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May 2013 Awards Announced

Meyer Memorial Trust awarded nearly $4 million this month to support organizations and projects that deliver human services, youth programs, arts and culture, housing, education, land conservation, community food systems and Willamette River restoration.Funds will support projects across the state, from Clatskanie and Astoria in the north to Klamath Falls and Ashland in the south, from Seaside on the coast to Baker City in far eastern Oregon. Read More

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May 2013 Awards Announced

Posted May 22 2013 - 10:18am by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Responsive Grants

April 2013 Grants Announced

Posted Apr 25 2013 - 9:52am by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Willamette River Initiative | Willamette River Initiative

Meyer Memorial Trust awarded nine grants for $942,000 in April. All but two of the awards went to organizations working on MMT's Willamette River Initiative to "achieve meaningful, measurable improvements in the health of the Willamette River and selected tributaries by 2018 and to create a national model for effective philanthropic involvement in the restoration of large, complex ecological systems."

What Color Is Spring?

Posted Apr 24 2013 - 5:00pm by Marie Deatherage

Have you been noticing the emergence of color all around us? Skies are a fresh blue. Leaves are spring green. Flowers are pink and red and orange and yellow and purple and every shade in between. What color would you say spring is? Is it the Pantone color of the year: emerald?

Hoping Eternally for Spring

Posted Mar 27 2013 - 3:06pm by Marie Deatherage

Last week I was in a room of Oregonians listing what they see as signs of spring, and the answers ranged widely: horses losing their wooly undercoat, crocuses blooming, the sound of children's voices playing together outside, plum and cherry tree blossoms, firing up the BBQ, a sense of optimism in the air, the March Madness tournament...

March 2013 Grants Announced

Posted Mar 27 2013 - 2:46pm by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Communities of Color

At Meyer Memorial Trust's March program meeting, our trustees awarded 20 grants for more than $3.16 million. These grants bring the total MMT has awarded to nearly $587.5 million since the foundation began operating in 1982.

An explosive beginning (and ending)

Posted Feb 20 2013 - 5:45pm by Marie Deatherage

I truly hope the first two months of 2013 have been less eventful and explosive for you than they have for me. Maybe my life has had a little too much magnesium lately. That will make sense later.

February 2013 Grants Announced

Posted Feb 20 2013 - 5:43pm by Marie Deatherage

Today Meyer Memorial Trust announced 62 new grant awards for nearly $4 million. The largest recent award went to one of MMT's strategic initiatives in $750,000 to fund the Chalkboard Project's TeachOregon project that aims to improve teacher quality and effectiveness. More than $1 million was awarded to 44 nonprofit organizations under MMT's Grassroots Grants program, which provides funds up to $40,000.

News from hibernation

Posted Jan 16 2013 - 11:14am by Marie Deatherage

Whenever I feel like complaining about our grey day weather, I think about the people of Yakustk, a city of some 270,000 in eastern Russia, where it is -51 degrees right now.

Are we ready for 2013?

Posted Jan 10 2013 - 3:22pm by Marie Deatherage

Topics: 2013 predictions | data | social economy | technology

There are so many predictions for nonprofits and social entrepreneurs and the social economy and related things for 2013, I'm starting to feel overwhelmed. But these predictions are given in a kind of we-need-to-know-all-these-things-or-else-we're-doomed vein

December 2012 Grants Announced

Posted Dec 19 2012 - 10:15am by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Responsive Grants

When Meyer Memorial Trust's trustees met this week, they awarded 17 grants totaling $2.85 million. These grants bring the total awarded since MMT began operating in 1982 to 7,145 awards totaling $580.4 million.One million dollars of the December awards were for emergency assistance to poor and working class families as they continue to struggle to meet the needs of their families in this economy, evidenced by these sobering statistics:

Heartbreak and resilience

Posted Dec 18 2012 - 4:17pm by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Responsive Grants

My Michaelea tree is blooming for the THIRD time this year, the bulbs I planted two weeks ago are already coming up and leaf buds on one of my Stewartias are starting to unfurl. None of this is supposed to be happening right now. Which is also true of the heartbreaking week that just was.

Even more news than rain

Posted Nov 28 2012 - 5:16pm by Marie Deatherage

The pace of work has not been winding down at the Meyer Memorial Trust's office, I must say. Which is why we have even more news than rain this time!

November 2012 Awards Announced

Posted Nov 28 2012 - 11:08am by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Responsive Grants

At the November program meeting, Meyer Memorial Trust awarded more than $5.5 million in grants and program-related investments (PRI) to nonprofit organizations in Oregon. The largest award – $2 million in a combination $1.5 million PRI and $500,000 grant – went to Lifeworks NW...

Remembering and Resilience

Posted Oct 31 2012 - 3:02pm by Marie Deatherage

How many of you lived in Oregon in 1962? Those of us who were certainly noted the recent 50th anniversary of the Columbus Day storm that killed at least 46 people. I was 12 years old, living on the South Umpqua River, and my memories are as strong today as they were on October 13th.

October 2012 Grants Announced

Posted Oct 31 2012 - 1:58pm by Marie Deatherage

Topics: emergency grants | grassroots grants | responsive grants

In October, Meyer Memorial Trust awarded 47 grants totaling nearly $2 million to nonprofit organizations across Oregon, from St. Helens to Enterprise in northern Oregon and Port Orford to Burns in the southern half of the state.

Willamette River Initiative Wins!

Posted Oct 9 2012 - 9:06am by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Theiss International Riverprize | Willamette River Initiative

We just got word from far away Australia that Willamette River Initiative has won the prestigious Theiss International Riverprize. Congratulations to all our partners! We'll have more details as we get more news from the other side of the world!

Glorious Days, Magical Nights

Posted Oct 2 2012 - 4:34pm by Marie Deatherage

We have a lot to cover this time, from a campaign to nominate the best of Oregon to TWST tour reports from Albany and Corvallis to financial metrics for loans to poverty rates and impact investing.

News through a red umbrella

Posted Sep 18 2012 - 4:58pm by Marie Deatherage

The calendar says we are entering autumn this week but the past few days might be enough to have us believe in endless summer. We are not so accustomed to using umbellas for anything but rain around these parts

September 2012 Grants Top $2 million

Posted Sep 18 2012 - 3:29pm by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Responsive Grants

Meyer Memorial Trust's board of trustees made 16 grants totaling $2,047,675 to nonprofit organizations for projects in Oregon at the September board meeting. These awards bring the total amount awarded since MMT began operating in 1982 to nearly $570 million.September grants included:

Short on news, long on leaves

Posted Aug 23 2012 - 3:24pm by Marie Deatherage

It's that time of the summer when folks seem to take vacations and leaves and naps are mandatory and the pace slows down before back to school wakes us up again. So we're a bit short on news. But the news we have is very very BIG!

Midsummer Glory

Posted Jul 26 2012 - 2:59pm by Marie Deatherage

I trust your garden is achieving midsummer glory, given that ours is just about the only part of the country not sweltering or parching or apocalyptic storming these days. This is why we endure and even grow to love the rain, people!

July 2012 Awards Listed

Posted Jul 26 2012 - 10:44am by Marie Deatherage

Topics: Responsive Grants

In July Meyer Memorial Trust made 25 grants for more than $2 million and a loan guarantee of $300,000 for a variety of programs and services across Oregon. July's largest award was a combined grant

We're Going Live!

Posted Jul 17 2012 - 11:19am by Marie Deatherage

We've been working feverishly behind the scenes to come up with a way to livestream our Communicating for Good gathering on Thursday, July 19, so folks in other parts of Oregon can virtually attend.The good news: We have come up with a solution! The first speaker will begin at 9 am, so you should connect before then.

A breeze, a list, a post and two invitations

Posted Jun 22 2012 - 9:00am by Marie Deatherage

Did you catch the amazing sunset the first night of summer 2012. Was it a glorious evening or what? The lingering light, a breeze and warm temperatures made for a "it doesn't get any better than this" vibe. Neighbors were out, passersby were mellow

June 2012 Grants Announced

Posted Jun 21 2012 - 3:08pm by Mike Phillips

Topics: Grant Announcements | Responsive Grants | Grassroots Grants

Meyer Memorial Trust awarded 65 grants for more than $2.4 million to tax exempt organizations in Oregon and Clark County, Washington, at our June program meeting. Forty-five grants (worth approximately $800,000) were made under MMT's Grassroots Grants program