Contributor: United for Infrastructure
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are rescheduling our signature week of action to September 14-21, 2020. Please mark your calendars and stay tuned for updates on how to participate. In the coming months, we’ll post our calendar of events, social media shareable, and resource toolkit on our website to make it easy for you to engage in your community and in the press. We’ve collaborated with you on hundreds of events, webinars, open-houses and tours of facilities, and thought-leadership programs over the last seven years. We invite you to join us this September and to start early in planning how best to tell your infrastructure story.
Learn more and sign-up to participate!
In the meantime…
America’s infrastructure needs aren’t stopping, and neither are we. As Washington and communities around the country turn to infrastructure as one of the tools to get America’s economy moving again, we’ll be sharing new virtual programs to keep our work coming to you safely, wherever you are. Stay tuned for our new podcast series and upcoming webinars in the near future!
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And…announcing our new brand!
After seven successful years of Infrastructure Week, we’re excited to (officially) unveil our new brand for our national week of education, advocacy, press, and programming: United for Infrastructure 2020: A Week to Champion America’s Infrastructure.
What’s changed?
- The name of the week: United for Infrastructure 2020: A Week to Champion America’s Infrastructure
- Our Twitter Handle: follow us @United4Infra
What hasn’t changed?
- Our mission: educate American communities about the importance of infrastructure to daily life, health and safety, and jobs and the economy; elevate the projects, leaders, and ideas transforming America; and communicate the urgency of the issue to policymakers in Washington and around the country.
- Our resources: stay tuned for our toolkit of materials – social media graphics and messaging, templates for op-eds and blog posts, opportunities to engage in webinars and our podcast, and more!
- Our Steering Committee: the week is still led by the same group of national business, labor, and thought leadership groups as in years’ past: AFL-CIO, US Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, American Society of Civil Engineers, Value of Water Campaign, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, Building America’s Future, and the National Association of Manufacturers.
- Our Affiliates: more than 500 Affiliates – trade association, public works agencies, water utilities, city and local governments, and more – have joined us in the Week in years’ past. Affiliates participate on social media, in the press, plan local events and project tours, and highlight the projects, priorities, and leaders working to change the infrastructure story in their communities.
United for Infrastructure is proudly led by its Steering Committee:
Besides hosting the annual week of education and advocacy events, United for Infrastructure (in partnership with another great Host Committee) recently hosted the first-ever presidential candidate forum on infrastructure issues, Moving America Forward. Held Feb. 16 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the candidate forum featured candidates Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer. Jerry Seib and Jeanne Cummings of The Wall Street Journal moderated the event, and C-SPAN had a live broadcast on television and live-streamed the forum online. You can watch our forum trailer or the forum in its entirety here.
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