Guidance to help local leaders compete and implement federal grant funding
Explore practical resources to help local leaders prepare for federal funding opportunities, develop stronger grant applications and successfully implement federally-funded projects. These guides draw on lessons from cities and towns that have pursued and delivered impactful projects for their communities.
Prepare for Federal Grants
- Opportunity Zones Primer
- Uniform Grants Guidance Explainer
- Benefit-Cost Analysis Guide
- Benefit-Cost Analysis Self Assessment
- Application Prep Checklist
- Three New Ways that Cities Can Use Fiscal Recovery Funds to Support Infrastructure Projects
- Supportive Services Can Promote Workforce Equity under BIL
- The Federal Government is Updating How It Administers Grants
- Investing in America’s Small Businesses
Build Competitive Applications
- Winning Strategies for Federal Infrastructure Grant Applications
- Six ways to make your BIL grant application more competitive
- Meeting Local Match Requirements in Infrastructure Projects
- Making Infrastructure More Equitable and Inclusive
- Examples of Communities Delivering Bold Infrastructure Projects from Accelerator for America
- Leveraging Data to Improve Traffic Safety Outcomes (Carlsbad, California)
- Innovative Financing for Public Infrastructure
- Planning Ahead: Long Range Planning for Success
- Innovative Capital Stacks: Ballot Measures
- Tampa’s Big Investment in Roadway Safety: Centering Vulnerable Road Users (Tampa, Florida)
- Building Resilient Infrastructure & Communities (Hoboken, New Jersey)
- Introduction to the Innovative Finance and Asset Concession Program
- Introduction to the Brownfields Program
- Replacing Bus Transfer Center with Off-Street Facility and EV Charging (Lincoln, Nebraska)
- Promoting Resident Safety in a Commuter Corridor (Mount Rainier, Maryland)
- Faster Internet That Is Locally Owned, Controlled and Operated (Waterloo, Iowa)
