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
IRCO, Asian Family Center
2017
$85,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
13 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To develop a senior fellows program through the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Institute
Grant
August Wilson Red Door Project
2017
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For technical assistance for strategic planning.
Grant
Population
  • Crime/abuse survivors
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Oregon Public Health Institute
2017
$25,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
8 months
To create a three-year business plan and communications and marketing strategy for this health equity capacity builder that works with organizations and government agencies focused on influencing the social determinants of health and health outcomes
Grant
Oregon Public Broadcasting
2017
$110,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
28 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For the "Changing Northwest" desk, which covers equity, race, identity and opportunities while seeking out diverse sources and centering the perspectives of those whose voices have historically been ignored
Grant
Population
  • All/General
Verde
2017
$41,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To expand the Lideres Verdes (Green Leaders) program to reach new and more diverse communities living in the broader Portland Metropolitan area
Grant
Gorge Grown Food Network
2017
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Hood River
  • Sherman
  • Wasco
For technical assistance for planning, development and implementation of a DEI strategy
Grant
Population
  • All/General
Voz Workers' Rights Education Project
2017
$130,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
To increase fundraising capacity, strengthen internal systems and build organizational knowledge at this worker-led agency that empowers immigrants and day laborers to improve their working conditions and protect their civil rights
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Portland State University Foundation
2017
$133,604
Building Community
Duration of Award
30 months
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Polk
  • Washington
To build the capacity of Oregon nonprofits to understand and use equity-related data and co-produce data literacy curricula and training tools that are responsive to diverse needs
Grant
NeighborWorks Umpqua
2017
$70,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
17 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Coos
  • Curry
  • Douglas
  • Jackson
  • Josephine
To build support for policies that provide people of color and low-income families with the power and resources they need to thrive
Grant
Population
  • All/General
Main Street Alliance of Oregon
2017
$23,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
8 months
To engage and support small business owners of color around public policy
Grant
Elders in Action
2017
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
For capacity building support to plan and develop a framework for an “Elder Advocacy Coalition” among organizations focused on diverse, vulnerable and low income people aged 60 and older
Grant
Population
  • All/General
Forward Together
2017
$175,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To build support for policies that provide people of color and low-income families with the power and resources they need to thrive
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
  • Women or girls
IRCO, Slavic Network of Oregon
2017
$81,500
Building Community
Duration of Award
13 months
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To engage Slavic leadership graduates in experiential learning to gain advocacy skills
Grant
August Wilson Red Door Project
2017
$60,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support performances of Hands Up in Oregon communities beyond Portland, for development of an original work incorporating law enforcement perspectives
Grant
Population
  • Crime/abuse survivors
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Gorge Grown Food Network
2017
$40,754
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Hood River
  • Sherman
  • Wasco
For the Mid-Columbia Gorge Food Security Coalition, working to improve food security and the availability of nutritious options in Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties, and in the Umatilla and Warm Springs Indian reservations
Grant
Population
  • All/General
We Can Do Better
2017
$20,900
Building Community
Duration of Award
9 months
To support a community-engaged strategic planning process to address shifting policy roles among statewide health promotion organizations seeking to advance health equity
Grant
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
2017
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Jackson
For comprehensive diversity, equity and inclusion training at this regional repertory theatre in Ashland, to institutionalize a culture of inclusion and equitable practices aimed at better engaging diverse communities in core programming and increasing its impact field-wide
Grant
Population
  • People of color
Western States Center
2017
$85,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To implement the Two Spirit Justice Program, which develops tribal leaders as effective advocates and ensures that equitable access and opportunities for Two Spirit/LGBTQ tribal community members
Grant
Health Care Without Harm
2017
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 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
  • Women or girls
Washington Progress Fund
2017
$140,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support AmplifyNW in building nonpartisan, culturally specific pathways to elected and appointed office in Oregon through hands-on intensive coaching and mentorship in partnership with community-based organizations
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
  • Women or girls
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