The PurpleAir Donation Program | April 2025

PurpleAir Donation Program Donation Program Applications
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  1. What type of organization best describes you?
    The Becak Environmental Education Center is a 501c3 community based organization in Southwest Yonkers, NY. We focus on educating our local community about environmental challenges and advocacy.
  2. Beczak has an independent Board, and we meet at least monthly in our County-owned building on the shores of the Hudson River. We involve local students, from Junior and Senior High School and local colleges, and work closely with other environmental organizations in our area on environmental projects. We frequently have lectures and other community oriented presentations, and invite other community groups to share our building’s space. We strongly believe in collaboration between community facing organizations.
  3. A number of high school students and their instructor have been assembling from parts several particle sensors for outdoor use. This project has been ongoing for about three years, and we have been evaluating these sensors as compared to two of our PurpleAir mdels.
  4. Describe your organization.
  5. Describe your project. The Beczak Center will supervise Yonkers teachers and students in collecting particle data as part of a real word experiment. Our Disadvantaged Community surrounds a Westchester sewage treatment plant which processes 110 million gallons of County sewage daiy, and was build 47 years ago; its aerial and riverine discharges are not inspected. We have already demonstrated sharp nocturnal spikes of pm 2.5’s, an unreported new finding, and suspect microplastic blasts also, which we intend to evaluate with the aid of university pollution specialists. Our DAC/disadvantaged community has an early death rate higher than 97% of New York State’s DAC rate, which points to microplastc as well as other particle discharges, in a very wealthy County[ reported on PurpleAir as ‘Becak’.
  6. **Which PurpleAir model(s) are you interested in and how many would you want for your project?**We request 4 outdoors sensors with either an internet or SD card recording capability, such as a Flex. We are grateful for your work and assistance.
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