News Releases
- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Julie Rogers Announces Plans to Step Down in 2014Julie L. Rogers, President & CEO of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, announced today that she plans to step down in June 2014 after leading the Foundation for nearly 28 years.
Read more - Thursday, May 23, 2013
Meyer Foundation Awards $2.8 Million in Grants
At its May 2 meeting, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation board of directors approved 76 grants totaling more than $2.8 million in the Foundation’s four program areas of Education, Healthy Communities, Economic Security, and a Strong Nonprofit Sector. These grants will support organizations whose work collectively touches the lives of more than 100,000 low-income people in the Washington metropolitan region. Read more - Friday, May 3, 2013
Meyer Foundation Board Elects Joshua Bernstein as ChairAt its May 2 meeting, the board of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation elected Joshua B. Bernstein, CEO of Bernstein Management Corporation, as chair of the Foundation’s board of directors.
Read more - Monday, September 10, 2012
Meyer Releases 2012 Open Letter to the Community
Each year since 2008, Meyer has written an open letter to illuminate our current priorities and future plans. Although the economic climate continues to affect us, our grantees, and the people they serve we remain committed to supporting visionary and effective nonprofit leaders. Read more - Thursday, September 6, 2012
Venture Philanthropy Partners Releases New Report on Children and Youth in the Region
Today, Venture Philanthropy Partners released Capital Kids: Shared Responsibility, Shared Future. The report, which examines the state of children and youth across the Washington metropolitan region, reveals that despite the overall affluence of the region, an enormous opportunity gap exists between the children who have what they need to lead healthy, productive lives and those who don't. Read more - Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Meyer Names Janice A. Thomas as New Vice President for Finance and Operations
Janice A. Thomas, a finance executive with extensive experience in philanthropy and the private sector, has been named vice president for finance and operations at the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, effective January 1, 2013. Read more - Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Meyer Vice President for Finance and Operations to Retire
Kristen Conte, vice president for finance and operations at the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, will retire from her post at the end of 2012 after nearly 14 years with the foundation. Read more - Thursday, June 14, 2012
Lidia Soto-Harmon Elected to Meyer Foundation Board
The board of directors of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation has elected Lidia Soto-Harmon to a three-year term on the Foundation’s board. Read more - Monday, May 7, 2012
Meyer Cash Flow Loan Program Suspended
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation is suspending its longstanding Cash Flow Loan Program, and will no longer be accepting applications for new loans effective immediately. Read more - Thursday, November 17, 2011
Meyer Announces 2011 Exponent Awards
Today, the Meyer Foundation announced the recipients of its 2011 Exponent Awards, which recognize outstanding nonprofit executive directors. The 2011 Exponent Award recipients are Manny Hidalgo, Executive Director of the Latino Economic Development Corporation (LEDC); Lecester Johnson, Executive Director of Academy of Hope; and Amy Nakamoto, Executive Director, DC SCORES. Read more - Thursday, October 6, 2011
Julie Rogers Featured on Urban Institute Panel
On Tuesday, the Urban Institute hosted a panel discussion on the recession, its aftermath, and the continued strain on nonprofit organizations. Panelists for the event—Nonprofit Outlook: Where's the Light at the End of the Tunnel—included Meyer President and CEO Julie Rogers and other nonprofit and White House Leaders. The topics ranged from how nonprofit organizations and the people they serve are faring to how foundations and nonprofits are working to impact public policy. Read more - Friday, August 19, 2011
Carmen James Lane Elected Chair of Youth Transition Funders Group
Carmen James Lane, Meyer senior program officer, has been elected to a one-year term as chair of the steering committee of Youth Transition Funders Group (YTFG), a leading national network of approximately 175 grantmakers whose mission is to help all youth make a successful transition to adulthood by age 25. Read more - Monday, August 8, 2011
Meyer and CompassPoint Release Three Briefs to Supplement Daring to Lead 2011
Today Meyer and CompassPoint released The Board Paradox, completing a series of three briefs based on a national study of more than 3,000 nonprofit executive directors. The briefs report survey results and findings not included in the Daring to Lead 2011 main report, which was released in late June. Read more - Monday, June 27, 2011
Meyer and CompassPoint Release New Daring to Lead Study
Two-thirds of the 3,000 nonprofit executive directors surveyed plan to leave their jobs within five years. Executives express frustration with nonprofit funding models, amplified by the recession, but remain resolved and engaged. Read more - Tuesday, May 10, 2011
William Dunbar Elected to the Meyer Foundation Board of DirectorsThe board of directors of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation elected William Dunbar to a three-year term on the Foundation’s board on April 26, 2011.
Read more - Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Meyer Foundation Announces 2010 Exponent Award Recipients
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation announces the recipients of its 2010 Exponent Award. The award celebrates visionary nonprofit leadership in the region and includes a $100,000 cash award for the recipient's organization. Read more - Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Meyer Celebrates Five Superhero Executive Directors
The superhuman efforts of nonprofit leaders were the focus of the Meyer Foundation's 2009 Exponent Awards celebration, held on Monday, June 7 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Northwest Washington. Read more - Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Meyer Announces Free Workshops for Grantees
The Meyer Foundation announces several convenings exclusively offered to its grantees in 2010. The workshops are in content areas that grantees frequently identify as those in which they would like more technical assistance: fundraising, communications, and coaching. Read more - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Meyer Foundation Annual Report Wins Gold Award
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation has been named a gold award winner for excellence in communications by the 2010 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program. Read more - Monday, March 15, 2010
Calvert Group CEO Barbara Krumsiek Elected Chair of Meyer Foundation Board
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a private foundation in Washington, D.C., announced it has elected Barbara J. Krumsiek as chair of its board. Read more - Monday, October 5, 2009
Foundation Honors Nonprofit Execs For Visionary Leadership
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a private foundation serving the Greater D.C., region, announces the recipients of its 2009 Exponent Award. Read more - Thursday, September 24, 2009
D.C.'s Meyer Foundation and Consumer Health Foundation Form Health Funding Partnership
The Meyer Foundation announces a new collaborative partnership with the Consumer Health Foundation, the leading health funder in the Greater Washington region. Read more - Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Report Shows Nonprofits Could Benefit from Outsourcing
The current economic situation has only intensified the ever-present need for executives of small and mid-sized nonprofits to find effective ways to reduce overhead costs. Read more - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Meyer's Director of Programs Receives Capacity Building Award
Meyer Foundation Director of Programs Rick Moyers has received the Grantmaker in Capacity Building Award from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. Moyers, together with Mary Ann Holohean, founder of the Foundation's Nonprofit Sector Fund, was honored at the Alliance Annual Conference in July. Read more - Wednesday, June 24, 2009
New Report Finds DC Area's Nonprofits Lack Funds to Weather Economic Crisis
Most nonprofits don't have the financial reserves needed to weather the current economic crisis, according to a new report released by the Urban Institute and funded by the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation in Washington, DC. (Read the Washington Post article.) | Read more - Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Meyer Foundation Elects Two New Board Members
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a private foundation in Washington, DC has elected two new members to its board of directors: James W. Dyke Jr., a partner at McGuire Woods LLP and Kerrie B. Wilson, chief executive officer of Reston Interfaith, Inc. Read more - Monday, February 2, 2009
Ginger Lew Joins Meyer Foundation Board
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a private foundation in Washington, DC, announces that it has elected Ginger Lew as a new member of its board. Read more - Monday, October 6, 2008
Five Nonprofit Leaders Receive 2008 Meyer Foundation Exponent Award
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation announces the recipients of its 2008 Exponent Award, which celebrates visionary nonprofit leadership and includes a $100,000 cash award for the recipient's organization. Read more - Monday, March 3, 2008
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 - Thursday, November 8, 2007
Meyer Annual Report Wins Gold MarCom Award
The Meyer Foundation was awarded a Gold Award for its annual report in the 2007 MarCom Awards competition, with honorable mention for writing and design. Read more - Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Meyer Foundation Elects Barbara Lang to Board
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a private foundation in Washington, DC, has elected Barbara Lang to its Board of Directors. Read more - Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Meyer VP honored at 2007 Nonprofit CFO of the Year Awards
Kristen Conte, the Meyer Foundation's Vice President for Finance and Administration, received The Lifetime Achievement Award at the Nonprofit CFO of the Year Awards Luncheon, hosted by Tate & Tryon and West, Lane & Schlager at the Mayflower Hotel on November 1. Read more - Friday, September 28, 2007
Meyer Foundation Honors Five Visionary Nonprofit Leaders
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation announces the recipients of its 2007 Exponent Award. The leaders represent nonprofit organizations working in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia with budgets ranging from just under $1 million to more than $5 million. Meyer selected the five awardees from among 30 nominees. Read more - Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Meyer Foundation Elects Two New Board Members
The Meyer Foundation has appointed Deborah Ratner Salzberg, president of Forest City Washington, Inc., and Jim Sandman, senior partner in Arnold & Porter's toxic tort and product liability practice, to its board of directors. Read more - Saturday, March 31, 2007
Meyer Receives Cafritz Community Partnership Award
The Meyer Foundation received the 2007 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Community Partnership Award with the Center for Nonprofit Advancement and The Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington. Read more - Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Meyer Foundation Receives 2007 Mayor's Arts Awards
The Meyer Foundation received an award for Excellence in Service to the Arts at the 22nd Annual Mayor's Arts Awards held Monday, March 19, 2007, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Read more - Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Meyer Foundation Awarded Gold for Excellence in Communications
The Meyer Foundation has received two gold awards for excellence in communications from the 2007 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards program. Sponsored by the Council on Foundations, the national awards program recognizes effective communications efforts to increase public awareness of foundations and corporate giving programs. Read more - Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Meyer Foundation Board Vice-Chair Barbara Krumsiek Named Chair-Elect of Greater Washington Board of Trade
Washington, D.C. - Meyer Foundation Board Vice Chairperson Barbara J. Krumsiek has been elected chairperson of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Read more - Friday, September 29, 2006
Exponent Award Winners Announced
Washington, DC - The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation has selected its first Exponent Award winners. Read more - Friday, March 24, 2006
Daring to Lead
Washington, DC - Relentless fundraising pressure, weak boards of directors, low salaries, and lack of management support are causing many executive directors of small to mid-sized nonprofit organizations to leave their jobs. Read more
