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Deepening a connection to Oregon |
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Meyer Memorial Trust's new director of program strategy Kaberi Banerjee Murthy writes about her first year at Meyer, what it means to deepen her connection with Oregon and Meyer’s team and evaluate the foundation's grantmaking strategy to center grantees in the work.
Read Kaberi's new blog. |
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A new resource page on Meyer's website |
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In August, the Housing Opportunities portfolio hosted the Equity Housing Summit 2019: Strategies to Advance the Field, a daylong event to bring together Meyer grantees from across Oregon that are housing-focused or homeless service providers to share strengths, insights and lessons to advance diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the field.
Housing Opportunities portfolio team members Lauren Waudé and Elisa Harrigan co-lead the event and curation of a new landing page on mmt.org that offers resources from the summit, including keynote presentations and speeches, breakout session materials and the land acknowledgement that started the day. They also wrote a blog, offering more insights and resources from the summit, here. |
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Introducing our newest team member |
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Please welcome Mary Rose Navarro to our Healthy Environment portfolio!
As part of the portfolio team, Mary Rose will help hone our strategy for building a movement for a resilient and natural healthy environment, while supporting the well-being of Oregon’s diverse cultures and communities. Learn more about Mary Rose in her staff bio or this interview. |
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Myth: Disparities in education are not an issue of race but rather an issue of poverty |
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"Historically, when issues of racial equity are talked about people will often say that the problem isn’t racism but rather that people of color are more likely to be poor and that any discrepancies that exist (either in terms of opportunities or outcomes) are more the result of poverty than race."
Our Equitable Education portfolio recently published a new piece of work that debunks myths about issues of race and poverty in regards to education. Read the findings, here. |
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Meyer supports housing advocacy |
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Over the past few years, our housing work has become increasingly engaged in supporting advocacy, because we believe it is the path to real impact and finding solutions to the housing issues Oregonians face.
Housing Opportunities portfolio program officer Michael Parkhurst writes about our housing advocacy efforts and 11 new grants, totaling $1 million for work that will take place over the next two years, here. |
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| Photo caption: Community Alliance of Tenants executive director Katrina Holland speaks at a rally for tenants’ rights. |
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