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- EIN 81-0454544
- (406) 542-6228
- 455 East Main Missoula Mt Missoula MT 59802-0000 USA
- www.mcat.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Television
Mission: Mcat provides video production equipment, facilities, training, and air time for a nominal charge on a nondiscriminatory basis to the public to further the diversity of communications. This benefits the entire missoula community.
Programs: Mcat offers equipment, channel time, and training to anyone in the missoula area who wants to make a television show for and/or about the missoula community. Trainings open to the public are held every month at mcat and each year new producers learn about mcat, and subsequent media technologies. In 2014, 112 adults and 90 children went through the training program. Mcat also provides service to local city and county governments, and the missoula county public school system. This year mcat provided over 320 hours of coverage for city council, boards and commissions and 140 hours for county commissioners and city-county health agencies. For the past five years mcat has participated in the missoula flagship after school program which promotes healthy activity and learning in an after-school environment within various schools across missoula county. Mcat offers local community groups up to 12 hours of time to produce a program. In 2014, mcat produced 390 local programs for local missoula charitable and civic groups. A total of 146 community groups requested the service. Donations to local missoula groups has reached $896,250 since the program started in 2001.