Recent developments at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) are deeply troubling. Hundreds of grants for local projects have been canceled and massive staff reductions raise serious doubts that the agency can meet its statutory mandates.

We need advocates to urge Congress to sustain and protect both funding and staffing for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Take action on the FY26 Mass Cultural Council and Massachusetts Tourism Trust Fund budgets by signing our advocacy letter to the House and Senate.

Share your support for the Creative Sector Agenda with your elected officials.

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.