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About the BEST Business Center
The Best Business Center helps businesses identify opportunities to green their operations. It is a partnership of city and regional government programs and energy utilities, including the City of Portland Office of Sustainable Development, City of Portland Water Bureau, Metro, Pacific Power, Portland Development Commission and Portland General Electric.
Why was the BEST Business Center established?
In the summer and fall of 2006, the Portland Office of Sustainable Development commissioned research with dozens of local small businesses. The research revealed that businesses will embrace resource efficiency and sustainability if services are delivered efficiently.
What are the goals?
The BEST Business Center delivers comprehensive, customized business conservation advice and assistance across a wide range of sectors — from energy and water efficiency and transportation to waste reduction, from sustainable purchasing to financing for systems improvements — that help conserve resources.
How is assistance provided?
After a business completes our Sustainability Survey with BEST Business Center staff, experts from an extensive pool of resource conservation organizations are available to assist businesses with in-person or phone consultations.
Portland is the first City in the country to create a Green Investment Fund (GIF), which is a five-year, $2.5 million grant-based fund given to commercial, industrial or residential projects demonstrating innovative green technologies and practices.