Tim Lovell Dr. Lovell is the Executive Director of Tulsa Partners, Inc., where he oversees a variety of activities related to mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. He was recruited by the City of Tulsa Project Impact office in May 2000 after nearly 20 years of working with faith-based and community-based organizations in the areas of social service ministry, community revitalization, and historic preservation. In these areas, he developed a particular emphasis on using public-private partnerships, grant writing, and resource development to meet community goals. Building on his past experience and the existing multi-hazard mitigation activities of the Tulsa community, Mr. Lovell utilized partners to implement grants promoting tornado saferooms. He assisted in the creation of Tulsa Partners, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency designed to support the building of a disaster-resistant and sustainable community. He oversaw the process that created the Tulsa Citizen Corps umbrella of homeland security volunteer programs. He negotiated a partnership with a local McDonald's cooperative that led to the 2003 Tulsa McReady initiative, later expanded statewide under the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and other partners. Mr. Lovell became the Executive Director of Tulsa Partners, Inc., in 2004. Under his leadership, Tulsa Partners has undertaken a variety of initiatives, including administering the initial grant for the Medical Reserve Corps, now a separate statewide program; supporting the ongoing work of the Disaster Resistant Business Council, the Language and Culture Bank, and the Millennium Center for Green and Safe Living; providing disaster planning workshops to schools, childcare centers, long-term care facilities, hospitals, small businesses, nonprofit agencies, and other groups with special needs in disasters; developing, with Save The Children® and local entities, a Children’s Annex to Tulsa’s Emergency Operations Plan, the first in the nation; creating, with other stakeholders, Tulsa’s first neighborhood emergency operations plan; working with Oklahoma-based firm Flanagan and Associates on hazard mitigation planning, including a historic property and cultural resource annex to Tulsa’s Hazard Mitigation Plan, another first in the nation; assisting Tulsa Public Schools on emergency preparedness planning through their U.S. Department of Education Readiness in Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) grant; and creating a Green Building Resource Library on disaster-resistant and green construction and rehabilitation, under the auspices of the Millennium Center project. Mr. Lovell has spoken about Tulsa's award-winning programs to various boards and conferences in the United States and Canada. He has served on national ad hoc committees reviewing the integration of emergency management with historic/cultural resource preservation. He currently serves as a founding board member of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association.
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