Mobility Unlimited
Topics: Grassroots Grants
Meyer Memorial Trust granted $15,000 in 2008 to Mobility Unlimited in Medford to purchase mobility equipment not covered by insurance to enable Oregonians with disabilities live independently. Above, Georgana Moran uses a power seat height adjuster that helps raise the level of the wheelchair to reach items from upper shelves in her kitchen. Photo Credit: Mobility Unlimited
Mobility Unlimited
Topics: Grassroots Grants
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
Lord Leebrick Theatre Company
Topics: Grassroots Grants
A $7,000 grant from Meyer Memorial Trust enabled Lord Leebrick Theatre Company to offer online ticketing, leading to greater customer satisfaction and patron support. Above, Sarah Adler and Rebecca Nachison appear in a scene from the company's production of Rob Urbinati's West Moon Street. Photo credit: Gretchen Drew
KPOV Bend Community Radio
Topics: Grassroots Grants
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
HumaniNet
Topics: Grassroots Grants
HumaniNet used a Meyer Memorial Trust Grassroots Grant to develop mapping tools that can be employed in humanitarian relief. In the photo above, humanitarian relief managers are participating in a humanitarian relief exercise in a northern Thailand village in November 2008, using a portable satellite terminal to send information on the simulated disaster to a volunteer team in Portland, who posted it to a Google Map. Relief managers can use these tools to review critical real-time information to coordinate and deploy responses anywhere in the world. Photo credit: Gregg Swanson
Homowo African Arts and Cultures
Topics: Grassroots Grants
Homowo African Arts & Cultures used a $9,800 from Meyer Memorial Trust in 2007 to keep costs affordable for children attending its African arts camp in Washington County. Above, students are ready to perform an Anansi story they learned, along with drumming, dancing and singing. Prior to this grant, MMT awarded $77,000 to Homowo to increase its marketing and fundraising capacity. Photo credit: Susan Addy, Homowo
Healthy Beginnings
Topics: Grassroots Grants
Very young children learn as many as 11 new words a day but if kids can’t hear well, they can’t learn to say them. Deschutes County Healthy Beginnings in Bend used four grants from Meyer
Memorial Trust to expand and improve services to children from birth to
age 5 who
otherwise would not have checkups or access to health care. Regular health screening identifies ear and hearing problems that, if corrected early, do not
interfere with a child's development. Photo credit: Nicole Werner
Faith Cafe
Topics: Grassroots Grants
Faith Cafe's 'procurement specialist' displays food donated by local grocers to Faith Cafe, which hosts nutritious hot meals for working poor and homeless families every Sunday and gives food to guests to take home to supplement the rest of their meals for the week. A $15,000 grant from Meyer Memorial Trust enabled the organization to hire its first paid staff. Requests for food aid grew more rapidly in Washington County than any other county in Oregon during 2009. Photo credit: Barb Upson
Cobb School
Topics: Grassroots Grants
Middle school students at Cobb School show their excitement unpacking new computers for this school in Roseburg that integrates the arts into its curriculum in an experience-based education. A $12,800 grant from Meyer Memorial Trust helped purchase this new equipment. Each student got to set up a computer station from the box through completion. Photo credit: Teresa Jackson, Cobb School
Camas Roots Garden
Topics: Grassroots Grants
A third grade class at JD Zellerbach Elementary School in Camas, WA poses in front of the entry gate to the Camas Roots Garden. K-12 students in the Camas School District and youth in the Clark County Juvenile Justice program worked together to fence the garden, using a $15,000 grant from Meyer Memorial Trust to the school's PTA. Prior to fencing, the crops were routinely eaten by the resident deer population. The following season, students grew more than 1,000 pounds of organic produce they donated to the local food bank and sold at the Camas Farmer's Market, in a service learning project. Photo credit: Elisa Wells, Camas Roots Garden
