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Wake up 2012! The color of the year is Tangerine Tango. Gotta start moving! We have two important job openings to announce, along with some other news of note...

At the December program meeting, Meyer Memorial Trust made 27 grants for more than $4.1 million to a variety of Oregon tax exempt organizations, from statewide advocacy groups to the one-school district in the small community of Arock in far southeastern Oregon. These grants bring the total awarded since MMT began operating in 1982 to 6,687 awards totaling more than $554 million.

While even the fish in the lake at Portland's Chinese Garden hunker down as light and temperatures diminish, we are awash in November news.

Each day of glorious warm sunshine like the one we are enoying in Portland today causes us to wonder if it will be the last for a good while. But even if it is, we're beginning to see a lot of fall color in our world. I've especially been noticing the maples turning scarlet and red and crimson and vermillion and everything in between lately.

We're back! Did you miss us? We experienced a lot of sunshine since we last met so I guess we really did have a summer after all. Here's hoping we get a little more of that kind of weather before the rains set in for the duration. Today is looking pretty promising in that department, from where I sit.

Didn't I promise glorious summer weather? Now do you believe me? [Believe me, I was worried too! :)]  I love to find unusual views of summer weather, like this one through the begonia leaves and flowers spilling from the basket that hangs on my front porch. Everything looks better from there.

This month Meyer Memorial Trust trustees awarded 11 grants for more than $1.6 million to a wide array of nonprofit organizations across Oregon, from Lincoln City on the Oregon coast to Ontario, located on the Oregon-Idaho border.

This month Meyer Memorial Trust made 80 awards for more than $3.4 million to nonprofit organizations in Oregon and Clark County, Washington. More than three-fourths of the grants (and just over $1 million) were made under MMT's Grassroots Grants program, which provides key support to projects important to smaller nonprofits and/or communities.These awards bring the total amount funded by MMT since it began operating in 1982 to nearly $535 million.All June awards are listed below, grouped by funding program:

I have a feeling many of us have spent a lot more time indoors than we hoped as we slogged our way through this exceedingly long and cold and wet spring. Maybe you've found solace in front of a sun lamp, maybe you've energized yourself with extra cups of coffee, maybe you've cultivated that hobby you've been eyeing for a while.