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Funding Opportunties

Funding OpportuntiesThese are other funding possibilities beyond grant opportunities at the Meyer Foundation. Click here for more information.

Learning Opportunties

Learning OpportuntiesLearning Opportunities are workshops and other professional development opportunities for nonprofit staffs and board members. Learn more.

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Program Areas

The Meyer Foundation funds broadly in areas ranging from arts to homelessness and hunger.
For more information on our funding priorities, click here.

Highlights

Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out

Young Leaders Concerned With Pay, Work-Life Balance, Report Says
Career seen as personally meaningful and satisfying

A skilled, committed, and diverse pool of next generation leaders would like to be nonprofit executive directors in the future, according to a new national survey of nearly 6,000 next generation leaders. read more  |  view report

• US News and World Report mentions Ready to Lead.   read more
• The Washington Post: Crunch Predicted in Nonprofit Sector   read more
• Ready to Lead featured in Baltimore Examiner.   read more
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Potential Charity Leaders See Top Job
   as Unappealing, New Survey Reveals   read more

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Arena Stage's Temporary Relocation Benefits Local Economy

Local businesses in Crystal City are benefitting from the temporary relocation of Arena Stage to the area.  A Washington Post article highlight's the theatre's economic impacts.   read more
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Examiner Quotes DC Appleseed Executive Director in Article on Pullout of CareFirst in Healthy DC Initiative

Walter Smith, executive director of DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice is quoted in The Examiner in a story on the pullout of CareFirst in the evolving Healthy DC Initiative.  The initiative would provide low cost insurance to approximately 25,000 uninsured DC residents.   read more
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Meyer Grantees Honored with Helen Hayes Awards

The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, and Arena Stage were honored for their work at the 24th Annual Helen Hayes Awards.  read more
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IRS Announces New Filing Requirement and Plans for Revised Tax Form in 2009

Beginning in 2008, small organizations have a new filing requirement. Tax-exempt organizations that normally have annual gross receipts of $25,000 or less and do not have to file Form 990 or 990-EZ now must file a new electronic form—Form 990-N, more commonly known as the e-Postcard. read more