Awards Database

Since 1982, Meyer has awarded grants and program-related investments totaling more than $930 million to more than 3,500 organizations around the Pacific Northwest. 

Awards Since Inception

41
Years
3,500
Organizations
$930m
Awarded

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This database includes more than 9,000 grant awards Meyer Memorial Trust has made since 1982. It is updated quarterly. Use the filters below or search to refine your view. For assistance with more complex inquiries into Meyer's grants, please contact our Grant Operations team at grantops [at] mmt.org (grantops[at]mmt[dot]org).

Awards Database

Awardee
Year
Type
Amount
Category
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2018
$45,181
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To fund civic engagement and voter education efforts that will engage more young people in the democratic process
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
  • Women or girls
ReBuilding Center
2018
$61,087
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
To fund board and staff participation in diversity, equity and inclusion assessment, training, and planning
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
  • Women or girls
REACH Community Development
2018
$72,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To help integrate diversity, equity and inclusion programming across the entirety of this community development organization active in the Portland area
Grant
Population
  • People of color
  • Women or girls
Todos Juntos
2018
$30,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
To enhance and continue kindergarten readiness and parent engagement programs in rural Clackamas County
Grant
Population
  • English language learners
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades
2018
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Crook
  • Deschutes
  • Jefferson
To build sustainable funding streams that will help develop and deliver culturally-responsive healthcare to uninsured patients in and around Bend
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
World Stage Theatre
2018
$25,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Lane
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
For support that will help bring the "Who I Am Celebrating Me" project to a wider audience, including schools in rural areas
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Native American Youth and Family Center
2018
$60,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
13 months
For building up the capacity of NAYA’s rental housing stability program so it can increase access to private market rental housing and culturally specific services to people of color, especially Native Americans, experiencing homelessness
Grant
Native American Youth and Family Center
2018
$61,667
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To eliminate barriers to student achievement so secondary school students in Portland's Native American community can be better prepared for college and beyond
Grant
Population
  • First-generation college students
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
2018
$200,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
To fund the Census Equity Funders Committee of Oregon, a statewide community engagement effort to ensure a fair, accurate and equitable Census 2020 count, focused on hard-to-count communities
Grant
ACCESS
2018
$110,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Jackson
To replicate a debt relief and flexible funding strategy that will remove rental barriers for people with criminal histories in Jackson County. FYI- This project is in partnership with Urban League who will test concept in Multnomah County, and Northwest Housing Alternatives who will test in Clackamas County.
Grant
Initiative
Affordable Housing Initiative
Population
  • People of color
  • People who were formerly incarcerated
Association of Northwest Steelheaders
2018
$15,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Benton
  • Clackamas
  • Clatsop
  • Columbia
  • Deschutes
  • Hood River
  • Lane
  • Lincoln
  • Linn
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Tillamook
  • Washington
  • Yamhill
To support diversity, equity and inclusion training and planning for both board and staff, as well as outreach to cultivate more women members
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
  • Women or girls
Beyond Toxics
2018
$86,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Jackson
  • Josephine
  • Lane
To fund a collaborative that will address environmental racism, health and justice issues affecting Blacks, Latino and immigrant communities in Jackson, Josephine and Lane counties
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Central Oregon LandWatch
2018
$100,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Deschutes
To advance sustainable city design, improved urban services for underrepresented communities and the preservation of natural resources in Bend and surrounding areas
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
  • People with disabilities
Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts
2018
$80,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this network comprised of twenty land trusts working to advance land conservation in Oregon
Grant
Columbia Slough Watershed Council
2018
$20,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
For implementing an organization-wide diversity, equity and inclusion plan that will strengthen relationships with communities of color located in the Columbia Slough wetlands and waterways as well as the surrounding communities of North and Northeast Portland, Gresham and Fairview
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
Chinook Indian Nation
2018
$50,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clatsop
  • Columbia
To purchase, protect and restore the Confederated Lower Chinook Tribes and Bands' historically and culturally important 1851 Tansy Point treaty grounds in Warrenton
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
Crag Law Center
2018
$100,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support to continue free and low-cost legal services to communities, conservation groups, and Tribes working for environmental justice and stewardship
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Elkton Community Education Center
2018
$2,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Douglas
To increase rural youth employment and to enhance the local pollinator habitat by adapting ECEC's native plant nursery into a job training site
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People with disabilities
Elkton Community Education Center
2018
$75,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Douglas
To increase pollinator habitat in the Umpqua River Basin and employment for rural youth and youth with disabilities by adapting Elkton Community Education Center's native plant nursery into a job training site
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People with disabilities
Farmers Conservation Alliance
2018
$39,824
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Baker
  • Crook
  • Deschutes
  • Hood River
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Klamath
  • Malheur
  • Wallowa
To design an equity-focused community benefits strategy for integration into Farmers Conservation Alliance's work with communities that carry out irrigation modernization projects in rural Oregon
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
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