Grant Program Health and Environment

To work with a select number of NGO leaders working on toxic chemicals to create a two-year collaborative donor prospecting and recruitment pilot program.

To position each HBBF program’s content and strategies within, or in partnership with, other organizations to focus collective power to lower babies’ exposures to neurotoxic chemicals.

To secure strong implementation of Oregon’s Toxic-Free Kids Act and launch the nation’s most forward-looking state Healthy Purchasing Program.

To protect human health and the environment from the impacts of PFAS chemicals, toxic flame retardants, phthalates, and lead via market and policy change.

To press the EPA to interpret, implement, and enforce the Chemical Safety Act in the most health-protective manner the revised law allows.

To grow, strengthen, and institutionalize key Green Chemistry and Commerce Council programs to advance green chemistry throughout supply chains.

To (1) reduce negative health and environmental impacts of toxic exposures by decreasing or eliminating known harmful chemicals from products; and (2) accelerate the adoption of healthy building protocols leading to a measurable increase in transparency and healthier building product…

To raise market demand for, and availability of, safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals; cultivate corporate and NGO capacities to transform chemicals management; and diversify revenue through business development.

To cement the online business-to-business Marketplace platform as the number one space for chemical innovation and green chemistry.