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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$750.0K
- Private
- US
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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 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; - Operate a national risk data exchange that fosters the development, collection, and analysis of loss data and information; - Support innovation in risk management through grants and sponsored research; and - Operate an Enterprise Investment Program that supports the development of innovative risk management products and services designed to support risk management practices in public entities, small nonprofits, and small businesses. PERI provides synergy among existing programs and organizations and serves as a catalyst in the risk management field and a vehicle for allocating greater resources to key needs in risk management. ...
Number of Employees 7
Contact Information
11350 Random Hills RD Ste 210
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
1 703 352 1846
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NAICS Code Other Social Advocacy Organizations: 813319
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Bickmore Risk Services & Consulting Collaborating With the Public Entity Risk Institute
- 2008-06-02
Collaboration Includes Metrics-Driven Workshops Nationwide SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Bickmore Risk Services & Consulting BRS, one of the largest and fastest growing independent risk management consulting firms in the US, announced today it is collaborating with the Public Entity Risk Institute PERI, a leading nonprofit research institute focused on risk...
Integrated Risk Management and Fire Fighter Safety in the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service
BNET
- 2005-11-06
The requirement that each Fire and Rescue Service in the United Kingdom UK should develop an Integrated Risk Management Plan IRMP was first proposed by Professor Sir George Bain in his report entitled "The Future of the Fire Service: Reducing Risk - Saving Lives," published in December 2002 and commissioned...
Public Entity Risk Institute; www.riskinstitute.org.(Best of the Web)(Web site evaluation)(Brief Article)
- 2003-11-03
Byline: Rodd Zolkos The Public Entity Risk Institute was formed to serve public, private and nonprofit organizations as a resource for the enhancement of risk management and a resource center and clearinghouse for information on all areas of risk management. The...
Readying Small Businesses for Recovery: Palm Beach County's Approach
BNET
- 2003-01-01
Government and insurance industry statistics consistently suggest that more than half of disaster-victimized businesses either never reopen or fail after reopening. A substantial percentage of these failures are small businesses. It has become increasingly evident that disaster-related business failures have a dramatic and long-term impact on communities. Article illustrates the...
Discrimination & Harassment in the Workplace: Five Essential Strategies for Smarter Risk Management
BNET
- 2003-01-01
Discrimination and harassment are costly to an organization – and to each person in it – so the focus must always be the prevention of risk and wrongdoing. However, once a problem arises, an organization must act with no tolerance for such wrongdoing, maintaining proactive observation and communication along with...
Hard Market: A Double Entendre that Means Work for You
BNET
- 2002-01-01
This article gives some historical perspective to the current hard market, helps understand the cyclical nature of the insurance market, and suggests steps that small companies, public entities and nonprofit organizations may employ to prepare for and weather the hard market. Steps being taken to improve underwriting results and profitability...
Risk Management Concerns Are Employee-Centered.
- 2001-04-01
Risks arise for a local government all the time, and, for any given jurisdiction, the most pressing risk management concern can be almost anything at any given moment. What, though, are the overriding concerns of public jurisdictions--those that cut across geographic and size boundaries? ...
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