How Small Players Can Leverage Infrastructure Funding

| By Robert Sheets

Last summer, Ellory Monks and Shalini Vajjhala writing for the Brookings Institute, noted that $850 billion of funding is coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). They rightfully note that funding like this typically goes to larger, wealthier communities. This is partly because those communities often have shovel-ready projects. Granting authorities are comfortable with their track record. These communities have the human and capital resources necessary to get the grants, edging out “first-time, low-capacity or smaller-scale applicants.”