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
CAPACES Leadership Institute
2018
$50,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
8 months
To strengthen Alianza Poder, working to strategize and mobilize Oregon's Latinx community, and to develop the People's Representative programs, which offer public service training for Marion and Polk County residents
Grant
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
2018
$200,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
To fund the Census Equity Funders Committee of Oregon, a statewide community engagement effort to ensure a fair, accurate and equitable Census 2020 count, focused on hard-to-count communities
Grant
Rural Development Initiatives
2018
$25,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
To expand a curriculum focused on equity and rural leadership for Latino youth in partnership with EUVALCREE, an Ontario-based nonprofit working to build community social capital and leadership capacity
Grant
Partnership for Safety and Justice
2018
$225,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
38 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support to reduce over-incarceration and promote survivor-centered justice reform in Oregon
Grant
Population
- Crime/abuse survivors
- People of color
- Women or girls
Social Justice Fund Northwest
2018
$180,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To support Giving Projects in Oregon, which organizes volunteers across divisions of race and class to be social justice donors, fundraisers and grantmakers
Grant
Population
- People of color
Museum at Warm Springs
2018
$200,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
To support 25th anniversary events, including the museum's hosting of original documents of the Treaty of 1855, companion programming and a three-day symposium on Treaty Rights
Grant
Huerto de la Familia - Family Garden
2018
$45,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Lane
To help fund a garden program coordinator position that will increase Huerto's capacity to deliver food security and leadership development to Latinx families in Lane County
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center
2018
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
To develop sustainability plan for this agency that preserves and interprets the rich history of African Americans and others in the rural northeastern Oregon railroad logging community of Maxville
Grant
Boys and Girls Club of Corvallis
2018
$9,790
Building Community
Duration of Award
5 months
For technical assistance to support diversity, equity and inclusion training and implementation planning for up to 75 youth serving organizations in the region.
Grant
Oregon Justice Resource Center
2018
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To fund improved legal representation of immigrants, women, people from underserved communities and those wrongfully convicted by the criminal justice system
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- Women or girls
Youth Rising
2018
$74,709
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Klamath
To hire certified peer support specialists as part of a project that will expand mental health services at a youth drop-in center serving Klamath County
Grant
Population
- Crime/abuse survivors
- People living on low incomes
Coalition of Communities of Color
2018
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
13 months
To support Bridges — six culturally-specific leadership development programs led by CCC member organizations — through collaborative planning, resource development and alumni connections to employment opportunities and civic engagement
Grant
ALF Oregon
2018
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support strategic and business planning that will allow the nonprofit to better advance its mission of increasing representation of leaders of color from across Oregon
Grant
Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality
2018
$50,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
To create a formal structure and curriculum to organize, train and empower Spanish-speaking Latino parent leaders on social justice in education and civic representation
Grant
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2018
$225,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
38 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For operating support to help the nonprofit champion and highlight underrepresented and historically marginalized artists
Grant
Population
- People of color
Urban League of Portland
2018
$74,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Benton
- Clackamas
- Deschutes
- Lincoln
- Linn
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Polk
- Umatilla
- Washington
To support and develop a leadership program that will cultivate young professionals and entrepreneurs in the black, African-American and Pan-African immigrant communities in Portland
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People of color
- Women or girls
Senior Advocates for Generational Equity
2018
$19,080
Building Community
Duration of Award
5 months
To develop a three-year strategic and resource development plan with an integrated diversity, equity and inclusion focus
Grant
Independent Publishing Resource Center
2018
$90,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To help fund 15 studio residencies for black, indigenous and people of color writers and visual artists
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People of color
Friends of the Children of the Klamath Basin
2018
$25,275
Building Community
Duration of Award
10 months
To fund diversity, equity and inclusion training for a consortium of child welfare serving organizations in Klamath County so they, in turn, may provide more responsive services to culturally diverse youth and caregivers
Grant
Evolve Workforce & Multifamily Housing Services
2018
$50,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For capacity building support to expand programming and increase profitability and bankability
Grant