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Name:	American Near East Refugee Aid
Address:	1111 14th Street NW, Suite 400
	Washington, DC 20005
Phone:	202-266-9700
Web Address:	www.anera.org
Also known as: ANERA

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

ANERA builds clinics, works to improve water and sanitation systems, creates educational opportunities, aims to improve health delivery services, feeds children, and creates jobs in underserved communities in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, and Lebanon. ANERA's programs are in community and economic development, education, health, and public education. It strives to help local institutions become more self-sufficient and effective in serving their communities. ANERA’s health service programs are in the form of donated medicines and medical supplies distributed to healthcare providers in the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon. ANERA also extends grants for local health care institutions to upgrade facilities and funds a nutrition project that supplies preschoolers with snacks of fortified milk and enriched wafers. Along with micro-credit loans to farmers, fishermen, and small businesses for expansion of their operations, ANERA helps municipalities with costs of water, road, and other upgrades in infrastructure. In the West Bank and Gaza, information technology centers funded by ANERA train university graduates, students, and business people in computer software and applications. Scholarships from ANERA pay for school expenses of handicapped, orphaned, and destitute children.

For the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011, ANERA's program expenses were:

Health services	46,963,371
Community and economic developement	20,869,380
Education	1,862,556
Public education	32,318
Total Program Expenses:	$69,727,625

Chief Executive : William D. Corcoran, President

Compensation*:

$223,875

Chair of the Board: Edward W. Gnehm, Jr.
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Board Size: 31

Paid Staff Size: 78

*June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, telemarketing, special events, grant proposals, Internet appeals, and planned giving.

Fund raising costs were 1% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $74,056,395, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on ANERA's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011.

Source of Funds
In-kind contributions	47,200,643
Grant revenue	22,219,053
Contributions	4,636,699
Other income	120,411
Return of funds	-2,746,497
Total Income	$71,430,309

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 95%  Fund Raising: 1%  Administrative: 4%

Total income				$71,430,309
	Program expenses			$69,727,625
	Fund raising expenses			664,248
	Administrative expenses			2,656,060
Total expenses				$73,047,933
Expenses in Excess of Income				(1,617,624)
Beginning net assets				9,354,338
Ending net assets				7,736,714
Total liabilities				2,044,181
Total assets				$9,780,895

Note: According to ANERA's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011, the organization received in-kind contributions in the amount of $44,340,193 which represents pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.