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How To Share CreativeGround

  Share CreativeGround as a free resource with your creative community

Sharing CreativeGround with your community strengthens the entire New England Creative Economy Network. The more people use and contribute to the directory, the more powerful it becomes as a tool to connect, celebrate, and support creative work in your community and beyond.

By sharing CreativeGround, you:

  • Bring visibility to the creative people and places in your community and the region
  • Foster meaningful connections within your part of the network
  • Empower your creative constituents with valuable information to shine brighter

Thank you to our current Community Leaders, who are making strides in providing visibility and support to their creative communities. We (along with Creative New England) appreciate your efforts!

Below are some ideas for how to share CreativeGround. Reach out to the CreativeGround team if you have new ideas or questions about how to spread the word with your community—your insights can inspire others across the network.

Promote CreativeGround in your emails, newsletter, and other communications with your constituents, including grantees. Visit the CreativeGround Materials Library to access the following:

  • A variety of assets to download/access and create your own materials, including:
    • Boilerplate copy (text to copy/paste)
    • CreativeGround logos (files for download)
    • Simple text to go alongside the CreativeGround logo [note to self: need to add this to the library]
    • ...and more!
  • Ready-to-use materials to download and distribute, including:
    • NEW! CreativeGround Introduction one-pager
    • Digital mini cards for print
    • Intro video
    • Handouts that target various artist/organization types
    • ...and more!
  • Customizable materials to copy and make your own  
    • NEW! CreativeGround Introduction one-pager template
    • (Note, this section will grow over time as more templates are created for additional use cases.)

There are also a variety of resources and materials on the Dig In As page to support your engagement with specific audiences (performing artists vs visual artists vs nonprofits, etc.). Visit the About page for detailed language on how CreativeGround’s mission fits into the big picture of a thriving New England.

Growth of the New England Creative Economy Network takes a village! We can help! Tell us the specific groups you’re inviting to CreativeGround so the admin team can track activity on our end, avoid duplicating efforts, and be prepared to provide tailored support.

 The CreativeGround team offers: 

  • Direct one-on-one phone conversation and online demonstration of how CreativeGround might meet your needs
  • Template emails that can be used to invite your network to create or update profiles.
  • Technical support via email and phone, specifically for individuals who need assistance creating a user account, creating a profile, or updating a profile.
  • As able, providing an in-person workshop for organizations, artists, and creative businesses directed at demonstrating how to create and update a profile.

But you can host events on your own! (for everything you need to host an event, please visit our Grow Your Skills page)

For most live events, we have product-based swag. Materials (such as mini promo cards, handouts, and even customizable materials) are available for download in the Materials Library.

If you are aware of events that you or other Partners are hosting, let us know! 

CreativeGround is also happy to cross-promote relevant activities (events, resources, etc.) in our communications, according to our guidelines in the Partner Menu. 

NOTE: NEFA promotes professional development, open calls and other opportunities for the community. NEFA/CreativeGround does not currently promote performance events or showcases, arts exhibits, etc.

Connect with the CreativeGround community on social media. Follow our social media pages and tag us in your posts:

Instagram​  Instagram: @CreativeGround.NEFA ​

Faceboook  Facebook: @NEFA 

Instagram is the only social media account that is exclusively CreativeGround. (though we of course share NEFA activities!)  We’ll be hosting takeovers of this account with CreativeGrounders. Let us know if YOU are interested or if you know a great creative individual or organization that would be a delightful Instagram takeover host by submitting the Spotlight a Profile webform. 

Use these Tags

  • Share your stories of connection and use of CreativeGround to demonstrate how amazing, resilient, and broad the New England creative economy is with: #CreativeGround #ConnectWithCreativeNewEngland #CreativeNewEngland #NewEnglandCreativeEconomy
  • We regularly use these tags when uplifting exemplary profiles and awesome arts communities represented on the site: #FoundOnCreativeGround #SearchCreativeGround
  • For sharing our Profile Score Tips, use #TechTipTuesday 

Direct Link 

  • Send folks to the CreativeGround homepage (www.creativeground.org)
  • Send folks to filtered Search Results for your community (For more details on how to use Search filters, visit our FAQ). Some examples include:
  • Include the CreativeGround logo (available for download in the Materials Library) alongside your direct links

CreativeGround Application Programming Interface (API)

We're excited to invite partners across New England to use CreativeGround as a centralized resource for showcasing the creative economy in their communities. The new CreativeGround API (Application Programming Interface) allows for integration of any front-facing directory data from CreativeGround into another website’s styling and layout. Learn more by visiting the Explore Partner Opportunities page

SHINE A LIGHT on your creative community

Learn the importance of community participation for accurate data in the directory to bring more visibility to profiles

Learn How to Shine a Light

GROW YOUR SKILLS to better support your creative community

Learn how to train your community members to use CreativeGround so that they can gain visibility, access useful information, and make meaningful connections.

Level Up and Grow Your Skills

Explore PARTNER Opportunities

Gain special access, including an API (Application Programming Interface) that integrates CreativeGround data right into your website.

Learn more about Partnerships