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Write the impact narrative
Facts, not adjectives.
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Build a Disaster Declaration Support Document That Matches FEMA’s Ask
40 min
Intermediate
Government
Organize damages and costs the way reviewers score them, not as a press release.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Declaration packages fail on incomplete damage totals, missing insurance offsets, or vague unmet need.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build damage tables
Categories matter.
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Document unmet need
Why federal help.
04
Draft the transmittal package
Ready for signature.
Make Your Play
Build a Disaster Declaration Support Document That Matches FEMA’s Ask
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Dates, counties, declarations so far, ongoing threats.
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Homes, public infrastructure, estimates, insurance.
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What local/state can't cover, mutual aid, requests.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Write the impact narrative
Facts, not adjectives.
02
Build damage tables
Categories matter.
03
Document unmet need
Why federal help.
04
Draft the transmittal package
Ready for signature.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
You are 72 hours post-event and the governor's office needs a support doc for a major disaster request.
You'll need
- Event timeline and geography
- Damage and cost data
- Unmet need and resources
You'll get
- A a declaration support memo: impact narrative, damage inventory, and resource request you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a declaration support memo: impact narrative, damage inventory, and resource request you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
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