Emergency Grants provide expedited consideration of true emergencies or unique opportunities with imminent deadlines facing nonprofit organizations. If your organization is facing an emergency and needs funding as soon as possible, it may qualify for MMT’s Emergency Fund. Please note that it takes approximately 45 days to process your request for review by the trustees at their monthly meeting.
MMT’s Emergency Fund is intended for sudden, unanticipated and unavoidable challenges that, if not addressed immediately, could threaten an organization’s stability and/or ability to achieve its mission. It is not intended to address failure of an organization to comply with legal requirements or problems that can be attributed to organizational neglect or failure to plan for likely contingencies, such as the breakdown of aging equipment.
>> The grant must further the mission of MMT to deliver significant social benefit to Oregon and Clark County, Washington.
>> Compelling reasons to shorten and simplify the review process must exist.
>> The applicant organization meets MMT’s eligibility guidelines.
Send an email to our Grants Administration Department.
In the email,
1. Describe nature/need for proposed assistance
2. Indicate the total project cost and amount requested from MMT.
3. Explain why a quick response is needed, and why the usual procedure is not possible/appropriate?
4. Describe how the proposed assistance supports MMT’s mission “to invest in people, ideas and efforts that deliver significant social benefit to Oregon and southwest Washington.”
Please do not contact an individual staff member or trustee to request expedited assistance.
Examples of Emergency Grants might include assistance for recovery from fire, flood, and other acts of nature.
Here’s a real world emergency scenario that MMT funded:
A community service organization discovered serious leaks in walls, windows, and the roof of its newly constructed building. It determined that the problems were caused by construction techniques not suitable for this climate. A number of other buildings of this type in the county were encountering similar issues.
While legal action was possible and might result in reimbursement, the organization needed to address the problem before the next rainy season in order to save the structure. Few contractors in the region had experience making the required repairs and corrections, but the nonprofit organization located one reputable contractor that had a single opening for a job of its size in a month and a half. No other contractors would be available for months and months.
MMT awarded an emergency grant so the repairs could be done in time. The organization agreed to repay the grant if and when legal action was successful in reimbursing the cost of the repairs.
Examples of projects that have been determined NOT to qualify for an emergency grant:
-- Legal claim against an organization
-- Problem resulting from an organization’s failure to adequately plan or exercise duty of care
-- Paying back taxes
-- Interim funding while waiting for government reimbursement for services performed or other contractual payments due
-- Construction contingencies that should be covered by a contingency allowance.
