Insurers play a key role in sending risk signals, sometimes in a form other than price. These risk experts need to lead by reframing the “insurance crisis” as the “insurability crisis,” and leveraging a time-tested safety standard approach to align a complex ecosystem of competing interests.
Homeowners who built their homes to IBHS certified FORTIFIED standards saved thousands after Hurricane Sally hit in 2020. The FORTIFIED building standard is saving homes from Category 3 storm damage, and also saving homeowners and insurance companies costs on annual insurance premiums and claims.
Municipal leaders have an opportunity to lead their communities to a resilient future and mitigate flood risk. A case study from Algonquin, IL highlights resiliency investments that have fundamentally transformed how flooding affects the community and have yielded significant cost savings.
The Resiliency Ecosystem spans various industries, infrastructure categories, political groups, and geographies. The Epicenter–in partnership with our parent organization, The Resiliency Company–seeks to convene leaders from across this ecosystem to tell a big story about resiliency and make the business case for investing in it.
In addition to publishing regular resiliency content to The Epicenter, we're exploring strategies to foster deeper engagement among participants in this ecosystem, including a Resiliency Events Calendar, Resiliency Podcast Playlist, and other forthcoming engagement initiatives.
This calendar curates events happening across the U.S. (both in-person and virtually) to advance the resiliency conversation. The calendar is community-sourced, please submit events for the calendar here.
See below for resources The Epicenter has begun curating from the wider resiliency ecosystem, as go-to sources for understanding and making the business case for adaptation and resiliency.
If you have other resources to recommend, please send them our way!
