Yes , I want to be part of the Financial Literacy Solution
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Wishing you and your students the very best life has to offer!
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Elisabeth
P.S. MY GUARANTEE: You have my word…If you don’t find The Money Game to be the most entertaining and relevant financial education teaching resource on the face of the planet, I’ll refund your money up to 6 months after your original purchase (minus shipping). If you’ve read the Instructional Manual and watched the Instructional Videos and played this game with your students (9-109), and you don’t notice that they are learning to Pay Themselves First and Invest in Assets and Love Passive Income, just send me an email and tell me why what you’ve done with the program. If I can’t help you make it profoundly effective for your audience, I’ll happily refund 100% of the purchase price within the 6 month period.
P.P.S. I promise you will wish someone had taught you this stuff when YOU were young.
P.P.P.S. Don’t want to teach the game yourself? We have a boatload of Creative Wealth Coaches around the country who can teach it for you.
“My daughters and their friends loved The Money Game. It was amazing to watch the interaction amongst the girls and see them all learning, while at the same time having so much fun! This interactive game revolves around real life situations that made the girls think about their financial situations now and in the future. They all feel like they can become millionaires and I think that is just awesome! No more Wii, when the girls come over, they want to play The Money Game!”

“The Money Game made teaching financial literacy easy!”
“My students are having so much fun learning about money!”
“I can now see the path and steps I can take to financial freedom!”
“I couldn’t teach our adults the importance of saving and investing without The Money Game.”
“We moved, we laughed, we learned and we did NOT take notes!”
“I took Camp Millionaire three times because I enjoyed playing The Money Game. I took it first when I was just 9 years old then again when I was 13 and the last time I was 15. I even went back last summer and helped out during camp. I’m now 17 and heading off to M.I.T. in a few weeks and I just want to say that without Elisabeth’s program and The Money Game, I wouldn’t feel nearly as ready to handle my own finances. Thank you Elisabeth!”
“A light after a dark tunnel” …. I learned so much from The Money Game and enjoyed it immensely through a very lively, colorful, emotional, supportive environment. I am looking forward to attending another program like this. Thank you a lot.








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