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
Leaven Community
2020
$92,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeProject Support
For Bridging the Gap, a project to build community capacity and support leadership development for culturally relevant environmental education in the Willamette River Basin
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Deschutes River Conservancy
2020
$160,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Jefferson
For general operating support of this organization that convenes and facilitates collaborative efforts to meet in-stream and community water needs
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
350Deschutes
2020
$70,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Jefferson
To advocate for and support implementation of clean energy and efficiency upgrades for residents living on low-incomes in Deschutes County
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
Oregon Citizens' Utility Board
2020
$70,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support advocacy for energy policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eliminate environmental justice and affordability inequities
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
Nez Perce Tribe
2020
$138,824
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Wallowa
To integrate Nez Perce tribal knowledge into Wallowa Lake management and explore reintroduction of native sockeye to the lake
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Verde
2020
$240,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this organization that works to secure social and economic benefits for low-income people and people of color through social enterprise, outreach and advocacy
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Coalition of Communities of Color
2020
$75,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To support the Coalition of Communities of Color in efforts to co-create intersectional and innovative solutions that advance climate justice
Grant
Population
- People of color
Cascadia Wildlands
2020
$12,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
Support TypeProject Support
For advocacy to confront damaging post-fire logging of older forests and communications support for local voices in the Umpqua River basin affected by the 2020 Oregon wildfires
Grant
Wallowa Resources
2020
$41,975
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
10 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Wallowa
For diversity, equity and inclusion training at this organization that works to improve environmental education and increase natural resource stewardship, sustainable economic development and rural lands policy collaboration
Grant
Friends of the Columbia Gorge
2020
$30,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Hood River
- Multnomah
- Wasco
For technical assistance to support deeper integration of diversity, equity and inclusion goals into this organization's work to ensure the long-term protection and resilience of the Columbia Gorge
Grant
350PDX
2020
$135,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
Operating support for a grassroots movement fueling climate justice-based solutions that combat systemic inequities
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
NW Energy Coalition
2020
$110,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
30 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To deepen this Seattle-based organization’s work with environmental justice organizations working to advance more just and inclusive energy policy decisions in Oregon
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
North Coast Land Conservancy
2020
$140,940
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Clatsop
- Tillamook
To strengthen equitable and inclusive forest conservation practices on Oregon's North Coast
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People of color
Verde
2020
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For Living Cully, a collaborative that works to address disparities in housing, income, health, education and natural resources in Portland's Cully neighborhood
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Resource Media
2020
$12,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
3 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To produce an executive summary of a report that examines the racial composition of Oregon state environmental agency boards and commissions and describes the challenges and opportunities for more diverse participation
Grant
Population
- People of color
Center for Diversity and the Environment
2020
$3,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
2 months
For participation and webinar support in an educational webinar on advancing racial equity in freshwater funding
Grant
Center for Diversity and the Environment
2020
$127,350
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
13 months
Support TypeProject Support
To support the Environment 2042 Leadership program, which provides training, technical assistance and leadership development for diversity, equity and inclusion to people of color involved in the Willamette River Basin restoration movement
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People of color
High Desert Food & Farm Alliance
2020
$177,942
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Jefferson
To develop and implement a plan that will establish a sustainable, culturally relevant food system in the Warm Springs community
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
American Rivers
2020
$100,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Malheur
For a collaborative effort working with Tribes and ranchers to increase support for protections of more than one million acres of public land in Malheur County
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
2020
$160,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
30 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To mobilize health professionals in the fight against climate change so that the climate justice movement can better serve local and state-wide communities most affected by it
Grant