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REGIONAL Technical Assistance PROVIDERS
There are a number of technical assistance providers that provide support to municipalities in the Great Lakes region. Some programs focus on particular water management issues, such as water quality improvements or flooding, while others are tailored to particular types of communities, e.g., small or rural utilities.
To streamline access to these resources and help identify which provider is best-suited to your needs, the sections below provide details about these regional technical assistance providers, including an overview of the program, the types of assistance they provide, how to access the assistance, easy-access to contact information, and ideas on which grants each TA provider may be able to help with.
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Delta Institute
Delta Institute technical assistance services aim to engage directly with water utilities and communities to create concrete actions that put communities on the path to receiving SRF funding. The technical assistance services include:
- Planning and assessment, such as water infrastructure project identification, planning, and set-up
- Project development, such as ensuring project readiness for SRF applications
- Funding and financing, including application assistance to secure state-based SRF investment and compliance and risk mitigation advisement
- Program management support, such as project maintenance, stewardship, and long-term planning.
The Delta Institute Water Technical Assistance Request form can be found at the bottom of this page here.
Additional contact info is here:
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Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center
The Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center is a designated EFC, along with the Delta Institute and Great Lakes Community Action Partnership, for EPA Region 5.
GLIEC technical assistance provides access to subject matter experts from Michigan Technological University, including civil, environmental, and geotechnical engineers, as well as experts in finance, economics, ecosystem evaluation, and sustainable energy.
GLIEC technical assistance provides access to subject matter experts from Michigan Technological University, including civil, environmental, and geotechnical engineers, as well as experts in finance, economics, ecosystem evaluation, and sustainable energy. In addition, GLIEC project staff includes experts in software engineering, technical writing, technical support specialists, and business and accounting staff. GLIEC team members will provide over-the-phone and on-site engineering research and recommendations on a wide variety of environmental and financial questions. It can also provides the following services:
- Training
- Professional development
- Networking with subject matter experts and other professionals
- Technical assistance
- Access to new technology
- Publications
- Demonstration and research guidance projects
To access assistance complete the “Request Technical Assistance” questionnaire.
Additional contact info is here:
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Michigan Infrastructure Office Technical Assistance Center
The Michigan Infrastructure Office of Technical Assistance Center provides technical assistance, planning, and matching grants to local units of government, planning organizations, and federally recognized Tribal nations to help Michigan communities access federal infrastructure funds.
MIO TAC currently offers the following three support services:
- Grant Identification and Project Matching
- Applicant brings the TAC projects(s) they are interested in finding funding opportunities for, and TAC helps them find an appropriate grant to apply for.
- Services: Workshops and resources tailored to the recipient community’s projects to support grant education, identification, and prioritization.
- Grant Writing
- Applicant brings TAC a project and a target grant, and TAC helps them apply for the grant with grant writing services to complete the application.
- Services: Narrative grant writing to craft a competitive application, Benefit-Cost Analysis to provide commonly required analysis on quantifiable benefits and costs of the project, and application process management to help develop and keep to effective grant writing timelines.
- Match Funding
- Applicant brings TAC a project and a target grant with a match funding requirement, and TAC provides them with funding.
- Services: TAC will earmark all or a portion of the match funding required to qualify for grant application. If the application is successful, TAC will disburse match funding. If it is not, earmarked funding will be returned to TAC funding pool. Applicants can apply for only match funding if they do not need grant writing services.
Full guidance on the above services can be found here.
There is a separate application for grant identification assistance, and a separate application for grant writing and match funding assistance. Applicants may apply for more than one type of support and submit more than one application for each type of support.
Reach out to MIO TAC directly:
- Grant Identification and Project Matching
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STEP 2. Select Priority Projects
