Operation Count It All Joy
Emergency relief and creative resource pop-up series, redefining genius, meeting people where they are.
Leader
Operation Care Kit .
Location
Metro Detroit Metro Detroit, MI 482
About the project
Rediscovering brilliance in at-risk communities...
“Operation: Count it all Joy” is a community creative-outreach project centering some of Metro Detroit’s most vulnerable members. Operation Care Kit & friends welcomes you to help us roll out a 3-phase program aimed at meeting basic needs, providing creative outlets, and raising awareness for healing and strengthening communal bonds.
Phase 1: Mobile emergency aid & wellness boutique
- First-aid & winter survival supplies
- Thermal wear
- Toiletries
- Fresh meals & beverages
Phase 2: Creative-Care-Kit distribution, maker’s submission, and artist-led community workshops (3)
- Photography
- Painting & Sketching
- Literature & Journaling
- Performing Arts
- 10 sponsored misc projects
Phase 3: Gallery-style showing and Village Town Hall
- Artist Meet & Greet
- Communal discussion
- Resource pop-up
- Local business pledges
Creative-care-kit recipients will be invited to attend artist-led workshops and submit their creations to a sponsored exhibition. All facilitators and participants will be offered a fixed stipend in exchange for their leadership and installation pieces.
The Steps
Building Bridges:
- Marketing and Sponsorship campaign
- Volunteer outreach
- Canvass local neighborhoods to best understand current needs
- Solicit local businesses and organizations to create network of solidarity, safety, and resources
- Elect Accountability Ambassadors, connecting the dots between service providers and the general public
- Produce 10 themed mobile wellness events with revolving collaborators
- Secure relationships with local businesses/orgs for art dropoff locations
- Develop exhibition curation team
Secure venue for final project reveal
Timeline
Fundraiser Close: March 1, 2020
Supplies Purchase: March 20, 2020
Content Creator Booking: March 20, 2020
Exhibit Booking Deadline: August 31, 2020
Creative Expression Kit Distribution: November 08, 2020
Events
- Art + Relief Kit Potluck & Construct: April 4, 2020
- Mobile Relief Boutique Servive Day: April 5, 2020
- Mobile Event 2 + workshop: May 3, 2020
- Mobile Event 3: June 7, 2020
- Mobile Event 4: July 5, 2020
- Mobile Event 5 + workshop: August 2, 2020
- Mobile Event 6 : September 6, 2020
- Mobile Event 7: October 4, 2020
- Mobile Event 8 + workshop: November 8, 2020
- Mobile Event 9: December 19, 2020
- Mobile Event 10: January 17, 2021
Town Hall Exhibit: February 7, 2021
Why we‘re doing it
The Village Mission
Operation Care Kit, a Metro Detroit based non-profit mission was founded in the understanding that ecosystems thrive most when we're working collectively, creating access to the resources that meet each individual's basic needs. The intention behind Operation: Count it all Joy is to reignite the spirit of Motown by empowering individuals and nurturing shared experiences for the purpose of reflecting our humanity. We can best accomplish this by meeting people where they are and addressing the wholeness of our needs through healing, creative outlets and resource sharing.
Operation: Count It All Joy
Annually, OCK commences mission during the coldest months of the year to meet winter needs for our homeless/homefree neighbors. "Care kits" are assembled with survival, hygienic, food and first aid supplies, distributed to over 150 people across Metro Detroit.
This year's fundraiser is a progressive expansion of our annual operations, delving deeply into how the dynamically resilient people of Detroit have always transformed struggle to soul. Operation: Count it All Joy will feature our "Creative Care Kit" in 2020, introducing a variety of tools for therapeutic expression, to empower and acknowledge the brilliance that has always walked the streets of Detroit. We invite you to join us in making history, as we collaborate to remind the world how we transform obstacles into soul & opportunity.