Green Investment Fund (GIF)

The Green Investment Fund (GIF) was established in 2005 as a 5-year, $2.5 million competitive grant program that supported innovative green building projects within the City of Portland. A total of $425,000 was awarded annually from 2005 through 2009. Public and private industrial, multifamily, residential, commercial, mixed-use and non-profit projects have all received grants through the program. Grant funds have been fully committed to 36 high performance projects either completed or still in development. BPS will not be accepting applications for future funding. For information about other funding opportunities,please contact the Green Building Hotline at 503-823-5431.

The primary intent of the GIF is to support early building and site-related project activities that examine the potential and identify the means to realize an exemplary, comprehensive green building project. GIF grants are secondarily intended to help offset the incremental hard costs of the green building measures or strategies that most strongly contribute to the building’s ability to meet the GIF goals and priorities.

The Green Investment Fund is sponsored by the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Water Bureau and Energy Trust of Oregon, Inc.