Affordable Housing Still Key
When Meyer Memorial Trust established its Affordable Housing
Initiative (AHI) back in 2007, CEO
Doug Stamm noted:
TWST coming to Columbia Gorge and Eastern Oregon
Topics: Grassroots Grants | TWST
We're happy to announce that we'll be visiting four communities in the Columbia Gorge and eastern Oregon the last week of June! We have Two-Way Street Tour community meetings planned for Hood River, Boardman, La Grande, and Enterprise from Monday, June 24th to Thursday,
June 27th, 2013.I will appear (along with an as yet undecided colleague or two) at these
events to provide advice about seeking grants from Meyer Memorial Trust
and to collect information about the needs of nonprofits and communities
in the area.
To Merge or Not To Merge?
Topics: Responsive Grants | Program Officers
At a February Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington luncheon, I presented a session on how philanthropy can support nonprofit mergers and collaborations. Because MMT has received recent inquiries about mergers, I thought it might be helpful to explain MMT’s philosophy toward this topic. How does MMT approach nonprofit mergers and collaborations?
What Fiscal Year 2014 Holds
Topics: Program Officers
Spring is here and MMT enters a new fiscal year. We want to take this moment to share
how we are approaching our Grant and PRI programs in Fiscal Year 2014
PRIs: What Do Nonprofits Think?
Topics: PRI | Program Officers
Last fiscal year, MMT offered PRI (Program Related Investments) Information Exchanges in Portland and Salem. Hacienda CDC organized Portland’s program. Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency helped with Salem’s event.
To Wax Nostalgic: Gresham TWST
Topics: Responsive Grants | TWST
Usually TWST meetings happen in rural Oregon towns, but this week there were several in “urban” settings, including Gresham. This area was part of the ancestral homeland, food-gathering village
sites of the Chinookan-speaking peoples of which I am descendent: The
Watlala, and the neighboring Multnomah, Molalla and Clackamas peoples.
TWSTing in Eastside Portland
Topics: Responsive Grants | TWST
The Two-Way Street Tours are a useful way for MMT to share information about our grant programs, while also learning about community needs and priorities. They were designed as a way to connect to communities we are less familiar with. But the two meetings I attended last week were on my own streets—Eastside Portland, where I grew up and still live.
TWST meeting coming to Lents
Topics: TWST
Meyer Memorial Trust is happy to announce a community meeting is coming soon to southeast Portland.When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, from 3pm to 5pmWhere: Lents Village, 10325 SE Holgate, Portland
Community Food Work Converging
Topics: Community Food Systems | Program Officers
For the past year, MMT has been exploring
how communities can re-create thriving local/regional food systems,
particularly in rural Oregon, as a way to increase access to food,
improve health and provide economic opportunity.
Community Food Systems, a year in
Topics: Community Food Systems | Program Officers
It's time to report on our grantees' work during the first year of our Community Food Systems Special Focus Program, reflecting on accomplishments so far and how we're working to make future efforts more informed and effective.
