- Advocate for state and federal funding for infrastructure improvement and expansion in rural areas.
- Resources for maintaining and developing water and wastewater infrastructure.
- Resources for expansion and implementation of rural broadband.
Key Infrastructure funding programs include USDA Rural Development (grants and loans); Community Development Block
Grant; Ohio Public Works; EPA Brownfields; Appalachian Regional Commission and the Ohio Governor’s Office of Appalachia
(through the Ohio Development Services Agency) and U.S. Economic Development Administration.