Building Collective Power: Justice Oregon Invests $5.7 million in Collaboratives
Without community, there is no liberation. — Audre Lorde For too long, Black communities have faced chronic underfunding, creating competition for scarce...
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2024 Funding Opportunity
Thank you to everyone who applied to our 2024 Funding Opportunity. We received over 850 applications under our three issue-based priority areas — Our Resilient Places, Our Empowered Youth and Our Collective Prosperity. Our grantmaking team will spend the following months reviewing your proposals. We will inform all applicants of our funding decisions by February 2025 at the latest.
Justice Oregon for Black Lives
Investing with Community
Started in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, Justice Oregon for Black Lives is Meyer's largest initiative to date. It aims to uplift Black Oregonians through deeper, community-specific investments. This video, made by a Justice Oregon grantee, highlights the work of three grantee organizations and explores the intention behind the ongoing initiative.
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Center for Great Purposes Opens for Reservations
Meyer offers a free event space to all current grantees. Organizations with an active Meyer grant may reserve the space and enjoy its many amenities.
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The Arc of Justice
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have loved this quote since I was a kid. But today...
Oregon Leaders You Should Know: Sirius Bonner
Meet Sirius Bonner: the executive director of INTERSECT, an organization redefining what’s possible for gender equity in Oregon. Here she shares what fuels...
Listening and Learning from Our Grantees
For the first time in its history, Meyer has partnered with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to survey our grantees about their work with us. The...
Preserving the Heartbeat of Albina: Billy Webb Elks Lodge
Peering through the newly restored windows of the Billy Webb Elks Lodge, you would never know a fire devastated the building just three years ago. The...
In Uncertain Times, Here is What We are Certain of
In the aftermath of this election, we are faced with a stark reality. For millions of people across the country, the return of Donald Trump to the presidency...
Funding the Fundamentals of a Healthy Democracy: Together, We Rise
“Democracy is not something you have, but something you do. It is a verb.” - Marshall Ganz, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University With the...
Oregon Leaders You Should Know: Erin Kothari
“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody...