This infrastructure investment and jobs act (IIJA) project will provide technical assistance (e.g., information, training, expert advice) using P2 practices to address environmental justice concerns…

This infrastructure investment and jobs act (IIJA) project will provide technical assistance (e.g., information, training, expert advice) using P2 practices to address environmental justice concerns and improve human health and the environment in disadvantaged communities. Specifically, the project will provide technical assistance to native-owned/-serving businesses across oregon to promote sustainable purchasing plans incorporating chemical reduction, best practices for improving workplace environmental health, and increasing the use of EPA-preferred products (including safer choice-certified products).activities:the priorities and goals of the P2 grant are providing technical assistance that will include CO-creating a culturally relevant sustainable product and procurement policy curriculum that will be used as training materials for the workshop series, providing industry-specific procurement resources, holding remote trainings (live webinars) for businesses and offering coaching support for implementing sustainable purchasing plans to incorporate pollution source reduction in the use of chemical products and best practices for improving workplace environmental health. Subrecipient:one of the subwards will go to the northwest native chamber (NCC). For this project NCC will: participate in weekly project status meetings; help to recruit up to 10 business owners, procurement officers, or operations managers or staff; participate in curriculum development meetings, virtually; provide resources and support to the committee and reviewers; help to finalize culturally-specific workshop series; support refinement of the workshop series; assist with the development of culturally responsive outreach materials; coordinate with sustainable purchasing leadership council regarding relevant in-person and remote recruitment events; attend in-person and remote recruitment events as needed; conduct outreach to NNC members, prospective members and clients of other NNC technical assistance programs to recruit workshop participants; respond to pre-workshop inquiries; participate in assistance sessions for participants who complete the training, help to document business participants' experiences in the program as part of case study development; review drafts of case studies and provide feedback; host resources for sustainable business practices and the value proposition of implementing them on the startuporegon.US website. The other subward will go to the sustainable purchasing leadership council (splc). For this project splc will: participate in ongoing project status meetings; participate in workshop development meetings; share existing workshop materials; attend virtual meetings; provide follow up materials and information as requested by the committee; support production of draft workshop series; update workshop materials; provide resources and support to the committee and reviewers; develop additional content relevant to grant focus areas; finalize culturally-specific workshop series; support refinement of the workshop series; produce final slide decks, worksheets, and communications for the culturally-specific workshop series; attend in-person and remote recruitment events as needed; prepare to deliver workshop series #1; review participant information and refine content as need; send pre-workshop communication; respond to pre-workshop inquiries; deliver 2 sustainable procurement 101 webinars; partially complete the delivery of workshop series #1; deliver 3 workshops; solicit feedback on the workshop series; review feedback and refine workshop series based on feedback; prepare to deliver workshop series #2; host office hours to support participants; attend in-person and remote recruitment events as needed; deliver workshop series #2; deliver 4 workshops; solicit feedback on the workshop series; support the creation of online resource directory to be hosted on startuporegon.US website; host assistance sessions for partici