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
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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
Molalla River School District
1994
$4,810
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which five classrooms of second graders will rear in aquariums and release 250 Chinook salmon and 250 rainbow trout and communicate what they learn in the process by producing art work, reports, graphs, and books.
Grant
Molalla River School District
1994
$5,650
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To enable fourth and fifth grade classesÐwith the aid of adult professionals and volunteersÐto design and construct a greenhouse for use in science and other classes.
Grant
Myrtle Point School District
1994
$1,350
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To supply kindergartners with theme bags, which contain a variety of materials, toys, and games that the children can take home for a few days at a time to use in shared learning experiences with their parents.
Grant
Pacific Crest Community School
1994
$2,520
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For an oral history theater project in which sixth through twelfth graders learn interviewing skills and then create theatrical performances from life stories they collect from older adults.
Grant
North Clackamas School District #12
1994
$1,500
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To enhance physics classes for eleventh and twelfth grade students through a high-speed video camera to record, play back, and evaluate various experiments.
Grant
North Clackamas School District #12
1994
$3,308
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To improve data collection in science class experiments by recycling and modifying 15 outdated computers to work with instruments that measure such factors as pH, temperature, sound, and electric current.
Grant
North Wasco County School District
1994
$1,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To enhance the horticultural studies of fourth graders by providing heat and light to a restored greenhouse at the school, making it available for use year-round.
Grant
Relief Nursery
1994
$314,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
36 months
For an outreach program of intervention and support for low-income families whose young children are at risk of abuse or neglect.
Grant
Riddle School District
1994
$1,498
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To enable fourth graders in this small, rural school district to participate in 16 weeks of intensive study of four geographical regions of the world, using a combination of methods, including telecommunication access to classrooms in Japan and Indonesia.
Grant
Ridgefield School District
1994
$5,850
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which eleventh graders develop greater mastery of art, literature, and social studies by creating a mobile museum that teaches the lessons of the Holocaust and the American civil rights movement.
Grant
Rogue River School District
1994
$2,232
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To support fourth graderÕs study of OregonÕs land forms, history, industries and resources, weather and climate, and flora and fauna through multimedia material, field trips, guest speakers, and hands-on projects.
Grant
Sacred Heart Catholic School
1994
$2,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For equipment to enhance the writing and computer skills of sixth graders to enable them to compile chronicles of school history and events, and write articles for the school newspaper.
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$2,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To support a project in which tenth through twelfth graders will study genetics and biotechnology, particularly through DNA lab exercises, and learn about opportunities in these fields.
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$2,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which senior physics students will design and construct solar electric Lego cars, and then share the concepts they have learned about physics and alternative energy sources with elementary school children.
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$4,170
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which seventh graders will apply subject-matter skills to a real-world problem Ð the survival of endangered species Ð by designing a theoretical captive breeding program and facility, which will be evaluated by zoo experts.
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$4,306
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To integrate all academic subjects with the study of five cultures: Native American, Asian, Mexican, African, and European in a seventh and eighth grade school within a school.
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$5,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For Partners in Physics Education, in which high school physics students will teach physics lessons to elementary school children, keep in touch with the children by facsimile and electronic mail as they develop projects, and then return to the elementary
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$5,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To provide fifth and sixth graders, many of whom come from low-income homes, with greater skill in using computers as tools for research, writing, and problem solving.
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$6,987
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To enhance student skills in communication, leadership, writing, and art by forming a teen video production crew from two schools to develop five short documentaries and a biweekly program on teen issues to run on local cable access.
Grant
Salem-Keizer School District
1994
$7,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which teachers will learn hands-on methods of teaching science to young children and then work with volunteer professional scientists to offer workshops for every classroom in the school.
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