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What type of organization best describes you?
We are a 501c3 non-profit health organization, Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate. -
Describe your organization.
We work to educate, advocate and lead on air pollution and climate change issues in Montana. We teach in k-12 classes, universities, graduate schools, churches, communities, and at medical meetings when invited. We work closely with the press to increase news coverage. We are involved in a statewide coalition of organizations that work on air pollution and climate change. We monitor legislation and encourage members to provide testimony -
Describe your project.
Raise the Flag on Air Quality
We have enrolled 61 sites in Montana to fly air quality flags, and for many of those, we also provided a purple air monitor that we purchased with previous grants. School science teachers and their students use the data and analyze them to meet high school science standards. We have had many newspaper write-ups on the facilities when they come on board. We also have some fire departments, clinics, and libraries on board.
We continue to recruit new facilities to fly the AQ flags in Montana. Because we emphasize rural and disadvantaged communities, they are usually some distance from an official air monitor (we only have about 35 in our entire, huge state). We can afford to provide flags and poles and written materials but not the PA monitors for new sites. Receiving some PA monitors would be a tremendous asset to our small organization to continue to educate communities about air pollution.
- Which PurpleAir model(s) are you interested in and how many would you want for your project?
20 Purple Air Flex air monitors.