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
Portland Public Schools
1994
$1,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To teach 18- to 21-year-old special education students organizational skills that make them more employable by helping them purchase a coffee cart and operate a gourmet coffee outlet in partnership with a local coffee company.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$1,200
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To train 15 to 20 sixth graders to care for sick and injured waterfowl and to set up a rehabilitation station on the school grounds.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$1,414
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To provide expanded CD-ROM information resources to 60 senior English class students involved in semester-long research projects in order to improve attendance and achievement.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$1,480
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To enable third and fourth graders to set up a miniature city in which they perform budgeting, banking, recordkeeping, publishing, and management functions that teach real-life skills.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$1,484
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To provide materials for a class in which seventh and eighth graders apply math, science, and engineering concepts to build structural models and duplicate real-life processes such as global warming, product packaging, and time measurement.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$2,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To support field studies that extend learning by inner-city fifth graders about the natural environment and the natural and cultural history of Oregon beyond the confines of their classroom.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$2,464
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which teams of second and fifth graders (with the older children acting as mentors) explore natural environments such as wetlands, making observations, and gathering samples for further study.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$4,655
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To train 60 parents in this low-income attendance area to use computers and to make computer equipment available in a newly created parent center so parents can support their children in the use of computer technology.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$4,940
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To help fifth graders develop a deeper sense of their community through a project in which they investigate the history and culture of the surrounding Lents neighborhood and present their findings in a variety of media.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$4,973
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a computer-based telecommunications exchange between third grade students in Portland and Sydney, Australia, enabling the students to learn about the cultures of one another as well as Internet communication.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$5,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project that challenges ninth grade English students to develop project portfolios based on a curriculum of multicultural literature, writing, and critical thinking delivered through readings, sessions with visiting writers, and field trips.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$5,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which students develop and prepare artwork and writing for exhibit in the school and surrounding community in the form of posters, displays, publications, and public readings.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$5,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which a ninth grade English class and a conceptual physics class collaborate in the study of astronomy and mythology using on-line computer research, culminating in the publication of a magazine related to what they learned.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$5,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a series of field trips for first through third graders so they can study nearby ecosystems and environmental issues related to those systems.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$5,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To develop studio spaces supplied with art and construction materials in kindergarten through second grade classrooms for children to explore, through art projects, subjects relating to science, social studies, and other areas.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$6,990
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project in which students analyze and monitor the water quality of the nearby Columbia Slough, learning about water quality issues and water monitoring instruments, and communicating on-line with other student water monitors elsewhere.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$7,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To allow biology students the opportunity to conduct preliminary DNA research for scientists at Oregon Health Sciences University, where one of JeffersonÕs biology teachers is a working scientist.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$7,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
To help students plan, design, and operate their own art gallery in the auditorium foyer as a means of developing organizational skills and showcasing student art, photography and literary works.
Grant
Portland Public Schools
1994
$7,000
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For an integrated science project in which elementary students and seventh graders will learn firsthand about the properties of water and soil, plant and animal identification, and wetlands ecosystems at nearby Blue Lake.
Grant
Springfield School District
1994
$989
Historical Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For a project that enables students to increase their science knowledge by checking out from the school library shoeboxes containing the instructions and ingredients needed to conduct experiments at home.
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