For planning purposes, assessments are an important first step to gain understanding of your company’s current sustainability efforts.  Many businesses are already underway.  An assessment can help a company measure, monitor, coordinate, and benchmark their existing efforts, and identify areas needing improvement. Your organization can now make sound business decisions on critical future actions, with a sound plan in hand.

Northwest Food Processors has partnered to develop a food processing industry specific sustainability assessment. This will help your company evaluate important environmental, social, and economic sustainability practices and shortfalls throughout your enterprise. Helping you understand the Global Reporting Initiative (the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework), and other worldwide reporting standards, NWFPA will help you assess your current position in your sustainability journey, as well as helping you develop a common sense plan for ongoing and continuous improvement efforts.

Our industry is facing many challenges, and sustainability is a critical component of success. Understanding what these known and unknown challenges are, and where you stand today, is crucial to planning your future.  NWFPA is ready to offer assistance and guidance on where your business needs to go, and how to get there. Sound sustainable business practices are essential to your success, not only from a business operations standpoint, but also from implementation, compliance and reporting perspectives. It can be complicated. Let us help you prepare for your sustainable future.

NWFPA offers web-based Readiness and Assessment tools to help you measure your sustainable business preparedness and practices, and help you develop an effective plan for success: