IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PUBLIC ENTITY RISK INSTITUTE

On September 30, the Public Risk Institute (PERI) closed its offices in Fairfax, Virginia. The PERI Board of Directors met recently to determine the future direction of the refocused organization and will release a Request for Proposals ("RFP") in 2012. PERI seeks to identify a partner organization to advance risk management thought leadership in the public sector. If you are interested in receiving the RFP, please email your address and a point of contact to publicentityriskinstitute@gmail.com

Notice of Request for Proposals

The PERI Bookstore has closed. Titles previously sold by PERI are now available from the following sources:

• Success Stories: Public Entities Adopt ERM Best Practices by Kristina Narvaez will be available here www.erm-strategies.com.
• The following publications will be available here www.disasterbookstore.com:
  • Managing for Long-Term Community Recovery in the Aftermath of Disaster
  • Challenges of Emergency Management in Higher Education: Planning and Strategies
  • Holistic Disaster Recovery: Ideas for Building Local Sustainability After a Natural Disaster
  • Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2005
  • Characteristics of Effective Emergency Management Organizational Structures
  • Are you Ready? What Lawyers Need to Know About Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Recovery
  • Integrating Emergency Management Studies into Higher Education: Ideas, Programs, and Strategies
  • Ideas From An Emerging Field: Teaching Emergency Management in Higher Education
  • Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices and Conversations
• The DVD, The Water's Edge: Profits and Policy Behind the Rising Catastrophe of Floods is available from the producer, Marshall Frech. Contact him here mfrech@tec.org.
• Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework will be available on the Island Press website http://islandpress.org.
• For information about Leading and Managing Volunteer & Combination Fire & Rescue Departments Skills Manual and Student Manual contact the National Volunteer Fire Council http://www.nvfc.org/

If you need to contact PERI, please email publicentityriskinstitute@gmail.com.

The PERI Board thanks it constituent groups for their support since the organization's formation in 1997 and looks forward to working with the public risk management community in the future. In the meantime, please continue to enjoy the PERI Resource Library on this website. Click here to go to the Resource Library.