Publication

Internal Resilience in Humanitarian Organizations: A Conversation with Harold Brooks

by Kathleen Fleischauer, GRI Global Development Coordinator

An expert in disaster response, Harold Brooks, who served as Senior Vice President of International Operations for the American Red Cross’ International Services Department, CEO of the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter, and is one of the Global Resilience Institute’s Distinguished Senior Fellows, offers insight into how an organization that helps build resilience externally can also maintain internal resilience.

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Mark Patterson Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Canada

We are pleased to announce that GRI Chief Technology Officer Mark Patterson has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Canada as the Research Chair on Advancing Transdisciplinary Research on the Changing North at the Université Laval, Québec. Patterson will conduct research and lecture at the Université Laval in Québec City as part of a project to understand food security of first nation peoples dependent on kelp beds in the Canadian Arctic.

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Announcement

GRI Welcomes Distinguished Senior Fellow Josh Sawislak

Josh Sawislak is an internationally recognized expert on climate and disaster resilience and sustainable development and is the principal of Clio Strategies LLC. He advises governments, corporations, international organizations, and NGOs on building sustainable and resilient infrastructure and business opportunities in both the developed and developing world.

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Q&A

Sustainable Resilience Through Feminist and Antiracist Leadership

by Daniela Rincón Reyes, GRI Content Strategist

Our first resilience expert is GRI Director for Strategic Relationships, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs (SPPUA), Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, and recent book author, Dr. Jennie Stephens. In this Q&A, Dr. Stephens speaks about intersectional resilience and the need for feminist and anti-racist leadership in resilience efforts.

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Global Resilience Solutions

Discover GRI's research-driven efforts to build resilience in communities and organizations across the globe.

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Integrated Resilience Enhancement Solution

The Integrated Resilience Enhancement Solution (I-RES) is a research-based methodology and set of supporting processes, tools, and related services designed to analyze vulnerabilities to stress and disruption, identify and prioritize effective multi-dimensional resilience enhancing initiatives, and support the effective realization, funding, and performance validation of those initiatives. Learn More

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Cyber Resilience

The Global Resilience Institute (GRI) is at the forefront of developing the concept of Cyber Resilience and applying the relevant principles in the real world. Our mission includes developing and integrating leading innovations and best practices to create practical and affordable cyber security solutions for enterprises and government. Learn More

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Enterprise Continuity and Recovery Solutions

GRI works with organizations of all types to define, refine, and test comprehensive all-hazard Enterprise Continuity and Recovery Plans that minimize impact of disruption and speed up time to operational recovery. Additionally, GRI offers comprehensive Post-Incident Assessment to support building back “better and stronger.”Learn More

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Executive Education & Training

GRI offers customized executive, management, and staff level resilience training to companies, non-profit organizations, and public-sector entities. The result is a workforce that is empowered to understand, prioritize, and apply best resilience principles and solutions for managing multi-dimensional risks. Learn More

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Vetted Technology Resilience

GRI identifies, assesses, and advises on resilience-supporting technology solutions of all types. These solutions encompass decision-support and communication tools tailored for mitigating and managing hazards, as well as state-of-the-art analysis tools based on new approaches in artificial intelligence, and data and network science. Learn More

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Critical Infrastructure Resilience

GRI has a deep understanding of how infrastructure systems provide critical functions to communities and enterprises, and how cascading failures of these systems caused by disasters can threaten communities and societies. We leverage our extensive experience leading efforts to investigate these disasters for lessons that support communities in preparing for these events. Learn More

Post-Disaster Assessment and Advisory

GRI maintains an extensive network comprised of experts with deep operational experience in disaster response. When disaster strikes, we have a unique capability to tap into this network to assemble and deploy a select group of experts to serve as an operational assessment and advisory team to help communities recover and build back better and stronger. Learn More

Supply Chain, Transportation & Distribution System Resilience

GRI brings deep expertise to the business-critical nexus of Supply Chain, Transportation, and Distribution System security and resilience. We provide comprehensive resilience analyses and best practices and innovations from across the world to bear on design and operation of these critical systems. Learn More

Programs

Global Resilience Research Network

Launched in 2018, GRRN is a membership network of leading universities, institutes, non-profit organizations, and companies engaged in resilience research that informs the development of novel tools and applications.

Seed Grant program

GRI and Northeastern University are pioneering resilience-related initiatives that contribute to our primary focus areas.

Corporate Partnerships

GRI seeks private-sector collaborators who share the same commitment to advancing resilience best practices around the world by developing and deploying new tools, applications, and solutions.

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