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 Ashland Climate Collaborative is a 501c3 non-profit organization based in Ashland, Oregon.
    2. Describe your organization. We mobilize our community to reduce climate pollution and improve our resilience to climate change impacts, such as increased risk and public health effects of wildfire, smoke events, extreme temperatures, and drought. We have an Ashland Climate Resilience & Equity Initiative to assist low-income, and disadvantaged communities to reduce smoke intrusion by taking advantage of public incentives. Our volunteers also provide free home energy assessments.
  2. Describe your project. Ashland is in a Southwestern interior valley of Oregon, that is in the 99th percentile nationwide for wildfire risk. We are subject to temperature inversions with significant air quality deterioration throughout the year – due to winter heating, spring controlled burns, and summer/fall wildfires and smoke events. Given their frequency, the health impacts from smoke (specifically particulate matter of 2.5 microns and less) pose a significant risks to residents, especially youth, older adults and those with respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. The Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality has a centralized air quality monitor in Ashland and several Purple Air sensors provide data on outdoor air quality, but not on indoor air quality and the various factors affecting it. We propose to partner with the environmental sciences program at Southern Oregon University to distribute monitors to low and moderate-income households. Students would be involved in designing and implementing a controlled study to assess the variables affecting indoor air quality. As part of the study, the Collaborative would provide free home energy and building envelope assessments for participating households and utilize the findings to provide public education and help residents improve indoor air quality. We will report findings in our monthly newsletter (approx. 1000 subscribers), SOU communications, and other local channels, and provide the data to the Jackson County Health Department, the Ashland Climate and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, and the Ashland Chamber of Commerce.
  3. Which PurpleAir model(s) are you interested in and how many would you want for your project? We are requesting 20 PurpleAir Touch - Indoor Air Quality Monitors - Touch - Air Quality Monitor | AQI PM2.5 Indoor Sensor – PurpleAir . Thank you for considering our project!
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