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
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
2017
$114,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
38 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For collaborative, artist-led projects on tribal reservations that address pressing social issues while sustaining culture
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Portland Community College Foundation
2017
$85,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Columbia
- Washington
For a new Servant Leadership Collaborative at PCC’s Rock Creek Campus that leverages multiple leadership programs in the college system to support student leaders of color
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
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette
2017
$169,799
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Jefferson
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Washington
To build toward Reproductive Justice by deepening equity work within the organization, including assessing and building cultural competence, adapting policies and practices, and building relationships and accountability with community partners
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- Women or girls
Coalition of Community Health Clinics
2017
$146,038
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For technical assistance to help 14 member clinics to design and implement equity-focused community health improvement strategies
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
Store to Door
2017
$10,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
For technical assistance to support diversity, equity and inclusion related training
Grant
The People's Nonprofit Accelerator
2017
$10,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
For participation in the Meyer Capacity Builders Learning Collaborative
Grant
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
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
Coalition of Communities of Color
2017
$10,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For participation in the Meyer Leadership Development Learning Collaborative
Grant
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
New Avenues for Youth
2017
$170,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For a culturally responsive service-delivery system that brings prevention and intervention services to marginalized youth experiencing homelessness or existing on the edge of homelessness in East Multnomah County
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Rural Development Initiatives
2017
$85,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To pilot three diversity, equity and inclusion related leadership development initiatives focused on rural communities
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
Black United Fund of Oregon
2017
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To strengthen this legacy organization, which has responded to the challenges and victories of marginalized communities of color in Oregon for 34 years
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Relief Nursery
2017
$175,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Lane
To increase culturally appropriate services to significantly underserved native families in Lane County and to support an existing native-led steering committee in the ongoing development and oversight of the program
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Gateway to College National Network
2017
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To build internal and external capacity to implement a best practice model for re-engaging rural youth at risk of not completing high school
Grant
Western States Center
2017
$1,750
Building Community
Duration of Award
3 months
To convene funders and social justice organizations to take stock of the changed political environment at the Strengthening Action for Justice forum
Grant
High Desert Museum
2017
$75,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
38 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Baker
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Gilliam
- Grant
- Harney
- Hood River
- Jefferson
- Klamath
- Lake
- Malheur
- Morrow
- Sherman
- Umatilla
- Union
- Wallowa
- Wasco
- Wheeler
To increase this Central Oregon museum's capacity to develop responsive exhibits and programs informed by its diverse community of members
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- People with disabilities