May 2011 Awards Announced

Meyer Memorial Trust has announced 32 awards for $3,884,000 made since the end of the fiscal year, March 31, 2011. These awards included an $800,000 program-related investment for a new facility for the Clark County Food Bank and 12 grants made under the Willamette River Initiative.

The awards bring the total since MMT began operating in 1982 to 6,455 awards totaling $531,737,489.

May awards included:

Bend Area Habitat for Humanity, Bend
Awarded: $80,000
To acquire and rehabilitate four foreclosed homes in central Oregon for affordable homes for very low income families
 
Benton Habitat for Humanity, Corvallis
Awarded: $40,000
To build two affordable homes in Philomath for very low income families
 
Clark County Food Bank, Vancouver
Awarded: $200,000
PRI: $800,000
To help construct a new facility to house an expanded food bank for Clark County, WA
 
Coos County Historical Society, North Bend
Awarded: $300,000
For a new waterfront Coos Historical & Maritime Center to support school and cultural programming and community revitalization
 
Curry County Habitat for Humanity, Brookings
Awarded: $23,000
To complete pre-development of three lots and to complete construction of an affordable home for a very low income family
 
Eugene Hearing and Speech Center, Eugene
Awarded: $50,000
To provide services to 700 uninsured Oregonians while the organization establishes its new fundraising program
 
Friends of Creston Childrens Dental Clinic, Portland
Awarded: $105,000
To increase services to children from low income families while the clinic expands its volunteer and fundraising programs

Gates Fire District Emergency Services Support, Gates
Awarded: $75,000
To construct a public convening space for this small rural community

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Washington
Awarded: $15,000
To support the organization's 2012 national conference in Seattle
 
Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East, Portland
Awarded: $350,000
To support a development in southeast Portland with 45 affordable homes
 
Josephine County, Grants Pass
Awarded: $40,000
To sustain and expand advocacy services for abused and neglected children
 
Klamath Basin Habitat for Humanity, Klamath Falls
Awarded: $40,000
To rehabilitate a home and build a new home for very low income families in Klamath Falls
 
Mid-Columbia Health Foundation, The Dalles
Awarded: $54,000
To provide breast health outreach, education, and subsidized examinations to vulnerable populations

Mt. Angel-Silverton-Woodburn Habitat for Humanity, Inc., Mt. Angel
Awarded: $30,000
To build a duplex for two very low income families in Silverton

Native American Youth and Family Center, Portland
Awarded: $200,000
To support leadership development in communities of color

Northwest Youth Corps, Eugene
Awarded: $200,000
For building renovations to increase energy efficiency, ADA accessibility and office space in order to serve more youth
 
Quality Child Care of Florence, Florence
Awarded: $100,000
To purchase and install a modular child care and early learning center in this small coastal town
 
SOLV, Hillsboro
Awarded: $100,000
To develop and implement a volunteer education program to support its environmental cleanup work

Willamette River Initiative

Bonneville Environmental Foundation, Portland
Awarded: $199,900
For management of the Willamette Model Watershed Program
 
Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation and Development, Tangent
Awarded: $100,000
To support Luckiamute Watershed Council's participation in the Willamette River Initiative's Model Watershed Program
 
Friends of Buford Park and Mt. Pisgah, Eugene
Awarded: $15,000
For weed maintenance and supplemental planting that enhances the South Meadow Floodplain
 
Long Tom Watershed Council, Eugene
Awarded: $100,000
To support participation in the Willamette River Initiative's Model Watershed Program
 
Marys River Watershed Council, Corvallis
Awarded: $100,000
To support participation in the Willamette River Initiative's Model Watershed Program
 
McKenzie River Trust, Eugene
Awarded: $47,100
To support appraisal and transaction costs to protect three conservation properties on the lower McKenzie River
 
Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council, Lowell
Awarded: $100,000
To support participation in the Willamette River Initiative's Model Watershed Program
 
Oregon Environmental Council, Portland
Awarded: $60,000
To research and promote alternative sources of long-term funding for reducing nonpoint pollution
 
Oregon State University, Corvallis
Awarded: $120,000
To expand a framework to research, monitor and evaluate basin wide impact in the Willamette River floodplain
 
South Santiam Watershed Council, Sweet Home
Awarded: $100,000
To support participation in the Willamette River Initiative's Model Watershed Program
 
Tides Center, San Francisco
Awarded: $30,000
For in-kind support
 
University of Oregon, Eugene
Awarded: $75,000
To expand a framework to research, monitor and evaluate basin wide impact in the Willamette River floodplain

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