OVERVIEW
Through our partnership with California Resilience Partnership, the California Project Preparation Initiative (CPPI) supports communities in advancing infrastructure projects that build equity and resilience and show great promise for community impact by preparing these projects to capitalize upon unprecedented levels of federal and state funding.
The passage of the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, and of California’s historic 2021 and 2022 State budget, unlocked a once in a generation amount of federal and state resources to support critical infrastructure investments. CPPI ensures that communities most in need of these investments can overcome barriers and achieve inter-generalization impact.
Program scope for a typical infrastructure project includes:
CPPI identifies promising, community-supported projects and work with partners and key stakeholders to:
Create Stronger Project Narratives
Incorporate Additional Equity and Resilience Benefits
Mitigate Obstacles to Success
Identify State and Federal Funding Sources, Including Options for Meeting Local Match Requirements
Build Lasting Capacity to Develop Future Projects
Project leaders from selected communities receive:
Assistance on writing competitive grant applications
Technical design and cost-benefit analysis support from leading global design and build firms
Capacity support in producing materials to help secure project funding, including a concept note and roadshow
Support for community engagement, including through small grants
Technical support in incorporating global best practices in project design in a way that best supports community needs
CPPI supports the following activities:
Project level kick-off sharing current state of project detail
Project diagnosis and planning for in-person workshops
Project Agenda Setting Workshop
Enhancing the impact story: Maturing the project goals
Mapping and understanding the Funding landscape
Community stakeholder input and design
High-level project work plan
Deeper project definition through Direct Technical Assistance
Could include:
Preliminary Design Drawings
Cost benefit analysis
Improved costing estimates & funding strategies
Enhanced project-benefits
Enhanced and competitive project narrative and roadshow
Clear funding roadmap
Federal and State Grant writing support
Action plan for next phases of project
PROJECTS
PROJECT CRITERIA
Project Size: Project cost ranges $5 million to $200 million.
Infrastructure: Projects beyond the planning stage include an infrastructure component that serves under-resourced populations and the public at large as part of the design.
Climate Change & Equity: Projects address climate change through adaptive and/or mitigative measures, with particular attention to socio-economic inequities.
Local Leadership Commitment: Projects have local leadership support for implementation.
Grounded in Community-based Planning: Project emerged from previous community-based planning efforts (like a general plan, resilience strategy, climate and resilience plans, or economic development plan).
In addition, projects incorporate the following principles:
