TILT's 2025 year-end campaign focuses on our work supporting neurodiverse and non-speaking individuals and communities.
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For 2026, three planned projects will work towards this goal:
1. "The Bridge Curriculum" for Nonspeakers: From Spelling to Thriving
2. Research Study: Neurostimulation to Support Body-Brain Wisdom
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Your donation will go directly to supporting the project of your choice (85%) and our necessary operations for the project (15%).
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BACKGROUND
This year, via our collaboration with The Telepathy Tapes, our talented science team brought our unconditional love and rigorous scientific ethos to help better understand the gifted minds of nonspeaking individuals with autism.
[The image above is from a figure in our first article about Mind Discovery in nonspeaking autistic individuals. To read it, click on the image above or here: https://tinyurl.com/MindfieldNonspeakers.]
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2026 PROJECTS IN DEPTH
The Bridge Curriculum: From Spelling to Thriving for Nonspeakers (100% FUNDED!):
The Bridge is a compassion-based curriculum designed to help nonspeaking neurodivergent individuals thrive by training communication and regulation partners (CRPs) and their families. Completed by April 2026, it will offer a comprehensive 8-module pre-certification training program with expert Q&A, community access. The Bridge will include modules covering apraxia, oculomotor difficulties, the importance of love, left/right brain development, nonlocal communication, and giftedness among other topics. Individuals with interest in continuing the program can enroll in a follow-up program that confers certification after completing in-person practice with the course leaders. Within its first year, the program aims to reach 2,000 students, support 300 new CRPs, and improve the lives of 4,000 nonspeakers and their families.
Our team recorded a casual Zoom conversation (complete with moustache/beard filters) about the difficulty and importance inherent in helping nonspeakers communicate; watch a 5-min excerpt: https://tinyurl.com/TheBridgeSpelling
Read the 1-page proposal here: http://tinyurl.com/TheBridgeCurriculum
Thanks to a generous grant from an anonymous individual and foundation, as well as gift from TILT supporter Geoffrey Oelsner, 100% of the budget has already been pledged. Please consider our other projects!
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Neurostimulation to Support Body-Brain Wisdom (Of $256,450 budget, $256,000 not yet pledged):
This proposal outlines a 12-month scientific study to evaluate whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive and low-risk neuromodulation technique, can improve communication, wellbeing, and self-regulation in non-speaking autistic individuals. Twenty participants will undergo a 10-week baseline period (no neurostimulation), followed by a 10-week intervention with weekly tDCS sessions tailored to their individual goals (expressive communication, compulsivity/anxiety reduction), and then a 10-week follow-up period (no neurostimulation). All neurostimulation interventions will be paired with language practice tasks. Outcomes will be measured through behavioral observations, standardized scales, self- and caregiver-reports, and blinded video reviews, with feasibility and safety closely monitored. The study aims to provide direct benefits to participants and their families, contribute to the scientific field through publications and presentations, and lay groundwork for scaling interventions that shift perceptions of ability in this population.
Read the 1-page proposal here: https://tinyurl.com/BodyBrainWisdom
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Laying the Groundwork for MIND-RISE (Of $172,250 budget, $72,250 not yet pledged):
MIND-RISE is a planned U.S.-based Center of Excellence in Human Potential Research and Innovation that aims to transform trauma, autism, neurodivergence, and unrealized capacities from crises into catalysts for human thriving. This nationwide nonprofit center will incubate frontier consciousness, brain health, and psi technologies in partnership with local communities, developing independently tested prototypes and startups that enhance human capacities such as intuition, precognition, creative insight, and dream-based learning. Over a 6-month planning phase, this project will assemble a founding team, design the organizational architecture, build relationships with committed partners, recruit faculty and staff, and prepare the first $10M in funding. The resulting hybrid nonprofit/incubator model will prioritize empowering neurodiverse individuals and communities, reframing current social and economic challenges as opportunities for healing, belonging, and exceptional performance.
Read the 1-page proposal here: http://tinyurl.com/MindRise6month
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GRATITUDE
BIG GRATITUDE to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for supporting Time Machine and our pilot efforts with incarcerated and Native communities in 2020-2025!
Over the last five years, TILT has brought non-addictive, love-infused, hope-building technology to 4000+ individuals and recovery communities using our wellbeing tool at https://www.timemachine.love/.
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Even BIGGER GRATITUDE to YOU for supporting TILT in bringing more awareness to the love that connects and heals us all through time.
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TILT is a 501c3 nonprofit that creates science-informed experiences, technologies, and curricula to transform ourselves and our institutions with unconditional love.