IGNITE MANILA
How many people does it take
to ignite a city and confront
the world’s wicked problems?

Every day, in Manila, the world’s 2nd most
populous metro, we ignite one more.
Instead of titles and bios, we each express
OUR OWN PERSONAL MANIFESTO
on Ignite’s Necessary Progression:
from Genius, to Purpose and Mission,
to Collaboration, and ultimately,
to Innovation and Impact.
This is the one that started us all
IGNITE MANIFESTO
IGNITE MANIFESTO
Everything we do in Ignite, we do to
operationalize and bring to life – in our
circles, in our campus chapters, in our
corporate partners, in our city –
this Ignite Manifesto.
At Ignite, we know these to be true:
Genius
First, that I am gifted with my own Genius
– unique, unrepeated and unrepeatable for
all time.
Purpose
Second, that my singular Genius bears the
thumbprint of Who I Am and Why I am Here.
Genius points to Purpose, Purpose to
Genius.
Third, that I can only give out of what I
have been given. And what I have been
given, I must give and live for others.
Genius finds its fullness
in a Purpose bigger than self.
SHARED MISSION
Fourth, that if I am honest and brave, my
Genius and Purpose will find their manifest
call in a shared Mission –
with others, for others. A Mission rooted in
finding that particular slice of humanity
whose particular pains I am particularly
gifted (and compelled!) to heal.
COLLABORATION
Fifth, that this shared Mission leads
naturally to Collaboration, and ultimately,
to Innovation. Shared Mission demands
Shared Genius: mine, yours, ours.
If we are a collection of our own Genius –
each unique, unrepeated, unrepeatable –
there is nowhere else to go, but to
INNOVATION.
…
We Ignite, therefore, not just for self, but for
each other. Because what we are born to do,
we are born to do with others. We need
each other’s Genius.
IMPACT
And far beyond Genius, we need each other
to be on this journey, to fulfill this necessary
progression: from Genius, to Purpose and
Mission, to Collaboration, and ultimately, to
Innovation and Impact.
TRANSCEND
This is the path of transcendence. This is
how we lift each other to heights we never
in our wildest dreams, or loftiest ambitions,
dared.