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
REACH Community Development
2017
$250,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapital Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To develop 198 units of new permanent, affordable rental housing in Portland's Kenton neighborhood, countering the historic displacement of Portland's African American community.
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
Resolutions Northwest
2017
$249,102
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To implement and test a restorative justice plan to reduce disproportionate discipline for youths of color in East Multnomah County’s Reynolds School District
Grant
Population
- People of color
Sustainable Northwest
2017
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Clatsop
- Coos
- Curry
- Douglas
- Lane
- Lincoln
- Tillamook
To pilot and scale efforts to establish community forests in coastal drinking watersheds, enhancing stewardship and benefiting local communities
Grant
Population
- Aging/elderly
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
Umpqua Community College
2017
$249,795
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Douglas
For a continuum of career preparation experiences to align priority youth in Douglas County with employer needs
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
2017
$250,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For a district and community-based partner collaboration in the Reynolds School District in East Multnomah County to develop culturally-specific and culturally-responsive practices aimed at making significant impact on student achievement
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Ascent Funding
2017
$120,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To continue providing access to capital, mentorship and resources to minority- and women-owned small businesses and businesses in underserved communities in the Portland metro area
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- Women or girls
All Hands Raised
2017
$150,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To build capacity for systems change by deepening school community integration with culturally specific organizations in six Multnomah County school districts
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Bag and Baggage Productions
2017
$171,760
Building Community
Duration of Award
38 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Columbia
- Multnomah
- Washington
- Yamhill
To increase understanding of how to advance equity through the arts and build more diverse audiences by commissioning new adaptations of Shakespeare’s “Problem Plays” by emerging, Oregon-based playwrights of color
Grant
Population
- People of color
Better Together Central Oregon
2017
$105,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Jefferson
To build an education data system that aligns community and education organizations efforts to improve priority student outcomes in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- People with disabilities
Black Parent Initiative
2017
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For the implementation of a strategic plan to increase health outcomes within the black community in Portland's metropolitan area
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- Women or girls
Boys and Girls Club of Salem, Marion and Polk Counties
2017
$140,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Marion
- Polk
To equip underserved youth in Marion and Polk counties with life skills, academic proficiency and educational momentum to excel in high school through the “Be Great By 8th” program
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Building Blocks To Success Corporation
2017
$145,360
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To provide STEM education programming for underserved and underrepresented youth in North and Northeast Portland
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Building Healthy Families
2017
$150,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Baker
- Wallowa
To reduce barriers and increase school and life success for priority students in Baker and Wallowa counties
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People with disabilities
Children's Institute
2017
$175,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To engage critical community leaders in shaping and delivering Children's Institute's 2019 statewide advocacy agenda
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- People with disabilities
Cascade AIDS Project
2017
$113,016
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Columbia
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Washington
- Yamhill
To expand Prism Health, an LGBTQ+ primary care and mental health center
Grant
Population
- Aging/elderly
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- People with disabilities
- Women or girls
Unite Oregon
2017
$175,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To train parents in communities of color in Multnomah County's David Douglas School District in cross cultural leadership development
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Central Oregon Community College
2017
$175,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Deschutes
- Jefferson
To improve high school graduation and college enrollment rates for Latino and Native American students in Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Children First for Oregon
2017
$125,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Coos
- Hood River
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Josephine
- Lane
- Malheur
- Tillamook
- Umatilla
- Wasco
- Washington
To host community conversations and engage communities across 11 rural locations to deepen understanding of local issues, develop infrastructure for ongoing engagement and generate solutions to meet the diverse needs of Oregon's children
Grant
Population
- All/General
Clackamas Workforce Partnership
2017
$101,776
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
To engage the network of Clackamas Workforce Partnership service agencies in diversity, equity and inclusion work to identify and dismantle system barriers for people seeking employment opportunities in the county
Grant
Population
- All/General
College Dreams
2017
$175,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Douglas
- Jackson
- Josephine
To enroll 280 new 5th-12th grade students from low-income, first generation and underrepresented communities, and to provide evidence-based college and career readiness services for 1,200 program participants in Douglas, Jackson and Josephine counties
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- People with disabilities