Create the Vote Boston 2025 will focus on educating candidates running for Mayor and City Council on the value, impact and needs of the creative community.

The MASSCreative Action Network is continuing its long-term campaign of increasing the Mass Cultural Council’s budget to $35 million, or $5 per capita, by urging the Healey-Driscoll Administration to increase the Mass Cultural Council’s FY26 budget (0640-0300) to $28 million. We are also advocating for $17 million for the Massachusetts Tourism Trust Fund and Regional Tourism Councils. Sign on in support today!

Emily Ruddock, MASSCreative’s executive director, shares updates about some of our grassroots organizing and legislative achievements in 2024 and a glimpse of what we are preparing for 2025. 

On November 15, 2024, the MASSCreative Action Network (MCAN) hosted an election debrief with community organizing and policy experts to learn how 2024 federal and state-level election results will impact the creative sector in Massachusetts. Watch the recording here.

Help get the vote out and play your part for a stronger democracy.

Take action today by joining MCAN in signing onto a letter urging President Biden to take executive action and instruct the Bureau of Labor Statistics to include the charitable sector in the Quarterly Census on Employment and Wages.

Make sure you are prepared to vote on November 5: Check out our nonpartisan 2024 General Election Voter Guides.

Check out Create the Vote's nonpartisan election guides for the 2024 MA State Primaries to see who is running in your district.

Read the sector’s letter to the FY25 Budget Conference Committee.

Read the sector’s letter to the Economic Development Bond Bill Conference Committee.