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Mississippi Mississippi Quality Award
This Baldrige-based award focuses on education and economic development rather than competition. Four levels of awards are possible: Quality Interest, Quality Commitment, the Excellence Award and the Governor's Award. Companies at all levels of quality achievement are encouraged to apply. Categories: Any public or privately held organization of any size. Schedule: Jan.--applications available. July--applications due. Dec.--winners announced.
Missouri Missouri Quality Award
The Baldrige-based Missouri Quality Award is designed to stimulate continuous improvement in the quality of products and services, customer satisfaction and global competitiveness. The categories vary slightly from the Baldrige, as listed below. Missouri also has a recognition for teams in the Missouri Team Quality Award and at the individual level with the Governor's Quality Leadership Award. Categories: Profit and nonprofit manufacturing, service, education, health care and public-sector organizations: small (fewer than 100 employees), medium (100-499 employees) and large (500 or more employees). Schedule: April--eligibility determination due. June--award applications due. Jan. 2001--awards ceremony.
Nebraska The Edgerton Quality Awards
The Edgerton Quality Awards recognize continuous process improvement and adaptation of technology in each category. Awards are presented at three levels: The Edgerton Award of Commitment, The Edgerton Award of Progress and the Edgerton Award of Excellence. Categories: For-profit manufacturing and service organizations and not-for-profit health care facilities. Schedule: Oct.--eligibility forms due. Feb. --applications due. May 3. --awards ceremony.
New Hampshire Granite State Quality Award
The award uses the Baldrige criteria and recognizes organizations that embrace technological change as a method to achieve maximum productivity at the lowest cost; utilize continuous improvement methods to provide efficient, safe and challenging work; stimulate business growth; upgrade public and private education to promote quality awareness; promote environmental awareness; and improve living and working conditions. Awards may be presented for excellence in any of the seven Baldrige categories, and level awards recognize companies at different stages of their quality journey. Categories: Manufacturing and service: small (fewer than 200 employees) and large (200 or more employees). Schedule: Dec.--applications due. June--awards ceremony.
New Jersey Governor's Award for Performance Excellence
The New Jersey Governor's Award for Performance Excellence has three recognition approaches: Interest in Performance Excellence, an examiner-facilitated self-assessment; Involvement in Performance Excellence, an internal organizational self-assessment; and Progress to Performance Excellence, a mini-application and examiner-assessed approach. Award levels include the Governor's Award for Performance Excellence at the gold, silver and bronze levels for overall excellence. Categories: Manufacturing and service, small business--200 or fewer employees, government, education, health care and nonprofit. Schedule: April--eligibility forms due. June--award applications due. Nov.--award winner notification. Dec.--awards conference.
New Mexico New Mexico Quality Awards
Quality New Mexico applicants use the Baldrige criteria for self-assessment and award application at three levels: commitment, progress and performance excellence. There is no limit to the number of awards at each level. Categories: Any New Mexico organization, public or private, with five or more employees. Schedule: March--applications available. Sept.--applications due. March/April--conference and awards ceremony.
New York The Empire State Advantage
The Governor's Award For Excellence represents the highest form of recognition for performance excellence and quality in New York State. The ESA Program registers organizations as Empire State Gold or Empire State Silver after certifying their management systems' soundness and effectiveness against the management standards found in the program's criteria. Categories: Private, education, health care, government sectors and nonprofit. Schedule: The award cycle runs once a year and concludes in late spring; the ESA program runs in four cycles throughout the year.
North Carolina North Carolina Performance Excellence Process
This recognition process uses the 19 items from the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria and locally developed training materials. There are four steps at which organizations may apply. The Involvement Step evaluates four items and is intended to be an introduction into the process. The Commitment Step evaluates seven items. The Advancement Step evaluates 13 items. The Leadership Step is for organizations wanting a full assessment against all 19 items. All participants receive recognition at the level which best reflects their performance excellence maturity. Categories: Small (up to 99 employees), medium (100-499 employees) and large (500 or more employees) organizations, including manufacturing, service (including nonprofit), educational and public sector. Schedule: Jan.--applications of intent due. June--award applications due. Jan.--awards ceremony. Involvement Step applications are welcome any time during the year.
Ohio Dayton Area Quality Excellence Award
The award provides four organizational levels: serious commitment, exemplary progress, significant achievement and excellence. A new award for team excellence has also been added. Categories: Any type of organization in the defined geographic area can apply. Schedule: April--letters of intent due. July--award applications due. Dec.--winners notified.
Governor's Award for Team Excellence in Manufacturing
This award recognizes teamwork and employee involvement activities in quality processes in manufacturing. Participating teams make presentations demonstrating their use of quality tools and processes. Projects are evaluated against a set of criteria representing the standard elements of any quality process. Categories: Manufacturing only. Two categories: small plant division (fewer than 500 employees) and large plant division (500 or more employees). Schedule: June--applications due. Oct.--preliminary competition presentations. Dec.--finals and awards ceremony.
Ohio Award for Excellence
This annual performance excellence award has four participation levels: Pledge Toward Excellence, Commitment to Excellence, Achievement of Excellence and Governor's Award for Excellence. Categories: Large and small businesses, manufacturing, service, education, government, health care and nonprofit. Schedule: Nov.--applications due. June--feedback report. June--winners selected.
Team Excellence in the Public Sector
This award demonstrates the value of teamwork and employee involvement in the public sector. Teams showcase what they have accomplished through the use of quality tools and improvement processes. Categories: Teams employed by townships, counties, municipalities, or state or federal agencies. Schedule: April--applications due. Sept.--showcase presentations. Dec.--awards presentation.
Oklahoma Oklahoma Quality Award
The Oklahoma Quality Award has no limit on awards given in a category. The award has three levels: commitment, achievement and excellence. To be eligible, an organization must have operated in Oklahoma for three years, and its major business function must be verified in Oklahoma. Categories: Three categories for organizations in manufacturing, service, health care, education and government. Category 1: 1-50 employees; category 2: 51-250 employees; category 3: more than 250 employees. Schedule: May--applications due. Oct.--awards ceremony.
Oregon Oregon Quality Award
Four levels of recognition are available: Governor's Trophy, Oregon Quality Award, Certificate of Quality Achievement and Certificate of Quality Commitment. Categories: Open to all organizations from the private, public and nonprofit sectors. Schedule: June--applications available. May--award winners recognized.
Pennsylvania Greater Pittsburgh Total Quality Award
Organizations from all sectors may apply but must have headquarters in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington or Westmoreland counties. Winners will be selected from each of the Baldrige categories. Categories: Applicants may apply for any of the Baldrige categories. Schedule: Award program is currently suspended--call for more information or status update.
Lancaster Chamber Performance Excellence Award
Any organization currently doing business in the Lancaster County region may apply. The four award levels are excellence, leadership, achievement and commitment. Categories: Publicly or privately held organizations of any size, government agencies, academic or educational institutions, health care, banking, service, manufacturing and nonprofits. Schedule: Jan.--letter of intent. Feb.--applications due. May--recognition and presentation of awards.
Quality Valley USA Organization Excellence Award
Any publicly or privately held organization of any size in the Lehigh Valley region may apply for this award. Organizations may apply to three award levels: highest achievement, significant progress and serious commitment. Categories: Manufacturing, service, nonprofit, health care, education, finance, government and retail. Schedule: Nov.--applications available. July--application deadline. Oct.--winners announced.
Rhode Island Rhode Island Quality Awards
The Rhode Island Quality Awards are available to Rhode Island organizations of all sizes and sectors. There are three levels of recognition. Categories: Manufacturing, service, nonprofit, health care, education, government and retail. Schedule: Call.
South Carolina South Carolina Governor's Quality Award
Quality awards recognize South Carolina organizations of all sizes and sectors. The Governor's Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the development and implementation of quality management systems. A Gold Achiever award recognizes outstanding progress, a Silver Achiever award recognizes significant progress and a Bronze Achiever Award recognizes progress. Categories: Public and private organizations, manufacturing, service, government, education, health care and nonprofit. Schedule: July--intent. Sept.--application due. April--awards ceremony.
Trident Area Quality Awards
The Trident Area Quality Award program seeks to promote, encourage and recognize team and organizational quality improvement efforts and provide public recognition for successful programs and organizations. The program, which is based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, includes a team award portion as well as an organizational award portion. The team award program recognizes three specific levels of achievement while the organizational program recognizes four specific levels.
South Dakota South Dakota Business Excellence Awards
These awards are presented every two years, with the next event to be held in 2000. They are presented in eight categories: community awareness, environmental awareness, innovative marketing/customer service, job creation, manufacturing/production, new South Dakota product/venture, quality, and workplace environment and safety. Within the quality category, an award is given to the business demonstrating exceptional performance in total quality management. Categories: Any private-sector, nongovernment, for-profit business. Schedule: Feb.--applications available. July--applications due. Sept./Oct.--awards ceremony.
Tennessee Greater Memphis Award for Quality
This award is open to all companies in the Greater Memphis Area and all contiguous counties. There are three levels for applicants. The best applicant from Level III receives an award, though all applicants are recognized. Categories: Any organization. Schedule: Sept.--applications due.
Tennessee Quality Award
This award has four levels: quality interest, quality commitment, quality achievement and the Excellence Quality Award. Categories: Any public or private organization. Schedule: July--applications of intent due. Aug.--award applications due. Feb.--awards ceremony.
Texas Greater Austin Quality Award
This regional program has three levels of application to permit beginners, intermediates and advanced level organizations to learn and to grow their quality system into worldwide competitiveness. Four awards are available: commitment, progress, significant merit and highest achievement. Categories: Any organization may apply. Schedule: May--applications due. Oct.--awards presentation.
Houston Awards for Excellence
Any business located in the seven counties surrounding Harris County may apply for these awards. All entries, with the exception of those in the hospitals category, will be judged by panels made up of experts from the University of Houston College of Business Administration. A faculty panel from the University of Texas School of Public Health will judge entries in the hospitals category. Categories: Environment, retail (small and large), manufacturing (small and large), service (small and large), ethics, hospitals, automobile dealerships, professional services and hotels. Schedule: To be determined.
Northwest Texas Quality Award
The Northwest Texas Quality Awards recognize the achievements of organizations in the Northwest Texas area that are committed to and practicing continuous quality improvement. Categories: Government, education, service, nonprofit and manufacturing. Schedule: Dec.--applications available. April--applications due. June--awards ceremony.
Texas Award for Performance Excellence
The Texas Award has three award levels: commitment (entry level), achievement (mid-level) and the Texas Quality Award. Categories: Educational institutions, health care, government agencies, and large and small businesses. Schedule: March--applications available. Nov.--eligibility requests due. Dec.--award applications due. June--awards ceremony.
Utah Utah Quality Awards
There are three award classifications: the Utah Continuous Improvement Award, the Utah Quality Award and the Governor's Quality Award. Categories: Large, medium and small manufacturing, service, nonprofit, government, health care and education. Schedule: Criteria and dates can be downloaded from Web site.
Vermont Vermont Program for Performance Excellence
The four levels of recognition are interest, commitment, achievement and the Governor's Award for Excellence. Categories: Any organization including profit and nonprofit, manufacturing, education, health care, government and service. Schedule: Ongoing assessments year-round. Recognition ceremony in May.
Virginia U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award
All Virginia organizations in the public sector are eligible to apply for this award. There are three levels of recognition: a medallion for each category's outstanding organizations, a plaque for each category's nonmedallion finalists and a certificate of merit for honorable mention status. Categories: Private, manufacturing, private service, state and federal agencies, and local agencies. Schedule: Aug.--applications available. Nov.--applications due. April--awards ceremony and conference.
Washington Washington State Quality Award
The Washington State Quality Award recognizes organizations that have achieved a high level of performance excellence. Categories: Private, government, nonprofit, health care and education. The categories are further divided by organization size: small (fewer than 200) and large (200 or more). Schedule: April--applications available. Aug.--eligibility forms due. Nov.--award applications due.
Wisconsin Wisconsin Forward Award
The Forward Award annually recognizes Wisconsin organizations for achievements in quality improvement and performance. Categories: All organizations, including profit and nonprofit, manufacturing, education, government, and service. Schedule: June--Applications due. Nov.--awards banqu |
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