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At the June program meeting, Meyer Memorial Trust awarded 45 grants and one program-related investment loan (PRI) for nearly $2.3 million.

In a separate announcement, we recently noted MMT has supassed the $500 million mark in awards to nonprofit organizations, primarily in Oregon and Clark County, Washington. We are acknowledging reaching the half a billion dollars in our ideas4oregon project, asking Oregon's collective brain to suggest creative and innovative ways to kick off the next $500 million.

June awards included 11 Responsive Grants, one PRI, one award under the Willamette River Initiative and 33 Grassroots Grants, listed below.

Responsive Grants

Black Parent Initiative, Portland, OR
Awarded: $121,900
To help strengthen this organization’s financial structure in order to support growth in programs and funding

Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Oregon, Bend, OR
Awarded: $142,000
To strengthen core services for after-school programming and to support youth members' academic success

Camp Fire, Portland Metro Council, Portland, OR
Awarded: $150,000
For general operating support for this organization that serves low-income youth in the Portland metropolitan area

Grantmakers of Oregon and SW Washington, Portland, OR
Awarded: $5,000
To help support the organization’s regional conference in October 2010

High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
Awarded: $150,000
To help stabilize the financial condition of this central Oregon educational facility

Latino Network, Portland, OR
Awarded: $50,000
For infrastructure support and technical assistance of this organization that serves Latino families in east Portland neighborhoods

Little Wheats, Inc., Moro, OR
Awarded: $70,000
To help purchase a facility for early education and child care, including services for Head Start

Metropolitan Family Service, Portland, OR
Awarded: $150,000
For general operating support of this multipurpose community organization that operates programs at 145 sites in the Portland metropolitan area

Oregon State University Foundation, Corvallis, OR
Awarded: $100,000
To support construction of a Native American Cultural Center for OSU students

Sable House, Dallas, OR
Awarded: $120,000
To expand the organization’s assistance to survivors of domestic and sexual violence in Polk County

Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades, Bend, OR
Awarded: $100,000
For general operating support for this health clinic that serves uninsured patients in Deschutes County

Program Related Investment loan

The Conservation Fund, Portland, OR
Awarded: $500,000
For a program related investment loan for forestland acquisition to create Oregon's first new State Forest in 60 years

Willamette River Initiative

Polk Soil and Water Conservation District, Dallas, OR
Awarded: $100,000
To support the Luckiamute River Watershed Council's participation in the Willamette River Initiative's Model Watershed Program

Grassroots Grants

Arts Umbrella, Eugene, OR
Awarded: $22,500
To support music education for students from low income families

Ballet Fantastique, Eugene, OR
Awarded: $24,930
To repair the organization's studio it uses to bring professional-level ballet to Lane County

Bandon Community Youth Center, Bandon, OR
Awarded: $5,000
To support a program that helps students earn community service credits for high school graduation and provides direct assistance to community residents and projects

CASA of Lincoln County, Inc., Newport, OR
Awarded: $19,864
To help this organization expand its advocacy services for abused and neglected children in state care

CAUSA of Oregon, Salem, OR
Awarded: $25,000
To expand services designed to increase Latino civic engagement in central Oregon

Community Sharing Program, Cottage Grove, OR
Awarded: $14,569
To repair and increase energy efficiency at the office of this organization that provides emergency assistance to low income families

Douglas County Children’s Center, Roseburg, OR
Awarded: $11,000
To support counseling programs for children and parent survivors of sexual and physical abuse

Dream Big Community Center, Vancouver, WA
Awarded: $8,500
To support this agency that helps disadvantaged high school youth build self confidence

Educate Ya, Portland, OR
Awarded: $25,000
To support culturally specific HIV/AIDS prevention education for Oregon’s growing Latino population

Food Roots, Tillamook, OR
Awarded: $24,917
To support this organization that promotes growing and consuming healthy food on Oregon’s north coast

Glide Community Club, Glide, OR
Awarded: $9,925
For site improvements to this rural community center

Growing Gardens, Portland, OR
Awarded: $24,965
To strengthen this organization’s volunteer program and services that support home and school food gardening

Harney County Library Foundation, Burns, OR
Awarded: $24,980
To create and equip a room for teens in order to increase their use of this rural eastern Oregon community’s library

Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
Awarded: $15,612
To expand resources that emerging writers and artists use for affordable self-publishing

Komemma Cultural Protection Association, Yoncalla, OR
Awarded: $4,600
To support a residential summer camp that provides cultural programs for children from Native American tribes in Douglas, Lane, Coos and Curry counties

MOMS Club, Astoria, OR
Awarded: $25,000
To replace aging and inaccessible equipment at a school playground that has broad community use

Multiple Sclerosis Society of Portland, OR, Portland, OR
Awarded: $16,842
To create an accessible meeting space for people living with multiple sclerosis

Native Fish Society, Molalla, OR
Awarded: $10,000
To increase protection of fish and fish habitat in the Upper Willamette Valley and Molalla Basin area

New Directions Education Project, Pendleton, OR
Awarded: $4,000
For a program that provides inmates with access to college credit classes

Oregon Health Action Campaign, Gresham, OR
Awarded: $24,750
To support a program to help eligible families access health care services

People for Parks, Fairview, OR
Awarded: $20,531
To support this organization’s after-school activities for children and families in east Multnomah County

Reedsport Church of God, Reedsport, OR
Awarded: $5,000
To support a home repair program that serves low income elderly and disabled homeowners

Ross Ragland Theater, Klamath Falls, OR
Awarded: $25,000
To replace the stage flooring of this 1940 art deco-style theater that brings national and international acts for audiences in Klamath and Lake counties

Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County, Oregon City, OR
Awarded: $8,431
For technology upgrades so this organization can continue serving vulnerable seniors

Siuslaw Area Women’s Center, Florence, OR
Awarded: $10,000
To renovate a shelter that serves women and families escaping domestic violence and abuse

Somali Community Services Coalition, Portland, OR
Awarded: $17,000
To support strategic planning and income development for this organization that helps Somali refugees resettle in Oregon

South Coast Watersheds, Gold Beach, OR
Awarded: $24,500
To develop a local food system in Curry County in order to reduce the distance between food production and consumption

South Lane Family Nursery, Cottage Grove, OR
Awarded: $13,000
To support a strategic plan to expand relief nurseries that help families break the cycle of abuse in Oregon

Sprague River Community Center, Sprague River, OR
Awarded: $4,000
To support this community center that serves residents of rural Klamath County

Ten River Food Web, Corvallis, OR
Awarded: $24,624
To increase consumption of locally-produced food in Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties

Union County Court Appointed Special Advocates, La Grande, OR
Awarded: $4,900
To support this organization that provides advocates for the county’s abused and neglected children in state care

Willamette Master Chorus, Salem, OR
Awarded: $10,000
To assist the agency with strategic and income development planning

Woape, Inc., Brightwood, OR
Awarded: $20,079
To create an educational and vocational service center in Sandy that serves at-risk youth in rural northeast Clackamas County