Meyer Housing Advocacy RFP opens Feb. 28-April 5

On Feb. 28, Meyer Memorial Trust will release a new Request for Proposals (RFP) through the Affordable Housing Initiative. We’re looking to support community-driven public policy advocacy and community organizing aimed at policy and system changes that will expand the availability of affordable housing to low-income Oregonians.

For the past three years, through AHI, Meyer has supported advocacy work through focused efforts. With this new funding opportunity, Meyer anticipates awarding up to $600,000 through two funding tracks:

  • The Advocacy Mobilizers track will award smaller grants for organizing efforts in the early stages of mobilizing support.

  • The Campaign Leader track will award grants to support more focused and/or fully developed campaigns that have an articulated strategy for changing a specific system or policy.

Each track is described in more detail in the RFP. Proposals for both tracks are due by 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 5, 2017.

This RFP supports the Affordable Housing Initiative goal of promoting advocacy, policy and systems change to increase the availability of affordable housing.

We invite you to two upcoming information sessions about the RFP.

The first session is Thursday, March 2, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, and the second is Monday, March 6, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Please see the RFP for more details.

Please direct any questions to Michael Parkhurst via email at michael [at] mmt.org (michael[at]mmt[dot]org) or by phone at 503-228-5512.

Sharon