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Matri Lamb's exceptional contributions have played a pivotal role in facilitating Latinos for Education to secure more than $10M in funding over the past three years. With a remarkable talent for storytelling and research, Matri has consistently authored compelling proposals, reports, concept papers, and annual reports that effectively communicate the impact of our organization. She has been instrumental in shaping our organizational voice and fine-tuning our messaging to resonate with diverse audiences, including institutional and individual funders. Matri's collaborative and joyful approach makes her an indispensable asset to our team.

~Adriana Solís López, former Chief Development Officer, Latinos for Education

Matri is a keen listener, a critical skill in our organization. She was able to carefully absorb feedback and specific, often competing, requests from many different stakeholders in order to make effective adjustments to content, length, tone, format, and timeline that all parties could agree to without batting an eye. This organization is very particular, if not obsessive, about the wording we use across a variety of very different audiences; Matri was able to adapt to the organizational tone and thread the needle on written products that had to serve different purposes and audiences. She is a deep thinker, engaged collaborator, and flexible project manager. She helped our small organization produce new pieces of content in a range of styles (including blogs, case studies, and research briefs) that enhance our digital presence, online courses, and more.

~Sarah Westbrook, Director of Professional Learning, The Right Question Institute

Matri is such a spirited and skilled team member. When our nonprofit needed to expand our circles from regional to national, Matri helped us radically improve the quality of our written materials and messaging as well as the systems and structures we used to get the work done. Bringing Matri onto our team was central to our success in more than doubling our annual revenues in just three years, strategically expanding our circles of support and collaboration, and successfully launching a new program division.

Matri was an invaluable part of our development and communications team. She listened and questioned exquisitely – taking in both the big picture and the detailed nuance of our work.  She translated that into supporting documentation that is accurate, compelling, and inspirational.  In the five years that we worked together, we completed a major capital campaign and launched and funded a new division to develop trauma-informed and resilience-supporting programs and structures within our rural public schools. 

I have never had so much fun and been part of such an effective, efficient, and generative team, as during the years that Matri joined us as our communications specialist. I cannot recommend a person more highly.

~Alan Furth, Founding Executive Director, Cobscook Institute

Matri has a gift for giving words life. When partnering to write our end of year appeal, Matri wrote in a way that brought humor, kindness, and reflection and embodied the Ed Fund’s personality and intentions. She has a way with words that creates connection so that others will want to engage and take action. With Matri’s help, we were able to successfully exceed our fundraising goal for the end of year appeal effort! I look forward to our next opportunity to work with Matri again.

~Stacey Wang, CEO, San Francisco Education Fund

Working with Matri is always a dream. She helps us shape our big, often wordy and sometimes convoluted, ideas into texts that do work in the world. She has helped us with case statements, case studies, and grant applications and we are always made stronger by her clarity and care.

~Tanya Baker, Executive Director, National Writing Project

It has been a pleasure working with Matri. She brings a great combination of strategic writing, creativity, knowledge, and a willingness to work in a very flexible and efficient way.

~Matt Theodores, Executive Director, Maine Boys to Men

Matri’s writing is a winning combination of compelling narrative and convincing data. She’s skilled, responsive, thorough and adaptable: everything a busy executive director wants in a writing consultant.

~David Unger, Executive Director, Speaking Up for Us