Ep. 7: 7 Steps to Planning for a Proactive Grant Strategy

Episode Summary:  Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, and guest Jennifer Zhan, all with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to develop a proactive grant strategy.  Listeners will learn the following in Episode 7:

• Background on Federal discretionary transportation grants – what they are, how they are advertised, and their recent history
• How grants play an important role for everyone and how they can benefit the public
• How grants are focusing on equity, sustainability, resilience, and climate change and what that means for the types of projects that are being selected for funding
• How innovation and technology is playing a role in discretionary grants
• 7 steps to planning a proactive grant strategy

Links:

• R.3684 – Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act legislation text https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684
• Federal Highway Administration “one-stop shop” for FHWA’s IIJA implementation https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/
• Justice40 Initiative

https://www.transportation.gov/equity-Justice40

• RAISE Grants

https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants

 

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has almost 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.
• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 13 years of experience in transportation planning and most recently got certified by MIT’s Media Lab in their Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten holds a Master of City and Regional Planning from Georgia Tech.

Guest Speaker:

• Jennifer Zhan, AICP, PTP has over 20 years of experience in planning and engineering and is co-founder of Modern Mobility Partners. Jen holds a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Clemson University, as well as an M.S. in Human Geography/GIS and a B.S. in Urban / Regional Planning from Nanjing University in China.

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm.  Service areas include transportation planning, travel demand modeling, traffic and revenue forecasting, traffic engineering, project prioritization and performance measures, funding strategies and grant applications, all looking through a lens of new and emerging technologies.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com.  If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast, please email podcast@modernmobilitypartners.com.