(Baldrige Foundation: Washington, DC) -- The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, known as the Baldrige Foundation, has released the 2026 Baldrige Excellence Framework for Business, Nonprofit, and Government organizations.

The new edition, developed in close partnership with and under the oversight of the Baldrige Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), gives organizations three places to begin, based on their current maturity, and offers a structured path for moving to the next level by strengthening leadership, improving processes, integrating systems, and achieving sustainable results.

Congress established the Baldrige Program in 1987 to strengthen U.S. competitiveness and quality of life, an effort initiated by Malcolm Baldrige, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, in association with President Ronald Reagan. The redesigned framework advances that national purpose by making proven performance excellence principles more accessible to organizations of every size and at every stage of development.

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