The Local Infrastructure Hub is hosting a virtual session to discuss how municipal leaders can insulate their infrastructure development goals from fiscal uncertainty by optimizing grants management processes. Best practices such as establishing a governance model, building an annual grant plan, establishing a data management system and operating with cash and compliance discipline are some of the strategies that decision-makers can implement to ensure that long-term infrastructure priorities are advanced in an evolving funding environment. Grants management experts, including Matt Hanson, Managing Director of Government Advisory Services at Witt O’Brien’s, will highlight how enhancing your city’s grants function can help reduce administrative barriers to applying for grants, reduce reporting burdens, save money and raise additional revenue — leaving more time and money available for public engagement and delivering and implementing programs and services for your residents. Attendees will leave this session with access to a realistic 90-day plan, examples from cities who have won grant funding using these model strategies and will have the opportunity to ask questions about how to implement these processes.


