The Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) is a dynamic,
forward-thinking organization that serves as a resource to
enhance the practice of risk management throughout organizations
and communities. Serving public entities, small businesses, and
nonprofit organizations, PERI provides relevant and high quality
enterprise risk management information, training, data, and data
analysis.
PERI’s goal is to be an
organization that is seen by its principal customers and
stakeholders as the independent thought leader and definitive
resource in the field of risk management; as a constant
innovator; and as a ready source of practical and highly valued
products
PERI’s objectives are to:
Raise our
constituents’ awareness and understanding that managing
their organizations’ risk on an enterprise-wide basis is a
critical component of success;
Provide
practical, affordable, and easily accessible enterprise risk
management education and training resources to help PERI
constituents effectively manage risk on an enterprise-wide
and community-wide basis;
Serve as a
resource center and information clearinghouse
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Predicting Organizational Crisis Readiness: Perspectives
and Practices toward a Pathway to PreparednessThis report on organizational crisis
readiness from New York University’s Center for
Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) was
supported with funding from PERI, the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, Morgan Stanley, and the Prudential
Corporation. The report, Predicting Organizational
Crisis Readiness: Perspectives and Practices toward a
Pathway to Preparedness, is based on a study on the
level of crisis readiness among government, business,
and nonprofit organizations in the U.S. The findings
show that a large number of organizations lack effective
preparedness programs to respond to and recovery from a
crisis.
In the report, author Paul C. Light, PhD, Paulette
Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York
University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Policy,
and principal investigator of The Project on
Organizational and Community Preparedness at CCPR,
points to a broadly held belief that there is direct
relationship between population and hazards such that as
population increases, the number of hazards
proportionately increases. “Consequently, the crises
ahead are increasing both in complexity and frequency;
yet, levels of crises readiness among organizations
remains low and poorly understood.”
Dr. Light examines characteristics that better position
organizations to recover after a crisis, identifying
those that serve as significant predictors of crisis
readiness. A leading scholar on public and nonprofit
organizational performance, Dr. Light also presents
recommendations for enhancing organizational
preparedness. The report also includes the results of a
survey of opinion leaders from government, for-profit,
and non-profit sectors comparing crisis characteristics
of organizations.
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mission of this agency is to serve public, private, and
nonprofit organizations as a dynamic, forward thinking resource
for the practical enhancement of risk management.
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