The Meyer Memorial Trust in Portland, Oregon, has announced grants totaling more than $3.2 million to seventeen nonprofit organizations in the areas of arts and culture, education, the environment, housing, and human services.

During August, eleven grants and a program-related investment totaling $1.8 million were awarded to Portland-area organizations through the trust's human services focus area. Recipients include Neighborhood Partnerships, which was awarded $138,000 in support of its efforts to identify and develop new leaders focused on local housing policy; the Latino Network, which will receive $252,00 over three-years in support of its capacity-building efforts; and the Momentum Alliance, which was awarded $100,000 in support of its efforts to train, mentor, and inspire youth from underrepresented communities to become social justice leaders. The trust also awarded a $250,000 grant and a $500,000 PRI to Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare in support of its Garlington Center, an innovative integrated care clinic and affordable housing redevelopment project in northeast Portland.

In addition, through its arts and culture program, the trust awarded $120,000 to Capella Romana, a touring chamber choir specializing in ancient and contemporary music from Byzantium and Western Europe, and a grant of $200,000 to Wisdom of the Elders, a Multnomah-based organization that records, preserves, and shares Native oral histories, cultural arts, language concepts, and traditional ecological knowledge.

The trust also awarded a $60,000 grant to State Voices in Washington, D.C., to help build the civic engagement advocacy of culturally specific organizations and strengthen the voices of underrepresented and underserved communities in the state.

For a complete list of grant recipients, visit the MMT website.