At MANAUS, we give ourselves the freedom to make any initiative our key initiative, as long as it has the potential to strengthen the community. Our guiding principle of human-centered design allows us to execute across a wide range of topics, fields, and partnerships. 

MANAUS believes in making bold, well-considered risks. 

Risk is not the same as recklessness, it requires the complementary values of prudence and daring, and the courage to be open to any idea even ones that others would discard as unworkable. Sometimes an idea, ultimately, is too risky or a bad investment. But sometimes we are surprised by its hidden potential and by the fact that nobody else has embraced it yet. Ideas like this are often the ones that truly disrupt and change communities. 

MANAUS also understands that, as humans, risk is in our blood. Our distant ancestors knew how to embrace risk-taking as a normal and healthy part of navigating the world that it added value and richness to the human experience. We are grateful for that lesson and have seen time and time again how useful it is as a business practice.

By our thinking, investment success at the local level is also success on a global level. Every community is in some way intertwined with the rest so when you embolden even one group you are accelerating progress everywhere. This is how we think of our investment dollars: As fuel for change across the globe.