March 2012 Grants Announced

At the March program meeting, Meyer Memorial Trust awarded 23 grants for nearly $2.2 milion to nonprofit organizations working across Oregon. Because MMT's fiscal year ends March 31, we can now report that in our 2011-12 fiscal year, we made 349 awards for more than $31 million.

These awards bring the total since MMT began operating in 1982 to 6,776 awards totaling $559 million. After giving away nearly $660 million, and contributing nearly $50 million to the local economy through our operating budget during that period, we still have approximately $655 million left! And we are working to continue to grow our corpus through our investments so we can give away that much again before too many years go by.

March grants included:

Bienestar, Hillsboro
Awarded: $67,000
To strengthen the organization, improve its financial sustainability and support growth of its affordable housing development activities
 
Centro Latino Americano, Eugene
Awarded: $75,000
To support crisis intervention services for low-income Latinos and improve the organization's overall financial sustainability
 
Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum, Ontario
Awarded: $1,000
To support the Eastern Oregon Nonprofit  Conference in September 2012
 
Gilliam County Library, Condon
Awarded: $75,000
To help renovate the new Gilliam County Public Library
 
Grantmakers of Oregon and SW Washington, Portland
Awarded: $30,000
For in-kind support
 
Hacienda Community Development Corporation, Portland
Awarded: $125,000
For operating support for this organization that develops affordable housing and supports economic advancement of Latino families and others in Oregon
 
Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Portland
Awarded: $105,000
To strengthen the organization's Latino Emerging Small Business Program
 
Institute for Applied Ecology, Corvallis
Awarded: $51,880
To help establish a development program to diversify funding sources
 
Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland
Awarded: $100,000
To strengthen and sustain this organization's music, performance and education programs
 
Oregon Mentoring Initiative, Portland
Awarded: $120,000
To implement a quality-based assessment process for mentoring programs in order to improve outcomes for youth
 
Oregon Opportunity Network, Portland
Awarded: $180,000
To strengthen affordable housing organizations to better meet the growing need for quality, affordable housing across Oregon
 
Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon, Portland
Awarded: $150,000
To strengthen statewide partnerships among groups working to address root causes of hunger and poverty
 
Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers, Roseburg
Awarded: $120,000
For board and staff development to strengthen the organization and support its science-based watershed restoration projects
 
ROSE Community Development Corporation, Portland
Awarded: $125,000
To support neighborhood based economic development for outer Southeast Portland
 
Rural Development Initiative, Eugene
Awarded: $100,000
To help the organization market its services that strengthen rural Oregon communities
 
Tides Center, San Francisco
Awarded: $30,000
For in-kind support for the Willamette River Initiative
 
Voz Workers' Rights Education Project, Portland
Awarded: $60,000
For operating support and fundraising development for this organization that helps day laborers