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Leveraging our Values in a Time of Crisis

At the beginning of February 2020, we gathered for a strategy planning meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. We couldn’t have imagined that a couple of weeks l…

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Fail Faire 2019 Nairobi – The Art of Bouncing Back

By Selsabil Dkhil, Amani Social Innovation Management Fellow (Kenya Class 10)If you ask someone, or even Google about Thomas Edison, the first obvious…

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Choosing Venezuela: Claudia Valladares Walks Her Talk

If you were given the option to remain in a stable country with a lucrative job, or return to your home country, which is in a state of turmoil, what …

Digitizing The Informal Diary Sector To Unlock Smallholders’ Potential in Kenya

“Business is about people and if you want to invest in anything, the best investment you can make is in people”. Graham Benton, Lishabora Founder,…

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Testing the Waters: Short courses on Social Entrepreneurship in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Since we launched our Amani Institute hub in Sao Paulo, Brazil we have been testing the waters by running short courses on various professional skills…

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The Inner Journey of the Changemaker

In 2014, we’re collaborating with the Stanford Social Innovation Review to write a series of articles about our work in social innovation education.…

Expanding the Rule of Law Skillset: Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Beyond

Cross-posted on INPROL - International Network to Promote the Rule of LawBy Marie Mainil, Business and Product Development Consultant, Amani Institute…

What Leaders Can Learn from Artists

What can leaders and agents of social change learn from artists, and the way artists go about the creative process? One of our recent visitors at the …

Social Innovation Inside Companies: Guest Expert Alexa Clay

Now that we're off and running, we've had several guest speakers share their work with our students, either in person or via skype. One such speaker w…