Archipelago Strategies Group, (ASG)

ASG is a minority-owned, marketing and communications consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations succeed in today's culturally diverse and globally connected environment. We provide the unique service of helping businesses, not-for-profits and government organizations to bridge cultural-divides and reach diverse audiences to achieve their goals. To do this, we deliver general marketing and communications consulting services, grassroots engagement strategies, market research and advertising development, as well as digital and social media outreach services. ASG has been involved in multiple successful marketing, communications, and community engagement campaigns. We have provided communications and marketing services to individuals, organizations and companies including - The Board Forum, Johnson Supply, Project Citizenship, Oiste?, candidate for State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, Suffolk Sheriff Steve Tompkins. Current clients include Celticare Health, the Greater Boston Latino Network, and Families for Excellent Schools. These companies have all tapped into Archipelago’s experience and effectiveness in delivering their message and gaining the support of diverse individuals for their initiatives. Recently ASG worked with the City of Boston and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture to implement a neighborhood engagement strategy to ensure that Boston Creates, the city's cultural planning process, reflected the diversity of our great community. To date, a total of 115 community conversations have taken place in all 16-neighborhood clusters, engaging more than 1,500 Bostonians. Conversations were offered in multiple languages to engage Boston residents for whom English is a second language. There was also an active youth team that lead conversations among youth. As a result of the work of ASG, Boston Creates had an unprecedented participation in the cultural planning process in Boston, as compared to similar planning processes in other U.S. cities