MMT's Largest Ever Award... made in a time of sorrow

Sometimes world events conspire to induce a heavy heart when our news is ready to announce. If there ever was such a time, it is now. Emotions from the anguish and sorrow in Japan and the Middle East and North Africa are hard to set aside, but that is the context in which we make our otherwise celebratory award announcement this month.

At the March meeting, MMT's trustees made 20 grants and one program-related investment (PRI) totaling more than $5.7 million and included the largest award MMT has made since it began operating in 1982.

The largest award is a combination grant/PRI of $4.5 million to ShoreBank Enterprise Group Pacific to establish a loan fund for land trusts to acquire land and secure conservation easements. We will have additional information about this significant decision in coming weeks.

Other grants made at the March meeting included:

Bradley Angle House, Portland
Awarded: $23,310
To help four nonprofit organizations test a new system for delivering collaborative, consolidated domestic violence crisis line services
 
CASA for Children, Portland
Awarded: $15,000
For technical assistance during a leadership transition
 
Center for Diversity and the Environment, Portland
Awarded: $56,000
For staff support for this organization's work to diversify the environmental movement
 
Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers, Portland
Awarded: $150,000
To support acquisition and development of two homes for an alcohol and drug treatment program for low-income single women wanting to be reunited with children placed in foster care
 
Hood River County, Hood River
Awarded: $61,000
To provide the new Hood River County Library District with staff for re-opening the local library
 
Loaves and Fishes Centers, Portland
Awarded: $150,000
To support the increased need for congregate meal services
 
McKenzie River Trust, Eugene
Awarded: $16,000
To support appraisal and transaction costs for conservation acquisitions at Blue Ruin Island in the Willamette River
 
Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council, Lowell
Awarded: $127,000
For design and engineering costs for a project to increase channel complexity in Little Fall Creek, a tributary of the Middle Fork Willamette River
 
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Vancouver
Awarded: $100,000
For a funding partnership to support Oregon's Native artists and organizations and to engage communities in Native arts and cultures
 
National Indian Child Welfare Association, Portland
Awarded: $125,000
To implement a leadership transition plan
 
Neighborhood Partnerships, Portland
Awarded: $100,000
To support strategic issue communications work with nonprofit and government leaders across Oregon
 
Oregon Primary Care Association, Portland
Awarded: $2,500
To research community health centers' implementation of electronic medical records and forecast centers' needs for capital construction projects
 
Project Quest, Portland
Awarded: $75,000
To build information technology capacity to prepare for implementing electronic medical records
 
Ride Connection, Portland
Awarded: $46,490
To expand a transportation program in western Washington County that provides low-income residents access to jobs and employment related resources
 
South Benton Community Enhancement Association, Monroe
Awarded: $100,000
To help construct a new public library in Monroe
 
Transition Projects, Portland
Awarded: $94,000
To furnish a new environmentally sustainable service access center and shelter for people experiencing homelessness

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