Creating Graphic Design Assets
Community of Guardians is a fast-growing nonprofit platform using science, storytelling, and community action to guide people toward sustainability. Our mission is to rebuild trust in science, celebrate unsung science heroes, and inspire measurable, real-world action. We are looking to elevate our visual identity through fresh, inspiring, and accessible design assets that reflect our superhero-themed brand and community-powered mission. The goal is to support brand recognition, membership engagement, and promote our “What’s My Number?” quiz — a tool that helps users discover which SDG they’re most called to protect. This project will involve: Creating a refreshed branding guide that aligns with our existing superhero theme but elevates our visual identity with more polish, consistency, and emotional impact. Designing graphic assets to support ongoing campaigns, including the What’s My Number quiz, membership recruitment, and SDG Superhero spotlight series. Proposing and creating new visual assets for our social media, website, videos, and print materials — using Canva or similar tools. Exploring creative ways to visually connect our 17 SDG superheroes with storytelling, identity, and calls to action.
Mission: Planet Possible Video Series Production
Community of Guardians is embarking on an exciting initiative to create a video series titled "Mission: Planet Possible." The aim is to spotlight scientists and sustainability changemakers who are making significant contributions to environmental conservation and sustainable practices. The project involves producing a 5-episode series where Sheridan students will conduct interviews with these experts. The goal is to develop engaging and action-oriented content that will inspire the public to engage more deeply with sustainability issues. This project provides an opportunity for students to apply their classroom knowledge in media production, communication, and environmental studies to real-world scenarios. Students will work collaboratively with our project team to follow our existing episode template, using the pilot episode as a guide. Each episode will amplify science in plain language, include a call to action, and aim to rebuild public trust in science by making it accessible, inspiring, and solutions-focused. This project will involve several stages, including: Collaborating with our creative lead to adapt the Mission: Planet Possible branding and theme for a full 5-episode arc. Planning interviews with 5 scientists (selected with our team) who are working on issues aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Researching each scientist’s work and co-creating storyboards and scripts for their interviews. Recording, editing, and producing each video episode with strong storytelling and visual appeal. Designing a video intro/outro, and potentially creating episode-specific graphics or animations. Ensuring the videos include clear and engaging calls to action for viewers to get involved. The series will serve as a platform to amplify the voices of those driving positive change and encourage viewers to take actionable steps towards sustainability.
Community of Guardians Platform Enhancement
The Community of Guardians is seeking to enhance its existing platform by implementing Phase 2 of its web development project. The goal is to improve user experience, increase platform functionality, and ensure scalability for future growth. The current platform serves as a hub for community engagement, and this phase aims to introduce new features that will facilitate better interaction among users. The project will involve refining the user interface, optimizing backend processes, and integrating new tools that align with the platform's mission of fostering community support and collaboration. Key tasks include analyzing current platform limitations, designing user-friendly interfaces, and implementing efficient coding practices to enhance performance. The project provides an opportunity for learners to apply their web development skills, including front-end and back-end development, user experience design, and software testing.
"What's My Number" Marketing Campaign Strategy
The "What's My Number" marketing campaign aims to increase awareness and engagement for the Community of Guardians, a non-profit organization dedicated to community welfare and support. The project involves developing a comprehensive marketing strategy that leverages digital platforms to reach a broader audience. The goal is to create a campaign that resonates with the target demographic, encouraging them to learn more about their community impact number—a unique identifier that reflects their contribution to community welfare. The project will require the team to conduct market research, identify key messaging, and propose creative content ideas. By applying marketing theories and digital communication strategies learned in class, students will gain practical experience in campaign development and execution. - Conduct market research to understand the target audience. - Develop key messaging and creative content ideas. - Propose a digital marketing strategy using social media and other online platforms. - Create a timeline and budget estimation for campaign execution.
Sustainable Action Platform Development
The Community of Guardians (CoGs) is on a mission to create a powerful platform that enables individuals to take meaningful action towards sustainability. The project aims to develop a web-based application using Node.js and React, which will serve as a hub for resources, community engagement, and actionable steps to promote environmental and social responsibility. The goal is to empower users globally to learn about sustainability and implement changes in their daily lives. This project provides an opportunity for learners to apply their software development skills in a real-world context, contributing to a high-impact product that addresses pressing global issues. The team will work through the entire software development lifecycle, including design, analysis, prototyping, development, testing, and support.
Website UI / UX Design & Prototype
Our company would like help designing our current website. We are always on the lookout for innovative and fresh UI and UX ideas that will help our users. This will involve: Conducting background research on our existing web application for the product. We are happy to provide a walkthrough and other resources to help bring them up to speed. Identifying key areas of our current website and what areas of focused might return the best results in a redesign. Learning and using various software design tools. We strongly recommend students learn how to use Figma as this is the latest and greatest tool currently available. Creation of a screen by screen UX / UI prototype of a web application which can be used on all major browsers and be mobile friendly Conducting UX / UI testing with real potential users potentially involving paper prototypes or other software tools to support this
New Product Marketing
The Community of Guardians is launching a Nationwide Post-Secondary Launch for Action which aims to localize the SDGs in post secondary communities all across Canada; we aim to facilitate the advancement, measurement and reporting of SDGs as our main objective. We will do this via the in tandem launch of our social learning hub where verified knowledge experts will have a place to share science lessons in plain language alongside an actionable challenge that members who join can choose to accept and complete in their own communities that action the SDGs. We would like to revamp our marketing for this project launch. Together with our marketing team, we would like students to design new promotional material for this new product. Based on our insights and additional research, students will develop promotional marketing materials for our existing media and make recommendations on alternative media to consider. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our target market, products and services. Assessing our existing marketing strategy and efforts. Recommending marketing tactics to promote our new product such as exclusive previews and introductory offers. Designing promotional material for various media. Making multiple versions of marketing materials and testing them for comparison. https://docs.google.com/file/d/1RilB6pIltnDnk1I8O3x6Hi3dVj4gUBif/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=mspresentation
Financial & Business Plan updates
We are a federally incorporated nonprofit who is getting ready to launch and actively seeking funding. We have a business plan that we created upon inception but it is not very accurate and we were hoping someone could help us budget a more realistic one for our launch and requests for funding. With any launch, having a financial plan is one of the keys to success, and we would like to involve students in creating one for our venture. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Learning about our business strategy from various employees to become familiar with our goals, mission, and products. Creating forecasts using Excel (or another financial software) for sales in the first year of operation as well as an income projection (conservative and aggressive). Working with our team to develop an expense budget. Conducting a break-even analysis timeline using financial projections. Reporting on projected assets and liabilities. Including visual comparisons such as graphs and charts to show the differences between the conservative and aggressive income projection.
SDG Ambassadors
We are seeking individuals who are interested in championing an SDG for our Social Learning platform called the Community of Guardians that aims to rally the world to sustainability! We need SDG ambassadors to help us launch and market our platform to users and knowledge experts recruiting both members and potential knowledge experts to share lessons and challenges that support sustainability. https://docs.google.com/file/d/1RilB6pIltnDnk1I8O3x6Hi3dVj4gUBif/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=mspresentation
SDG Ambassadors
We are seeking individuals who are interested in championing an SDG for our Social Learning platform called the Community of Guardians that aims to rally the world to sustainability! We need SDG ambassadors to help us launch and market our platform to users and knowledge experts recruiting both members and potential knowledge experts to share lessons and challenges that support sustainability. https://docs.google.com/file/d/1RilB6pIltnDnk1I8O3x6Hi3dVj4gUBif/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=mspresentation
Developers
We are building an exclusive team of top-notch students and industry professionals who are seeking a way to give back to a world desperately in need of Guardians! If you have felt any sense of dread toward the future, its inhabitants or the natural environment and felt powerless to fix the problem, this is your way to help! We need volunteers to join and create a powerful place where action can happen!