Community Arts Advocates has a data base of over 3,000 artists, from choirs to storytellers, puppeteers to drummers, and dancers to jugglers, potters to painters. Executive Director, Stephen Baird published the Folk Directory, a comprehensive cultural resource guide for ten years. He also developed grants to conduct community folk life studies to recognize and document new immigrant artists in Massachusetts.

Community Arts Advocates can be an effective and ethical multicultural resource connection from Polish to Vietnamese, Russian to Scottish, Sudanese to Latino artists for schools, museums, community arts centers, festivals, summer park concert series and events.