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Partnership Spotlight: 195in365 × Design Our Futures N.O.W.
We are thrilled to announce a historic partnership between 195 in 365 and The Spiral Guardianship & Dream Tank.
195in365 is bringing its bold mission — to activate youth-led leadership in every single country on Earth — into the heart of the Spiral. Together, we are creating a living global network of stewards, elders, and innovators dedicated to systemic transformation.
With Dream Tank as the U.S. fiscal sponsor, this collaboration ensures that every donation fuels a Network of the Whole:
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Youth empowerment at scale — seeding pods and councils worldwide
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Global representation secured — no country left out, every voice welcomed
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Planetary regeneration — weaving art, story, science, and spirit into solutions
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Trusted infrastructure — transparent, regenerative funding flows through the Spiral Living Trust
This partnership is more than an initiative — it’s a movement for planetary coherence.
Your support helps ensure that youth leadership everywhere is not only imagined, but resourced, recognized, and realized.
🌀 Design Our Futures NOW.
💫 Global distribution secured. Youth leadership everywhere.
Design Our Futures N.O.W.: A Youth-Led Call to Imagine Tomorrow
The future isn’t something distant. It’s already being designed by the bold visions and choices of today’s youth, moment by moment, with our choices, creativity, and courage. Dream Tank’s Design Our Futures N.O.W. campaign is an open invitation for youth everywhere to invite older generations to break down their walls and help them rise, imagine, and design the world they want to live in.
N.O.W. – Network of the Whole
The Spiral Guardianship Council is the living heart of the Network of the Whole. Formed in early 2025, it brings together intergenerational stewards, visionaries, and community leaders to ensure that youth voices are not just heard, but integrated into the design of regenerative systems. Guardianship is about more than oversight — it’s about modeling wisdom, weaving resources, and holding sacred space for bold youth-led innovation to flourish. This council acts as a bridge between generations, guiding the Spiral so that every DreamTank hub and planetary activation is supported with love, integrity, and accountability.
🌍 The Theme: The Future I Want
At its heart, this global planetary regeneration movement asks young people to put their visions of tomorrow into form—through innovation, entrepreneurship, gaming, investing, painting, dance, writing, photography, digital storytelling, or any creative medium. Every post, every brushstroke, every shared innovation becomes part of a worldwide chorus, reminding us that the future belongs to all of us, and especially to those who will inherit it.
✨ It’s a Movement
This isn’t just about creating beautiful work. It’s about igniting a movement of connection, courage, and love. In a world facing climate change, inequality, and fast-moving technological shifts, we believe youth voices hold the power to reframe not only what we fear, but what we hope for. Each creation is a message of resilience and possibility: proof that our future can be designed with kindness, compassion, and bold imagination.
🚀 Part of a Bigger Dream
This campaign builds on Dream Tank’s mission to mobilize #1BillionYouth innovation for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. From amplifying youth voices at the United Nations to elevating their ideas at Davos, Dream Tank has always stood for one truth: young people hold the creativity and vision we need to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Design Our Futures N.O.W. is the next chapter—a space for youth to design the future through the universal language of art.
🎨 What Happens Next?
Over the coming months, youth worldwide are invited to create and share under the theme The Future I Want. Selected works may be showcased in digital galleries, local community events, and even global gatherings. Imagine the visions of today’s youth being projected on walls, celebrated in exhibitions, or woven into policy conversations shaping tomorrow.
💡 Who Can Participate?
Anyone, anywhere. All it takes is courage, creativity, and the willingness to dream out loud. Whether you’re sketching in a classroom, filming with your phone, or painting on the streets—your vision matters.
🌟 The Call to Action
The future doesn’t belong to a few—it belongs to all of us. And it doesn’t wait. Design Our Futures N.O.W. is your chance to step into it boldly. Together, we can weave a future that
The time is now. If we don’t co-design the future with youth, we risk leaving them out of the very systems they will inherit.
What future will you design?
The future doesn’t belong to a few — it belongs to all of us. And it won’t wait. Design Our Futures N.O.W. is your chance to step into it with courage and creativity. Together, we can shape a tomorrow filled with hope, love, and possibility.
🌍 The time is now.
✨ What future will you design?
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Because every act of L.O.V.E. brings us closer to the future we dream of.
Announcing Dream Tank Kenya: Where Mental Wellness Meets Youth Innovation
Dream Tank Kenya is the next evolution of youth-led innovation in Africa, a dynamic partnership between Safehouse Kenya and Dream Tank Global. Together, we are creating a platform where mental wellness, creativity, and leadership intersect, equipping young people with the tools they need to heal, thrive, and drive social change.
This initiative is not simply a collaboration; it is a movement. Dream Tank Kenya combines the lived experiences of young people with global innovation practices to create programs that are deeply relevant, impactful, and sustainable.
Our Story
Safehouse Kenya was born in 2020, during the global pandemic. At a time when mental health challenges were escalating worldwide, young people in Kenya were especially vulnerable, isolated, uncertain, and in need of connection. Recognizing this need, Safehouse Kenya emerged as a youth-led initiative in Nairobi that sought to provide a safe space for healing, expression, and community. What began as small gatherings and digital conversations rapidly grew into a recognized hub for mental wellness and creativity. Safehouse pioneered art therapy sessions, storytelling initiatives, school outreach programs, and community campaigns that made mental health both relatable and accessible. Each project carried a simple yet powerful message: youth voices matter, and healing is possible. Over the years, Safehouse expanded its reach across schools, children’s homes, and local communities, blending creativity with advocacy to inspire resilience and belonging. Its work became known not only for raising awareness but for practicing care, turning art into therapy, and conversations into movements.
In October 2024, the spark ignited when Thee Safehouse Kenya connected with Dream Tank Global — and the synergy was instant. We first explored collaboration during Dream Tank’s 4th Annual Brown University “Winternship” in January 2025 — a two-week internship and immersive innovation design sprint where Brown students work with alumni-led impact ventures. Safehouse Kenya joined as a spotlight partner, helping prototype a scaling model first in Dream Tank Kenya, while Brown undergraduates received stipends (underwritten by Brown University) to co-design impactful solutions. With Heidi Cuppari (Dream Tank’s founder and Brown alum, Class of ’95) championing deeper alumni engagement, this program models how global innovation and community-rooted leadership can co-create sustainable change. The Winternship catalyzed this launch — and it’s just the beginning.
Meet the Safehouse Kenya team- a passionate group of youth leaders turning art, wellness, and creativity into tools for healing and change.
Today, through its integration with Dream Tank Global, Safehouse evolves into Dream Tank Kenya, amplifying its mission on a larger stage. With this partnership, we align Kenyan youth with global innovation networks, giving them opportunities to dream, design, and launch solutions that transform communities.
This launch also reflects the collective guidance of the Spiral Guardianship Council, a constellation of stewards and visionaries forming since February 2025 to anchor Dream Tank’s evolution into a verb and a movement, which will be held in an international trust for generations to come. Dream Tank Kenya is one of the first global hubs to emerge through this trust — embodying our Network of the Whole in action.
Our Programs
At Dream Tank Kenya, our programs are designed to bridge creativity and leadership with healing and wellness.
🎨 Art Therapy for Healing
Guided sessions using painting, poetry, music, and storytelling as safe outlets for expression and recovery. These workshops allow youth to process emotions, build resilience, and discover new possibilities for self-expression.
🚀 Dream-Design-Launch Workshops
An innovation model that empowers youth to co-create solutions to local and global challenges. These workshops move participants from imagination to action, enabling them to design initiatives that directly benefit their communities.
🏫 Community Activations
School programs, children’s home visits, and grassroots outreach initiatives that extend safe spaces into communities. These activations spark conversations around mental health, self-worth, and creativity while equipping youth with tangible tools for personal growth.
🌐 Global Youth Connection
Through our partnership with Dream Tank Global, Kenyan youth are connected to international opportunities such as Dream Tank’s 195 in 365 initiative. This ensures that young leaders in Kenya are not only transforming their local communities but are also part of a worldwide movement of changemakers.
🎥 Content Creation and Storytelling
Producing films, podcasts, reels, and digital media that reflect youth voices, raise awareness, and inspire global audiences. Our creative communications are central to breaking stigma and sparking dialogue on mental wellness and innovation.
Our Team
The strength of Dream Tank Kenya lies in its people, a passionate, youth-led team committed to building spaces of healing and change.
Derrick Barrack – Creative Director & Communications Lead
Derrick drives storytelling, videography, and digital content creation, ensuring that our message resonates widely and authentically.
Dillon Mulindi – Community Outreach & Partnerships
Dillon brings a grassroots focus, ensuring that our programs reach schools, orphanages, and underserved communities. His work ensures that the movement remains grounded in real needs.
Arnold Mulindi – Operations & Strategy
Arnold oversees systems, logistics, and growth strategies, ensuring that Dream Tank Kenya functions effectively while scaling impact.
Elizabeth Maingi – Mental Wellness & Programs Lead
Elizabeth specializes in art therapy and youth-centered wellness initiatives, anchoring the organization in its mission to use creativity as a tool for healing and empowerment.
Who We Serve
Dream Tank Kenya is designed for:
- The Youth seeking healing, purpose, and a platform to express themselves.
- Educators and mentors seeking innovative approaches to integrate mental wellness and creativity into learning spaces.
- Communities committed to using art and dialogue to foster resilience and a sense of belonging.
- Global allies and partners who believe in youth-led change and are ready to co-create solutions with the next generation.
Our Vision
A generation of empowered, expressive, and resilient young people who use creativity, innovation, and leadership to transform their communities and shape a better future. Dream Tank Kenya is part of the global Design Our Futures N.O.W. (Network of the Whole) movement, weaving together sister communities to accelerate youth-led innovation for thriving futures.
Why It Matters
Dream Tank Kenya is more than a partnership; it is a call to action. We are redefining what it means to be young in today’s world: not passive recipients of change, but active designers of the future.
Through creativity, healing, and collaboration, we are equipping young people not only to imagine a better world but to design it, launch it, and live it.
Together, we are building a movement where art heals, youth lead, and dreams shape the future.
