Yesterday on the 20th October 2025, SINA entrepreneur Janet Aguti met Pope Leo XIV as part of a delegation from Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), a global coalition of survivors and advocates. The hour-long audience opened a direct line of dialogue on child protection and accountability across the Catholic Church, described by several outlets and ECA […]
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SINA Loketa Art Centre in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement longlisted for Dezeen Awards 2025
The Bidibidi Performing Arts Centre, co-created with the refugee-led SINA Loketa community in northern Uganda, has been longlisted for the Dezeen Awards 2025. The centre is a semi-open amphitheatre with session rooms, training spaces and a recording studio, built from earth bricks and topped by a lightweight roof that also harvests rainwater for the surrounding […]
Art, Care, and Storytelling—Three SINA enterprises co-create healing for the International Day of the Girl Child
Common Canvas (formerly Walyendo Gallery), Totya Platform, and Obina from the Regenerative Safaris have joined forces to turn art into timely care for survivors of sexual violence. This is an example collaboration and co-creation inside the SINA ecosystem between SINA members and social enterprises. In Obina’s “Diary of a Bushman” podcast episode, Totya founder Janet […]
SINA Named Finalists for the 2026 Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has shortlisted SINA (Social Innovation Academy) and its founder, Etienne Salborn, as finalists in the Collective Social Innovation category of the 2026 Social Innovation Awards. The Foundation received more than 400 nominations this year. The winners will be announced at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January 2026. […]
SINA Wins the 2025 ZeroDX Award—back-to-back recognition for a Framework removing distance from impact
SINA (Social Innovation Academy) has been awarded the ZeroDX (Zero Distance Excellence) Award for 2025, marking the organisation’s second consecutive win in the category of “Benchmark Innovators”. Etienne Salborn was invited to Beijing, China to present SINA and to accept the award in person at the RenDanHeYi Forum & Second Zero Distance Excellence Award Ceremony. […]
SINA Acceleration (Cohort 11) Applications are Open
Are you ready to take your SINA social enterprise to another level? The SINA Acceleration program is open for its 11th cohort. It is a 5 months program uniquely designed to support SINA social enterprises to scale their impact and become self-sustainable. The program is done through two physical bootcamps (each one week long), weekly […]
Case Study on the SINA Purpose Pool and its Innovative Revenue Based Financing (RBF) Model
SINA is a movement of changemaker-makers: youth from challenging backgrounds who learn by leading, take on real roles in self-organized communities, and build social enterprises that solve real-world problems. Scholars shape their own path, gain practical skills, and turn challenges into opportunities inside regenerative, freesponsible learning spaces. This MBA research from Makerere University by David […]
We are hiring a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Steward
Organization: SINA (Social Innovation Academy)Location: Uganda; frequent travel to refugee settlements & SINA communitiesContract: Full-time, 12-month renewable | Start: ASAP | Deadline: Rolling pdf version here About SINASINA empowers marginalized and refugee youth to become social entrepreneurs in regenerative, self-organized communities guided by “freesponsibility” (freedom held together with responsibility) and the SINA Framework. More than […]
SINA Nominated for the 2025 ZeroDX Awards
We’re happy to share that SINA has been nominated again for the 2025 ZeroDX (ZeroDistance Excellence) Awards, a global recognition for organizations that remove the “distance” between teams, operations and the people they serve. The awards are led by the Business Ecosystem Alliance in partnership with the Haier Model Institute and Gary Hamel’s Management Lab, […]
SINA Replication in Nigeria Enters the Locally Led Phase
Our SINA Community in Nigeria, called “Dikko Social Innovation Academy” in Katsina State has crossed its first milestone. The pioneer cohort completed the opening phase of the SINA Framework—the Confusion Stage, also known as Applied Social Innovation—and now moves into professional development where learning translates into lived practice and early ventures. This community took root […]