Responsive Grants Content

Content Area:  Human Services Award Date:  Jun 1 2011 Grant Amount:  120000.00 Reason For Grant:  To support early childhood and out-of-school-time care while the agency works to increase earned income City:  Coos Bay County:  Coos State:  OR

Content Area:  Health Award Date:  Jun 1 2011 Grant Amount:  75000.00 Reason For Grant:  To expand support services for at-risk mothers of newborns in Marion County City:  Salem County:  Marion State:  OR

Content Area:  Health Award Date:  Jun 1 2011 Grant Amount:  100000.00 Reason For Grant:  For general operating support of a free medical clinic that serves low-income, uninsured people in Lane County City:  Springfield County:  Lane State:  OR

Content Area:  Conservation, Environment Award Date:  Jun 1 2011 Grant Amount:  150000.00 Reason For Grant:  For core support to permanently protect outstanding Oregon rivers for the benefit of fish, wildlife and people City:  Portland County:  Multnomah State:  OR

Content Area:  Public Affairs, Social Benefit Award Date:  May 1 2011 Grant Amount:  30000.00 Reason For Grant:  For in-kind support City:  Portland County:  Multnomah State:  OR

Content Area:  Human Services Award Date:  Jun 1 2011 Grant Amount:  125000.00 Reason For Grant:  To increase income development to support shelter and other services for people experiencing homelessness City:  Bend County:  Deschutes State:  OR

Content Area:  Public Affairs, Social Benefit Award Date:  Jun 1 2011 Grant Amount:  150000.00 Reason For Grant:  To support the Coalition's work to advance sustainable, equitable communities in the Portland metropolitan region City:  Portland County:  Multnomah State:  OR

Content Area:  Human Services Award Date:  Jun 1 2011 Grant Amount:  150000.00 Reason For Grant:  To create an Advocacy Center that provides comprehensive, holistic victim-centered services to survivors of domestic violence in Washington County City:  Hillsboro County:  Washington State:  OR

At our September program meeeting, MMT trustees awarded 19 grants for more than $3.1 million dollars to nonprofit organizations across Oregon.Eight of the awards worth nearly $1.8 million went to arts and culture organizations in Portland (7) and Eugene (1). We have been grouping consideration of support to Portland area large budget arts organizations since 2009 to help them achieve financial stability (read more about this practice here).

Foundation program officers are asked many questions about certified independent financial audits by organizations preparing a grant proposal. In fact, it's a topic that generates a lot of anxiety

About the Photo: FoodHub actively connects growers and consumers of healthy, regionally grown food. In this photo, Marketing Coordinator Megan Foucht staffs the FoodHub booth at the Oregon School Nutrition Association conference. Offering students nutritious, healthy regional food is one of the goals of Ecotrust's social ventures. Photo credit: Stacey Sobell, Ecotrust's Farm to School ManagerSupport from the Meyer Memorial Trust is allowing Ecotrust to scale up FoodHub, an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of regional food. FoodHub links farmers, ranchers and fishermen harvesting the incredible seasonal bounty of the Pacific Northwest with restaurants, hospitals, schools and grocery stores looking to meet the growing consumer demand for locally grown food. FoodHub’s long-term benefits include strengthened rural economies and equitable access to healthy, regionally grown food.Ecotrust describes how FoodHub is used this way:"Thanks to FoodHub, food buyers can walk to their computers, type in the word "raspberry" and quickly access a list of regional raspberry producers. They can sort their search results by specific attributes, check out various raspberry producer profiles, send one a message through FoodHub's message center, and arrange for delivery – either direct or through a mainline distributor. Never before has that raspberry producer been so highly visible to the region's food buyers. And never before have food buyers had it so easy."