This agreement provides funding under the inflation reduction act (IRA) to center for intercultural organizing (CIO) doing business as (DBA) unite oregon

The recipient will work with partners across indigenous and other community-led organizations, local government, and rural electric CO-OPS will collaborate to 1) strengthen the capacity of community leaders in central oregon and the rogue valley to organize around climate justice, and take action on policies and other systemic inequities affecting their communities; 2) create two community resilience hubs so communities with limited english proficiency, immigrants, rural oregonians, and people of color have the same access to disaster response assistance from government, the private sector, and their neighbors; and 3) reduce home energy costs by increasing rural and tribal community access to residential home energy efficiency incentives from federal, state, and utility sources. The work will primarily serve and focus on central oregon and rogue valley communities with high climate disaster risk, pre-existing pressures on economic and environmental health, and where community leaders are stepping forward to take action.activities:the activities fall under three goals for the project: (1) strengthen capacity of community leaders, (2) create the policies, procedures, and resources for two community resilience hubs, and (3) increase rural and tribal community access to residential home energy efficiency incentives. To achieve this, the recipient will conduct training events for at least 50-90 community leaders, host community engagement events listening sessions in the communities to understand their obstacles to accessing these incentives, provide translation and interpretation services when needed to improve accessibility to government incentives, conduct community outreach for at least 200 households regarding energy efficiency incentives, and develop and create two community resilience hubs with resources and support related to public health, weather protection, emergency preparedness, and community building. Subrecipient:the subawardee coalition of communities of color (CCC) will engage its research justice team to support ongoing collection and analysis of data for the project. This includes working with unite to organize the data IT collects to support its community initiatives, and creating a standard process that unite oregon can use to collect and analyze data moving forward. The subawardee warm springs community action team (wscat) will work with unite to engage community leaders informing a central oregon chapter of unite oregon and CO-create culturally relevant and responsive resources and materials to tribal members as part of the community resilience hub for emergency management programs including health, energy efficiency, and job training opportunities in the green sector. The subawardee southern oregon climate action now (socan) will support climate education workshops for rogue valley community members, and will work with unite to connect rogue valley community members to energy incentives and local energy incentive providers. Outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include: the central oregon chapter formed with 50-60 community leaders, two climate resilience hubs active (e.g., rogue valley and central oregon) and ready to respond to disasters integration with medicaid and emergency management systems, 100 community households apply for government incentives, a two-part training on data analysis for 20-30 partner and community leaders, 50-60 community leaders reached and trained, rogue chapter grown with 300-330 community contacts, community outreach to at least 200 households with 50% of households reached, support for people disaggregated by rural, black, indigenous, people of color (bipoc), and income for energy efficiency incentives, 90% of households reached (160), a sustainability plan for continuing culturally specific outreach SER