MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
EIN 82-4320484 · Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis (B05)
What they do
MECRA BRINGS TOGETHER THE MOST COMMITTED and INTREPID REPORTERS OPERATING IN KEY SITES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AT THE PRESENT TIME, WITH SOME of THE MOST SKILLED and DEEPLY KNOWLEDGEABLE ANALYSTS, and IN PARTICULAR SHOWCASE THE WORK of WRITERS WHOSE SKILL SET COMBINES BOTH ELEMENTS, ENABLING THEM BOTH to OBSERVE THE UNFOLDING REALITIES FROM CLOSE UP, to KNOW WHERE to LOOK WITHIN THE HUGE CANOPY of UNFOLDING STORIES IN THE REGION TODAY, and to CORRECTLY INTERPRET WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN. to COMBINE ACTION and THE INSIGHTFUL CONTEMPLATION of ACTION. OUR UNIQUE FOCUS is ON RECRUITING and DISSEMINATING THE VIEWS of PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE FIELD and POSSESS LANGUAGE SKILLS FROM THE REGION, WHO HAVE ACCESS to INFLUENCERS and LOCAL POWER STRUCTURES or DISSIDENTS and WHO PROVIDE ORIGINAL VIEWS ON THE DYNAMICS THAT ARE CHANGING ON THE GROUND. THE RESULT is to IDENTIFY TRENDS THAT WILL AFFECT THE REGION and THE GLOBAL INTERCONNECTED WORLD. THIS WILL HELP PROVIDE THE PUBLIC and POLICYMAKERS WITH INFORMATION
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SETH J FRANTZMANPRINCIPAL OFFICER
SETH J FRANTZMANPRINCIPAL OFFICER
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2018
- Location
- PO BOX 2550, OAK BLUFFS, MA 02557-2550
- County
- Dukes
- In care of
- % LUCY ABBOT
- Primary officer
- SETH J FRANTZMAN, PRESIDENT
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Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2022
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2020
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- MELANSON PC
- NTEE classification
- Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis (B05)
- IRS tax category
- Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis
- Revocation date
- May 15, 2026