project 001
90 Day Challenge
One person. Zero funding. A garage with no AC. 90 days to prove a creative organization can be built from nothing.
Ends on November 20th
What is it
This is the project behind every project, the public experiment that Organized Squirrels itself is built on. No funding, no team at the start, just a list of ambitious goals and a countdown clock. Every project, zine, drive, and drop happening across all six departments is happening inside this challenge.
The Goals
□ $6,000 raised to run and grow the organization
□ 100 founding members
□ 500 followers
□ 250 email subscribers
□ 3 projects completed
□ 1 major community event
□ 10 active volunteers
□ 5 community partners
□ 3 sponsors
□ 10 sustaining partners
□ 1 zine published
1 website officially launched
□ 1 press feature
□ 1 future project funded
Why 90 Days
We gave ourselves 90 days and a list of goals, because if a community can help build something real with almost nothing, imagine what we can build together over years. This isn't the whole dream. It's proof the dream is possible.
Follow Along
Update Logs
Day 20 — Built and designed the project pages and categories
Day 19 — Planned the dates for the first few projects and started advertising them
Day 16 — Created a designated paid email account
Day 15 — Created a social planner to have daily posts at the ready
Day 12 — Planned out the first few projects
Day 11 — You Got This Gigs advertised our creative call
Day 10 — Added a Founding Partner option to our website and social media, built a Brand & Project Framework pdf
Day 8 — Went to my first meeting with a local creative organization
Day 7 — Built, designed and started sending out our newsletter
Day 6 — Built an email signature, started reaching out and built a spreadsheet for the email outreach
Day 4 — Website officially launched, built the poster for our 14 Goal, launched our creative call
Day 3 — Designed and built the website
Day 2 — Setup all social media accounts, setup automations, built forms and purchased a domain
Day 1 — Found a company name and created a mission statement
Organized Squirrels is a Canadian creative organization built to make creativity accessible, sustainable, and celebrated in the Greater Moncton Area and across the world through online resources. We believe creativity is infrastructure, as essential to a healthy community as roads or parks and we exist to build the soil, the shelter, and the stage where it grows. Because every person is born an artist, and we intend to prove it.
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