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
Food Alliance
2019
$35,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For research and development of an equitable Oregon Food Charter that is environmentally and economically resilient and meets the needs of communities of color, Tribes and people living on low-incomes
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Civil Liberties Defense Center
2019
$35,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
13 months
Counties Served
  • Coos
  • Douglas
  • Jackson
  • Klamath
For technical assistance to conduct a feasibility study of this organization that provides legal rights training to support environmental justice efforts in Oregon
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
Center for Diversity and the Environment
2019
$110,472
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
15 months
To support a diversity, equity and inclusion training cohort of Willamette River conservation organizations and the new Willamette River Network
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation
2019
$50,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For project support for collaboration and programming at this organization that works at the intersection of the labor, environmental and environmental justice movements
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Gorge Grown Food Network
2019
$110,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Hood River
  • Sherman
  • Wasco
To support collaborative efforts to advance environmental justice for Latinx and Tribal communities in the Columbia River Gorge
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Oregon Environmental Council
2019
$25,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
6 months
For technical assistance to support an executive director transition
Grant
Ecotrust
2019
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
25 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
To support the Green Workforce Academy, an environmental workforce and career pathways program that provides green job training and creates environmental job opportunities for low-income Black and Native American young adults in the Portland Metro area
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
Long Tom Watershed Council
2019
$2,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
Capacity support for diversity, equity and inclusion training
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Tides Center
2019
$375,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
13 months
To provide year one operating support for the new Willamette River Network
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
350PDX
2019
$9,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
7 months
For technical assistance to support executive director transition for this climate justice advocacy organization
Grant
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council
2019
$77,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
20 months
Support TypeProject Support
For floodplain restoration project design and development along the Lower Coast Fork Willamette near Cottage Grove
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Center for Food Safety
2019
$160,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For a collaborative effort to reduce the negative environmental and community impacts of factory farm dairies and prevent the expansion of these farms in Oregon
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Columbia Slough Watershed Council
2019
$25,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
For strategic planning and capacity building at this organization that engages diverse communities that live in and around Portland's Columbia Slough watershed in land stewardship and restoration efforts
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Health Care Without Harm
2019
$150,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To increase institutional market opportunities for minority and women-owned food businesses in Oregon's community foods system network
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Mount Pisgah Arboretum
2019
$500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
For diversity, equity and inclusion training
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
The Nature Conservancy in Oregon
2019
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Curry
  • Jackson
  • Josephine
To support a collaborative effort addressing escalating wildfire, smoke and a changing climate risks within dry, fire-dependent forests and surrounding communities of the Rogue River Basin in southern Oregon
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
Marys River Watershed Council
2019
$1,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
For diversity, equity and inclusion training
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Beyond Toxics
2019
$25,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
For a statewide summit on environmental justice
Grant
Coalition of Communities of Color
2019
$100,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To hire a dedicated staff person to organize community, support grassroots action and advocate for implementation of the Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF)
Grant
Population
  • People of color
Geos Institute
2019
$66,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Lane
To support the leadership role of Lane County-based environmental justice organizations in the development of a science-based, equitable and ecologically sound County Climate Action Plan
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
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