Community Arts Advocates cultivates ongoing fundamental relationships between artists and communities by celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities.

Community Arts Advocates, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding public awareness, participation in and support of the arts through performances and festivals, exhibits and workshops, publicity, educational forums, nonprofit arts management consultation services, and collaborative projects. 

Community Arts Advocates has four basic program and service areas:

• nonprofit arts management services
• multicultural educational programs
• festival and event production and marketing services
• arts advocacy & artists support services

Specific program initiatives include:

• Providing Multicultural Educational Programs for in-school, after-school, community, government and corporate clients.
• Consulting and acting as fiscal agent for individual artists and unincorporated artist associations including 
• Roslindale Open Studios
• Roslindale Arts Alliance
• MusiConnects and Boston Public Quartet
• Jorge Arce and Humano
  
• Summer Arts Internships and Community Arts Service Program for Boston and Cambridge area arts and community nonprofits including Roslindale Open Studios, Friends of Jamaica Pond, Dance Complex, Spontaneous Celebrations, First Thursdays in Jamaica Plain, Eliot School of Fine Arts and KidsArts!
• Advocacy for street artists through the Street Arts and Buskers Advocates web site and publications
• Provide marketing, fundraising, photography, web site and technical services for Friends of Jamaica Pond environmental and arts programs
  

Much of this work is supported by volunteer labor and in-kind contributions. Our financial support comes from four sources:

• Earned income, from event admissions, fiscal fees, publication sales, service contract fees and workshop tuition
• Government grants
• Private foundation grants
• Contributions from individuals and small businesses