91 grants & PRIs for $14.3 million
Since inception in 1982:5,674 grants & PRIs for $463.4 million
These are quiet days in the office. Quite a few staff members are
taking time off from work to spend the holidays with family and
friends.
Holiday season office closures at MMT are:
Closed after noon on Thursday, December 23rd, all day Friday, Dec. 24th.
Closed after noon on Thursday, Dec. 30th, and all day Friday, Dec. 31st.
Otherwise, the office is open regular hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
during December.
MMT reopens on its regular schedule Monday, January 3rd.
We wish you and yours the best this holiday season and look forward to
working with many fine nonprofit organizations during the new year.
Today we launch our new website. It’s been a long time coming. We’re proud that we were the first foundation in Oregon to have a website, beginning back in 1996, but we are the first to admit that we haven’t been able to give it the attention it deserves of late. That changes now. Beginning today and forevermore, we will use our website to continually inform you about our activities, give you a view into the inner workings of our foundation, invite your active participation in what we do, and help you share the results of your good works and abundant wisdom.
We plan to use our website as our primary communication tool, taking advantage of features that allow frequent updating of content and invite visitors to give us feedback, ask questions, exchange views and information, and contribute content. Features will continue to be added monthly. We plan to hold ourselves to a very high standard of transparency, accessibility, and accountability.
Please stay tuned, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!!
We are so excited to announce that the administrative assistant position at the Meyer Memorial Trust is now held by four students from De La Salle North Catholic High School, a school in north Portland whose students help pay their own tuition through internships at area employers. Delicia, Rashida, Sam and Tanika share the job, with each student working five days per month. Students put in extra classroom hours the days they’re not working so they don’t lose instruction time.
Two-thirds of students at De La Salle North Catholic High School receive scholarship assistance. The school has grown from 70 students in 2001 to 230 in Fall 2004 and from 17 to 55 employer sponsors. (The Trust supported the school with a $400,000 grant in 2001.)
De La Salle North Catholic was the second high school in the United States to adopt this model of education, first developed at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago. There are now 11 schools in the Cristo Rey Network with the shared goal of providing “quality, Catholic, college preparatory education to young people from low-income families who otherwise could not afford such an opportunity.” Member schools have their own identity and offer a curriculum that is tailored to the students' needs and includes the Corporate Internship Program developed in 1996. (The school model was featured on Sixty Minutes in October 2004.)
