Laurel Matula Email & Phone Number

There's no one right way for a community to fiscally recover from a disaster. But there are lots of wrong ways. I help steer client communities away from recovery process pitfalls. I work to understand the bigger picture and find & layer funding to get to the desired goal. I’m a funding navigator, of sorts. For communities that don’t think they need a navigator, my knowledge and experience have been distilled into ER Assist’s grant administration tools. Communities using this software find a grant admin costs savings of approx. 50%. That’s kind of a big deal, no matter who your math teacher was. My bread and butter are expense and compliance documentation. I turn documents into data, and data into funding. Spreadsheets are my happy place (nope, not kidding). Give me your box of documents, set me to work, and I bet you’ll be pleased with the result. But, if you want to be more than pleased, involve me from the beginning of a disaster. That’s where I can help with incentives and optimizations (did you know a community can “make” money on debris cleanup? Let me show you how!). But wait, there’s more! I build market reports for disaster contractors. Want to know what counties are about to be declared a disaster and want to know an estimated debris cubic yardage, drop me an email. Want to know the total dollar amount FEMA has funded a county in the past 3 years, give me a call. Test me, I’m up for the challenge. Ultimately, my goal is to protect disaster recovery contributions by working to ensure they are part of a collaborative (and perhaps upgraded) solution. No funder (not even the federal government), wants to throw money down a black hole, pay to attempt to "boil an ocean," or fund something that is most likely going to be destroyed by another disaster in the next 5 years. I make disaster dollars smarter, better, faster, cheaper, and more effective. We should talk.

Listed skills include Databases, Data Analysis, Disaster Response, Analysis, and 7 others.

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  United States Air Force Academy

  Behavioral Sciences