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
Portland Community Media
2018
$135,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For funding transformative career advancement by Black filmmakers in Portland through mentorship, instruction, professional experience and the presentation of new work
Grant
Population
- People of color
Portland Jobs with Justice Education Fund
2018
$170,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
37 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For capacity building to build equity and inclusiveness at this agency that gathers labor, community, student and faith voices to shape the public discourse on worker's rights and the economy.
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People of color
Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center
2018
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
25 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For funding a human resources department and additional professional development training that will help champion the nonprofit's goal of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Self Enhancement, Inc.
2018
$99,600
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For supporting the Portland African American Leadership Forum implement a newly adopted, community-driven strategic business plan
Grant
Population
- Aging/elderly
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Social Justice Fund Northwest
2018
$180,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To support Giving Projects in Oregon, which organizes volunteers across divisions of race and class to be social justice donors, fundraisers and grantmakers
Grant
Population
- People of color
Urban League of Portland
2018
$74,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Benton
- Clackamas
- Deschutes
- Lincoln
- Linn
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Polk
- Umatilla
- Washington
To support and develop a leadership program that will cultivate young professionals and entrepreneurs in the black, African-American and Pan-African immigrant communities in Portland
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People of color
- Women or girls
Western States Center
2018
$125,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
37 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For strategic planning funding that will strengthen the digital, finance and development systems of this Oregon-based organization working to advance inclusive democracy and civic engagement
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People of color
- Women or girls
Willamette Valley Law Project
2018
$184,500
Building Community
Duration of Award
37 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Benton
- Clackamas
- Linn
- Marion
- Polk
- Washington
To support and strengthen the communications, advocacy and organizing platforms of Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) so it may better serve farmworkers and Latinx working families
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation and Development
2018
$7,800
Building Community
Duration of Award
11 months
To fund a technical assistance grant to the Oregon Farm to School and School Garden Network so it can engage staff in diversity, equity and inclusion training and support related organizational self-assessments
Grant
Communities United for People
2018
$15,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
6 months
To support the redesign of Freedom To Thrive’s website, including its visual design and content, allowing the organization to effectively convey its movement building and social justice platform
Grant
Evolve Workforce & Multifamily Housing Services
2018
$60,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Benton
- Clackamas
- Linn
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Polk
- Washington
- Yamhill
For capacity building support to establish a workforce training, employment and job placement program at this organization that increases economic opportunity for farmworkers, their families and communities
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Friends of the Children of the Klamath Basin
2018
$25,275
Building Community
Duration of Award
10 months
To fund diversity, equity and inclusion training for a consortium of child welfare serving organizations in Klamath County so they, in turn, may provide more responsive services to culturally diverse youth and caregivers
Grant
Girls Build
2018
$20,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
6 months
To fund consultants who will provide strategic planning and equity training for the organization's board and staff
Grant
Greater Oregon Behavioral Health
2018
$10,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
For staff diversity, equity and inclusion training to build capacity for continued organizational equity work
Grant
Initiative
Affordable Housing Initiative
Horizon Project
2018
$10,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
For staff diversity, equity and inclusion training and an assessment and review of organizational policies
Grant
Initiative
Affordable Housing Initiative
Homes for Good Housing Agency
2018
$10,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
For diversity, equity and inclusion trainings for the staff and board members
Grant
Initiative
Affordable Housing Initiative
Housing Authority of Clackamas County
2018
$10,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
For diversity, equity and inclusion training and to build organizational capacity for equity work
Grant
Initiative
Affordable Housing Initiative
Huerto de la Familia - Family Garden
2018
$5,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
3 months
For staff capacity to participate in a series of convenings to build community among groups working on culturally-relevant environmental education in the Willamette River Basin
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
North Portland Community Works
2018
$5,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
3 months
To support Camp ELSO staff capacity to participate in a series of convenings to build community among groups working on culturally-relevant environmental education in the Willamette River Basin
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Luckiamute Watershed Council
2018
$53,540
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
21 months
To increase salmon rearing habitat at Luckiamute Landing State Natural Area, a 925-acre Oregon State Parks property near the confluence of the Luckiamute, Santiam and Willamette rivers
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative