May 2012 Grants Announced

Meyer Memorial Trust awarded 19 grants for more than $2.8 million to tax exempt organizations in Oregon and Clark County, Washington, at our May program meeting. The meeting was held in Pendleton so trustees and staff could meet with community members and visit prior grantees to see projects and program MMT has funded.

These grants bring the total amount awarded since Meyer Memorial Trust began operating in 1982 to more than $562.5 million.

May 2012 grants included:

Benton Soil and Water Conservation District, Corvallis
Awarded: $28,600
To identify gaps in existing geomorphological research of the Willamette River and develop a plan to address them
 
Blanchet House of Hospitality, Portland
Awarded: $300,000
To construct a new, larger facility to provide hot meals, temporary shelter and transitional housing to homeless and low income residents of central downtown Portland
 
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington, Vancouver
Awarded: $100,000
To help youth from low income families be ready for college and earn post-secondary degrees or training
 
CASA of Lane County, Springfield
Awarded: $175,000
To transition to a new service model that relies on trained peer coordinators to support volunteers who work with foster children
 
Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria
Awarded: $250,000
To help restore the Astoria Railroad Depot to provide space for public and maritime educational activities
 
Grants Managers Network, Washington
Awarded: $2,500
For annual membership
 
Greenbelt Land Trust, Corvallis
Awarded: $141,655
To support this organization's Willamette River Program
 
Guidestar USA, Williamsburg
Awarded: $500
For annual support
 
Lane Community College, Eugene
Awarded: $150,000
For equipment for Lane Community College's new downtown campus
 
McKenzie River Trust, Eugene
Awarded: $133,000
To support this organization's Willamette River Program
 
Nature Conservancy, Portland
Awarded: $90,200
To survey and plan restoration of the organization's Willamette Confluence property near Eugene
 
Options for Southern Oregon, Grants Pass
Awarded: $200,000
To help purchase a new facility to separate children and adult mental health services and incorporate primary care services for adults
 
Partnership for Safety and Justice, Portland
Awarded: $100,000
For general operating support to advance evidence-based policies that limit incarceration, reduce recidivism, prevent crime and decrease corrections costs
 
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Eugene
Awarded: $300,000
To help construct a regional health and education center in Lane County
 
Project DOVE, Ontario
Awarded: $103,000
For security-related expenses for a new domestic violence shelter
 
Salvation Army, Cascade Division, Happy Valley
Awarded: $200,000
To expand Rockwood Center, which provides after school programs for youth and emergency services to families in outer east Portland
 
Siskiyou Community Health Center, Grants Pass
Awarded: $200,000
To expand the electronic health records/practice management system in the new Grants Pass clinic
 
St. Joseph Shelter, Mt. Angel
Awarded: $198,000
To rehabilitate a facility that offers transitional housing to migrant farmworker families
 
University of Oregon, Eugene
Awarded: $141,000
To expand an information framework for research, monitoring and evaluation in the Willamette River floodplain