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
Causa of Oregon
2017
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Polk
For a civic engagement program that engages Latinos and immigrants through leadership development, coalition building and community advocacy
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Oregon Student Foundation
2017
$155,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Benton
- Clackamas
- Coos
- Deschutes
- Douglas
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Lane
- Linn
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Polk
- Washington
To empower student engagement in civic participation, with an emphasis on students from marginalized populations
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- Women or girls
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center
2016
$65,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
18 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For project support to broaden engagement between the Nez Perce people, Wallowa County residents and organizations at the Wallowa Band Nez Perce Interpretive Center — including a newly built longhouse on traditional Nez Perce land
Grant
On-the-Move Community Integration
2016
$50,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
13 months
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To expand organizational capacity, invest in professional development and create an organizational equity and inclusion plan for this small nonprofit supporting adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Grant
Native American Youth and Family Center
2016
$125,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For project support to continue and expand the Oregon LEAD program, a unique, indigenous based leadership development program for Native American leaders engaged in regional and statewide policy and systems change
Grant
CAPACES Leadership Institute
2016
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Marion
- Polk
To support the planning and development of a leadership development program for Latinos interested in pursuing public service
Grant
Coalition of Communities of Color
2016
$43,750
Building Community
Duration of Award
7 months
To support the Bridges Leadership Development Initiative
Grant
Causa of Oregon
2016
$200,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To support the Oregon For All coalition, a diverse group of social justice nonprofits working to prevent policies that harm immigrant communities and to help set an environment where immigrant integration is seen as a value-add to the economic strength and vitality of our communities
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Mano a Mano Family Center
2016
$60,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Marion
- Polk
To support this organization as it strengthens its infrastructure, board and staff capacity
Grant
Black United Fund of Oregon
2016
$20,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For technical assistance to support board and staff in developing and implementing a financial sustainability plan
Grant
Warm Springs Community Action Team
2016
$98,696
Building Community
Duration of Award
16 months
Counties Served
- Jefferson
To support staff training and development to help promote community development within the Warm Springs Indian Reservation by empowering individuals and groups of people to realize their potential, become self-reliant, and make positive change for themselves, their families and their community
Grant
Oregon Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service (OAASIS)
2016
$90,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To establish a survivor-led Strategic Action Council to increase the engagement of sexual abuse survivors in policy change
Grant
Oregon Justice Resource Center
2016
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this organization working to effectively re-integrate people into their communities after leaving the criminal justice system, and to improve legal representation for the underserved across Oregon
Grant
CASA for Children
2016
$125,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Counties Served
- Columbia
- Multnomah
- Washington
To implement a comprehensive diversity, equity and inclusion plan with multi-level strategies to strengthen culturally responsive advocacy that affirms the racial and ethnic identity development of children of color
Grant
IRCO, Africa House
2016
$10,250
Building Community
Duration of Award
9 months
To support the African Leadership Development Project
Grant
Unite Oregon
2016
$200,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To support the merger of the Center for Intercultural Organizing and Oregon Action, now known as Unite Oregon, to create new opportunities to advance equity across rural and urban Oregon
Grant
Milagro
2016
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support for creative programs at home and in the community
Grant
Black United Fund of Oregon
2016
$40,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To strengthen a student success program that offers one-to-one mentorship and career development planning
Grant
Common Cause Education Fund
2016
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For project support to strengthen the influence and civic engagement of disenfranchised communities by advancing campaign finance reforms aimed at achieving a more inclusive and equitable democracy
Grant
Oregon Tradeswomen
2016
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
13 months
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To expand the Pathways to Success program, which provides pre-apprenticeship training and support to diverse women entering trades careers in the Portland metropolitan region
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