Real Business Support. Real Community Building.
Creative Collective connects 350+ Essex County entrepreneurs, makers, nonprofits, and small businesses with active promotion, practical support, consulting, advocacy, and a regional network of more than 100,000 people. Members learn from one another—and have real people in their corner when the work gets complicated.
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How We Help
Creative Collective helps small businesses get seen, brings the right people together, and carries ideas from strategy through execution.
Consulting
Strategy, fundraising, partnerships, and hands-on execution for municipalities, organizations, and businesses.
Membership & Promotion
Active promotion, practical guidance, shared resources, and a 350+ member network ready to help.
Advocacy & Community
We connect businesses, artists, nonprofits, and civic partners to solve shared challenges and strengthen local economies.
Salem Arts Festival
Salem Arts Festival shows what our consulting and community work looks like in action. Since 2019, Creative Collective has co-produced this free, three-day downtown festival with Salem Main Streets—supporting 150+ artists and performers and welcoming more than 10,000 people each year. We lead fundraising, sponsorship, marketing, vendor and artist coordination, production logistics, and on-site execution.
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In Their Words
The Castle – A Board Game Cafe
I joined the Creative Collective because it was exactly what I was looking for as a small business. It was a organization. That sole purpose was to get small businesses and put them put them together. Not only did they put us together but they are helping facilitate ways that we can help one another. And they can help us out. It’s it’s a great opportunity for any and every small business to at least check it out to meet other businesses. To see other opportunities. We were found grant funding through connections that we made through grid collective, and we found a lot of really cool small businesses in the entire North Shore that we didn’t know existed before that it’s just been great since we started. The Castle
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