501(C)(3) IN FORMATION
Rehuman Institute
Putting the human person back at the centre of culture, education, work and society.
This is what an idea looks like when it lands.
+40K
young people in the community
+100
cities across +20 countries
+300
community events a year
+6,000
in one night, Madrid, January 2026
Rehuman Institute
01 / Where this comes from
Madrid, 2020. Seven people.
No funding, no brand, no plan. Seven people who thought their generation deserved better rooms than the ones on offer, and started organizing them.
What it became, one
The largest youth cultural movement in the Spanish-speaking world.
What it became, two
The largest humanist school in the Spanish-speaking world.
+600
events organized
+800
volunteers who organized them
+60
cities
+20
countries
+40K
young people in the community
Rehuman Institute
02 / Two projects, one team
Two separate projects, born from the same team.
They are not two brands of one product. They do different things, for different people, and either one works without the other.
THE MOVEMENT
It’s Time to Think
A youth cultural movement. Rooms in a city, one night at a time: a talk on a timer, an argument, dinner, and friendships that outlast the evening. Free, local, volunteer-run.
600+ events · 800+ volunteers · 60 cities
THE SCHOOL
A humanist digital school. A two-year journey through the humanities, fifteen minutes a day, with its own platform, production and mentors. Paid, structured, measured.
+200 video classes · +200 intellectuals · +40K formed
One happens in a room. The other happens on a phone.
What we are building in America is an institution of its own — with its own life, its own name and its own leadership — and one of the things it will do is implant both projects here.
Rehuman Institute
03 / Why a new institution
One of the founders moved here a year ago. It started growing on its own.
We are not exporting a Spanish brand. We want to build the same model in the United States with a new institution and a new name — one that is 100% American, that Americans feel is theirs, and that grows locally.
01
A network on day one
Direct connection to our Hispanic community: +200 intellectuals and +40,000 young people.
02
The method, to make their own
Everything we’ve built in six years, handed over to be adapted rather than translated.
03
The technology
Full access to Thenomba’s platforms — built to make thinking a daily habit.
Rehuman Institute
04 / The technology
Nothing here is rented.
Thenomba is not a course catalogue on somebody else’s software. It is our own platform, our own studio and our own network, built for one purpose: to fold humanist formation into an ordinary working day.
Platform and app
Built for a two-year journey, not a course list. Fifteen minutes a day happens on a phone or it doesn’t happen.
Courses shaped as journeys
Not modules. Each stage is a route with a threshold, a middle and a return, and you always know where you are on it.
Studio and crew
Film-grade production of our own: camera, sound, direction, and editors who have cut documentaries that streamed on Netflix.
Its own social network
A humanist LinkedIn: a professional network for people being formed, not for people job-hunting. No metrics, no engagement games.
Library and film library
The books and the films behind every stage, in one place — plus what to read and what to watch next, from wherever you are.
Events run by the students
Anyone can convene their own gathering, in a room or online, and the rest of the community can walk in.
Your elixir
The notes the platform takes with you in class, gathered into one document you can download whenever you want.
Mentors
Someone who knows what you are reading and notices when you stop.
Measurement
Our own flourishing assessment, built on the published Harvard framework. Before, after, and continuously.
Cinematic, not academic. The classes are shot and edited like film, because that is the difference between a programme people abandon in week three and one they finish over two years.
Rehuman Institute
05 / The foundation
What we believe about a person.
Dignity
The person comes before ideas, politics, interests or categories.
Reason
Human nature can be investigated. The good life is not merely a preference.
Character
Education should not only produce competence. It should help people become better.
Relationships
Friendship, family and belonging are not accessories to a good life. They are it.
Community
Healthy people need healthy communities, and the institutions that carry them.
The common good
Your good and your city’s cannot finally be separated.
Freedom
Essential — but fulfilment is not maximizing choice. It arrives through commitment and self-giving.
Meaning and purpose
What is my life for? What is worth pursuing? What do I owe other people? Prosperity doesn’t answer those.
Transcendence
Openness to what exceeds us. A life measured only by what it produces eventually runs out of reasons.
Truth
We’re not relativists: it exists. We don’t claim to own it, so we look for it together.
Rehuman Institute
06 / Where we stand
We have roots, but not walls.
We are not a conservative, progressive, post-liberal or partisan project. Our genealogy runs through Christian humanism, personalism, classical virtue ethics, natural law and the common-good tradition — but the conversation is deliberately open and non-confessional.
IN DIALOGUE WITH
Natural law & Christian humanism
Human dignity, human nature, reason, virtue and objective human goods.
IN DIALOGUE WITH
Common-good thought
The recovery of community, family, obligation and the critique of excessive individualism.
IN DIALOGUE WITH
Human flourishing & character
The most natural language for this work in contemporary America: character, purpose, institutions, flourishing.
These are sources of dialogue, not ideological boundaries. We are not building an echo chamber of people who already agree.
Rehuman Institute
07 / The architecture
One anthropology. Four mechanisms.
Different purposes and different audiences — but the same understanding of the person underneath all of them.
UNDERSTAND
Rehuman Institute
Anthropology, research, the intellectual network, philanthropy, governance and infrastructure. The roots.
THINK
It’s Time to Think
The youth movement. Rooms in the city where young people meet, argue, build friendships and look for what’s true. Come.
FORM
Thenomba · Rehuman Business
Technology and film-grade audiovisual production that folds humanist formation into a person’s ordinary day — and into a company’s.
CREATE
May 28
A decentralized cultural movement. Agency, belonging, creation — by people who don’t need our permission. Create.
Rehuman gives roots. Thenomba forms people. It’s Time to Think builds community. May 28 unleashes creation.
Rehuman Institute
08 / The institution
A new American institution.
We are constituting a new US 501(c)(3) so that everything we do here operates legally and on its own books — and so that it is led by Americans, with an American vision.
Its own entity
Every project we run in the United States operates under it, in its own name.
American leadership
An American board and American direction. Not a branch office waiting for instructions from Madrid.
Connected, and independent
Full access to our Hispanic network from day one — +200 intellectuals and +40,000 young people. What it builds with them is its own decision.
Two languages, one network
The ambition: the largest Euro-American intellectual network there is, working in English and in Spanish.
Rehuman Institute
09 / Constitution
A 501(c)(3), and what it will hold.
WHAT WE ARE CONSTITUTING
Rehuman Institute — a US 501(c)(3): the non-profit home for research, the intellectual network, philanthropy and community.
American rights to the Thinkglao — the format, the brand and the methodology, to operate across the United States.
American rights to Thenomba’s technology — the platform, the app, the network and the measurement of the leading humanist digital school in the Spanish-speaking world.
A separate commercial entity — for tuition and corporate programmes, so donations, intellectual property and revenue each sit where they belong.
Structure to be finalised with US legal and tax advisers.
POTENTIAL COLLABORATORS
Oxford Character Project
University of Oxford. In conversation about the academic direction of the corporate programme.
Human Flourishing Program
Harvard University. Its published flourishing framework is what our own measurement draws on.
University of Navarra
In conversation as co-convener, with Oxford, of the Humanistic Leadership & Business Initiative.
Institutions we are talking to, and friends of the project. Nothing here is signed yet — and we will not say it is until it is. Board and governance still to be constituted.
It’s Time to Think
10 / What exists
THINK · ENCOUNTER · CENTRIPETAL
Not a plan. A movement already running.
250
events every year
+600
volunteers across 60 cities
+20
countries
+15K
people a year, in person
Six paid Thinkglaos in the US since January — New York and Boston, two of them sold out.
Institutional homes — IESE New York and the Abigail Adams Institute, Cambridge.
Arthur Brooks among our ambassadors, on stage at four Thinkglaos.
The 2026–27 season — 20+ events across Boston, New York and Miami, and one great Thinkglao for 400.
AMBASSADOR
One of the people who best embodies what we are: Arthur Brooks.
Harvard professor, and one of our ambassadors. He has been on stage at four Thinkglaos around the world — and this season he does one with us here.
He writes about happiness the way we run a room: seriously, without a sermon, and with the conviction that a person can become better on purpose.
Thenomba
11 / What it is
FORM · THE PERSON
A humanist school that lives inside your day.
Not a library of courses. A designed journey through the humanities that somebody walks with you, fifteen minutes at a time, for two years — until you know what you’re for.
Story logic
Screen by screen, the way you move through a story on a phone. You always know where you are.
Cut like film
Every class is shot and edited by people who make documentaries. That’s why people finish it.
Someone beside you
A mentor who knows what you’re reading and notices when you stop.
Your elixir
Every note you take, gathered into one document. Two years later, it’s a book only you could have written.
+200
video classes
+70
masterclasses
+200
intellectuals in the network
+40K
young people formed
Rehuman Business
13 / Form · the company
The same conviction, inside an organization.
Companies don’t have a skills problem. They have a judgment problem. You cannot install judgment with a workshop — you form the person, and the professional follows.
Eight stages
A structured journey through the faculties an organization actually runs on.
Fifteen minutes
Inside the working day. No offsite, no lost quarter.
Measured
Before and after, aggregated and anonymous. A number you can take to a board.
Oxford
Academic direction from the Oxford Character Project, University of Oxford.
You think. AI multiplies. It multiplies the output of good judgment — and the damage of bad judgment, at exactly the same rate.
CREATE · THE MOVEMENT
May 28
A social movement that ends in the largest festival about human bonds ever staged. Madrid, Paris and New York, May 2028.
87.5%
of young Spaniards report unwanted loneliness in the past year. It is not a minority.
Barómetro Juventud, Salud y Bienestar 2025 · Fad Juventud
What ‘68 broke
Every bond you had not chosen became suspect. Commitment turned optional — and what best delivered a generation with no ties was the market.
What ‘28 rebuilds
The bond as the thing that makes you who you are. Family, friendship, and the communities in between. One declared objective: rebuild community.
Twelve books, and one night.
The Festival
Madrid, Paris and New York, the same night. Thousands of people thinking and dancing about what got built over two years.
The May 28 Collection
Twelve books by twelve first-rank thinkers, published across the two years that lead up to it.
THE ROAD TO 2028
24 Oct 2026
Universidad de Navarra. The CREA Forum.
24–25 Jun 2027
Harvard. Twenty academics, twenty leaders under thirty.
Season 2027–28
The twelve books.
Season 2027–28
300 Thinkglaos across 60 cities.
May 2028
The night itself, in three cities.
THE PILOT · MADRID · 17 JANUARY 2026
We have already done it once.
El Despertar filled the Palacio de Vistalegre in Madrid for a single night about how a generation should live. Novelists, philosophers and essayists from across the Spanish-speaking world shared that stage. We chose not to repeat it in 2027 — and to wait, and do it far better.
+6,000
people, one night
80%
of them under thirty
×2
the size of the Madrid night in 2028 — and then two more cities
The ecosystem
15 / The critical distinction
Opposite directions, on purpose.
IT’S TIME TO THINK · CENTRIPETAL
COME.
Come to a Thinkglao. Come into a community. Meet people. Listen. Disagree. Build relationships. Search for truth.
We build community.
MAY 28 · CENTRIFUGAL
CREATE.
Take these ideas into your profession. Start something. Launch an initiative. Transform an institution. And don’t wait for us.
The community builds things.
Keeping this distinction sharp is what stops the two from ever competing with each other.
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16 / Governance by design
Control decreases on purpose.
As you move from the institute outward, our grip loosens and external ownership grows. That is not a weakness in the model. It is the model.
Rehuman Institute — high institutional control. It protects intellectual coherence, governance and resources.
Thenomba & Rehuman Business — high control. Educational proposition, methodology, faculty and experience.
It’s Time to Think — curated decentralization. Local communities have real agency inside a stewarded movement.
May 28 — designed to decentralize. The goal is activity beyond our organizational control.
Rehuman Institute
17 / The plan
What happens, and when.
Sep — Dec 2026
The funding round. Founding donors, institutional partners and the first corporate client.
October 2026
The institution is constituted, and the 501(c)(3) filing begins.
Season 2026–27
15 Thinkglaos across New York, Boston, Miami and Washington DC — an average of 100 young people each.
May 2027
One great Thinkglao: +400 people at the Ángel Orensanz Foundation, New York.
24–25 June 2027
The international forum at Harvard, on dignity, flourishing and rebuilding community.
Jan — Dec 2027
Production of Thenomba in English: the full journey, shot and edited.
26 May 2028
May 28 — New York, Paris and Madrid, the same night.
Rehuman Institute
18 / What we need
What it takes to build it here.
Founding donors
People who become godparents of the institute in America. The 501(c)(3) exists so this is possible.
Institutional partners
Universities, foundations and centres who want to think alongside us, not sponsor us.
An American faculty
Thinkers who want to form a new generation of leaders. Four join when the first corporate client signs.
A pioneer company
The first organization to run Rehuman Business in English, and put its name on the cohort.
Six years built the network in one language. What we’re asking for is the second one.
Rehuman gives roots.
Thenomba forms people. It’s Time to Think builds community. May 28 unleashes creation.
Add it all up and it is one thing: the largest humanist network in the world, thinking in two languages.
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501(c)(3) in formation · Institutional dossier · United States · 2026