NIST Baldrige Performance Excellence Program
The Baldrige Program oversees the nation's only Presidential award for performance excellence while offering a wide array of award-winning products and services, including the world-renowned Baldrige Excellence Framework. We invite you to learn about the Baldrige community dedicated to helping organizations improve.
Baldrige Institute for Performance Excellence
The Baldrige Foundation Institute for Performance Excellence is a thought leader on performance excellence, leadership and management. Our team carries out this mission in a number of ways: undertaking research projects, hosting conferences and activities, conducting executive-level and online professional development and skills training, making resources available to enhance organizational performance, and publishing and distributing a wide variety of educational materials to share best practices.
Baldrige Alliance
The need to improve your organization’s performance has never been greater: customers expect more, good employees are hard to find, you have to do more with less, and competition is intensifying.
But where do you start?
How do you know which processes need the most attention?
And how do you achieve – and sustain – high performance over time?
The Baldrige Alliance and Member programs and partners can help you get started.
ASQ American Society for Quality
ASQ serves a membership of quality professionals through educational advancement. As your career partner, ASQ membership benefits are designed to help meet your growing needs as a quality professional. Your individual ASQ Membership provides exclusive access to quality knowledge, solutions and resources to solve challenges, and skill development to advance your career. ASQ is committed to providing enhanced expertise, professional networks, tools, and solutions to help our members advance their products, services, and industries..
Albuquerque Quality Network (AQN)
AQN is a non-profit organization directed by business professionals focused on providing education and training in quality.
The mission of AQN is to educate the Albuquerque business community on quality principles and processes to improve organizational performance.
The Partnership for Excellence
the Partnership for Excellence (TPE) is a Baldrige-based program serving Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia, dedicated to performance excellence by:
Raising awareness about the value of performance excellence in driving regional, state and the national economy
Providing organizational assessment tools and criteria
Educating leaders in businesses, schools, health care organizations, government, and nonprofit agencies about the practices of best-in-class organizations
Recognizing state role models and honoring them with the only state awards for performance excellence
Communities of Excellence
Communities of Excellence 2026 (COE 2026) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that hosts a national learning collaborative of communities across the country, trains communities in the Baldrige-based Communities of Excellence Framework, and provides opportunities for communities to work together, share successes, challenges, ideas and best practices, and learn from each other on their performance excellence journey.