July 2012 Awards Listed

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. We have now handed out nearly $568 million since we began operating in 1982.

July's largest award was a combined grant ($150,000) and loan guarantee ($300,000) to the Freshwater Trust to support its "ecosystem services" (e.g., shade-reducing streamside trees) program that quantifies the temperature reduction value generated by riparian restoration as credits that can be traded or purchased by entities facing offeset or mitigation requirements. Credits are determined by Steambank, Freshwater Trust's patented web-based software platform developed with significant investments from Meyer Memorial Trust.

Several grants went for health services, including transitioning from clinical practice to medical home models for patients with complex needs in Medford, Roseburg and Clackamas County.

A number of the grants will help strengthen services in rural Oregon, including extending Oregon's 211 system statewide (dialing 211 anywhere in Oregon will connect callers with information about critical health and human services in their communities), expanding a community center in Burns, helping construct a new Head Start facility in Hermiston, expanding mental health services in Cottage Grove, growing the fundraising ability of a professional orchestra in Newport and riparian restoration projects along Willamette River tributaries.

All July awards included:

1000 Friends of Oregon, Portland
Awarded: $91,000
To expand and enhance development operations to increase contributed income
 
211 Info, Portland
Awarded: $162,035
To complete statewide expansion of 211 service in rural Oregon
 
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District, Corvallis
Awarded: $82,024
For riparian restoration at Half Moon Bend State Natural Area

Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation and Development, Tangent
Awarded: $50,000
For the Luckiamute State Natural Area project

Clackamas County, Community Health Division, Oregon City
Awarded: $58,000
To support the transition of its health clinic practice to a primary care medical home model
 
Clackamas Women's Services, Oregon City
Awarded: $90,000
To expand the shelter's capacity to house survivors of domestic and sexual violence
 
Community Health Center, Medford
Awarded: $294,000
To support establishing a medical home for low-income persons with complex medical needs at its Medford clinic
 
Confluence Philanthropy, New York
Awarded: $7,500
To support Confluence Philanthropy's Oregon Social Enterprise Tour
 
Fishtrap, Enterprise
Awarded: $60,000
To upgrade administrative, communication and financial infrastructure of this organization that promotes clear thinking and good writing about the American West
 
Foundations for a Better Oregon, Portland
Awarded: $20,000
To support the Chalkboard Project's teacher preparation program
 
Friends of Tryon Creek Park, Portland
Awarded: $150,000
To help grow the organization's fundraising and marketing capacity

Greenbelt Land Trust, Corvallis
Awarded: $100,000
For riparian restoration at Harken's Lake and Horsehoe Lake

Harney County Senior and Community Services Center, Burns
Awarded: $150,000
To expand the center's facility to create more room for current and new programming
 
HomePlate Youth Services, Hillsboro
Awarded: $80,000
To build fundraising capacity for programs for homeless youth and young adults in Washington County
 
Long Tom Watershed Council, Eugene
Awarded: $25,637
For landowner outreach between Green Island and Harken's Lake

National College of Natural Medicine, Portland
Awarded: $198,000
To support a new integrative health care research facility
 
Native American Youth and Family Center, Portland
Awarded: $5,000
For Coalition of Communities of Color leadership development project planning
 
Newport Symphony Orchestra, Newport
Awarded: $50,000
For operating support for the only year-round professional symphony orchestra on the Oregon coast
 
NextStep Recycling, Eugene
Awarded: $91,567
To increase NextStep's electronic waste reuse rate and volunteer opportunities through internal reorganization and expansion of its recovery department
 
Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation, Portland
Awarded: $90,000
To double the number of children screened while ensuring the mobile health vision screening program's sustainability
 
Proud Ground, Portland
Awarded: $35,000
To fund due diligence and integration of two community land trusts to achieve increased efficiency and strength

South Lane Mental Health Services, Cottage Grove
Awarded: $100,000
To expand children and family mental health services

The Freshwater Trust, Portland
Awarded: $150,000
PRI: $300,000
For a loan guarantee and grant to increase the pace and scale of stream and river restoration
 
Umatilla-Morrow County Head Start, Hermiston
Awarded: $200,000
To help a construct a Head Start facility in Milton-Freewater
 
Umpqua Community Health Center, Roseburg
Awarded: $58,000
To support the transition of its clinical practice to a primary care medical home model

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