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Before installing a new roof, Community Energy Project's building's infrastructure had partially collapsed from the deep pools of rainwater that collected during every storm (as shown in photo at left). Without the use of the building, CEP would be hard pressed to provide education and referrals for home safety and energy improvements to more than 2,000 families each year. With the new roof, CEP is able to focus on its mission to help families maintain healthier and more livable homes, control utility costs and conserve natural resources. Photo credit: Sherrie Smith, CEP CEP documented the roof's transformation in a slide show.

Ballet Fantastique used a $24,900 Grassroots Grant from Meyer Memorial Trust to create City Center for Dance, a highly visible downtown Euguene facility used for training, rehearsal and outreach. The dance company reports that the center is busy 10-12 hours each day, providing a rehearsal space large enough to prepare for performances as it works to become the newest resident company of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, along with desperately-needed space to open Ballet Fantastique academy classes up to children on wait lists. It also provides an ADA-accessible space where the community is invited to experience dance through free and low-cost educational events.Above, dancer Leanne Mizzoni rehearses for Ballet Fantastique's Bossa Brasil at a free public open rehearsal in the new City Center for Dance in January 2011. Ballet Fantastique keeps the CCD busy with 10-12 hrs/day of classes, rehearsals, and events. Photo credit: Reathel Geary/5d-Creative, 2011)

Mobility Unlimited serves people with disabilities across Oregon from the organization's office in Medford. A $15,000 grant from Meyer Memorial Trust helped purchase equipment like van modifications and wheelchair lifts. This equipment is covered by insurance but it makes it possible for people like Anita Cox in Bend to be mobile and self-sufficient.  Photo credit: Mobility Unlimited

A Meyer Memorial Trust grant of $14,770 to the Women's Civic Improvement League in Bend made it possible to add Internet streaming to the broadcast of KPOV Bend Community Radio station. Because KPOV is restricted to fewer than 10 watts of power by the FCC, the station could not reach all its local audience. By streaming  on the Internet and archiving programming for convenient listener access, KPOV has greatly expanded its audience, including teens like the ones shown above producing their own program. Photo credit: KPOV archives