Modern Roots March is an original educational and awareness campaign designed by Aii to elevate Damage Prevention. Now in its fifth year, Modern Roots March brings new language and resources to the dialogue to offer the public, policymakers, and industry stakeholders new ways to engage in infrastructure damage prevention and excavator safety.
Over the course of the entire month of March, Aii along with partnering organizations, helps elevate awareness and intuition about the state and location of buried infrastructure in the United States. We focus on the roots of modern infrastructure, reinforcing both the common sense and uncommon knowledge about the millions of miles of buried pipes, cables, and wires underfoot that power modern life.
This year, stakeholders have a direct way to engage that builds on their own brand, clientele, and mission while helping Aii reach millions more people with the critical message of protecting infrastructure and ensuring worker safety. We want to see safe, efficient, and resilient infrastructure, communities that have reliable access to water, power, and information, and workers who return to their loved ones every single day. That is the heart and motivation underpinning Modern Roots March.
Here is how you can engage:
By sponsoring the Fifth Annual Modern Roots March, you, your company, and your strategic partners can directly influence the resources and messaging of our campaign – bolstering the language, tools, and insights we share, and ensuring your vital work is seen by tens of millions of new viewers from the public to infrastructure stakeholders to high-level public policy officials at the local, state, and federal levels across the country.
Individual Supporter
Supporter levels begin at a simple $8.11 tax-deductible donation. This ensures that you individually receive recognition all year as an Aii Damage Prevention Champion! Your name is listed on our website among other leading damage prevention innovators. Your name, reputation, and insights help build up Modern Roots March to validate the important message and provide Aii access to your knowledge and insight as we pursue future research, education, and outreach. Your name is also viewable by the leading stakeholders and policymakers viewing the website during the high-impact, dynamic month of March and all year.
Company Supporter
When your company or organization pledges $811, your company name is written into our Modern Roots March webpage. Listed alongside peer organizations leading the way in ensuring damage prevention continues to advance best practices and technology, your company is a year-long Aii Damage Prevention Champion. Not only is your company name listed on the Aii Modern Roots March page, but is shared across social media throughout the campaign as we recognize and promote the work of valued partners and stakeholders.
Make a tax-deductible donation or request an invoice to facilitate your donation.
Modern Roots March Sponsor
With a $5,000 sponsorship, your company or organization has a direct voice in the Modern Roots March campaign. Your company logo is prominently displayed on our website, hyperlinked to your preferred web address and shared across our social media throughout the campaign. Displayed all year as an Aii Damage Prevention Champion, your company is enshrined for its leadership in protecting infrastructure and worker safety.
Your sponsorship also enables you to help shape our webpage and social media content, sharing your insight with our team to ensure the most high-impact campaign possible. Not only that, but your team can speak directly to our audience of industry leaders and public policymakers through a video interview with the Aii team. In the interview, you are able to voice your priorities, mission, and vision for damage prevention in the future – directly to the public, peer damage prevention stakeholders, new clients and customers, and policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels.
Make a donation directly at Aii.org or request an invoice to facilitate your donation.
You can help make Modern Roots March a national success. Bring the message of America’s modern roots to the whole country and around the world. Raise the infrastructure IQ of industry leaders and public policymakers. Help ensure that every person knows that millions of miles of pipes, cables, and wires run beneath our homes, buildings, water and gas systems, and more, visualizing them as simply as they do a tree having roots. When April’s National Safe Digging Month begins, everyone is ready to engage, knowing the modern roots all around them require a click or call to 811 every time, for every dig, because as we all know, damage prevention is a shared responsibility that starts with each of us.
Written by Benjamin Dierker, Executive Director
The Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure (Aii) is an independent, national research and educational organization working to advance innovation across industry and public policy. The only nationwide public policy think tank dedicated to infrastructure, Aii explores the intersection of economics, law, and public policy in the areas of climate, damage prevention, eminent domain, energy, infrastructure, innovation, technology, and transportation.