*The fees above also includes training fees for Evaluator(s) to an upcoming Board of Evaluators training session.  Because having internal knowledge of the Baldrige framework is critical to advancing excellence within your organization, the Minnesota Council for Quality requires applicant organizations to provide volunteer Evaluators to serve in the current MN Quality Award application cycle (or to make arrangements to serve in the next cycle).  Requirements are as follows:

Evaluators can be any staff member within the organization, but are typically senior leaders, quality/improvement professionals, and/or other functional leaders.  We seek a variety of expertise on our Board of Evaluators – those representing different sectors (manufacturing, service, non-profit, healthcare, education, and government), those possessing different functional expertise (quality, finance/accounting, human resources, operations, IT, etc.), and those at different levels of leadership.

The base fees above include Evaluator training fees as follows:

Upon successful completion of training and successful completion of service on a MN Quality Award evaluation team, the organization can receive an optional rebate of their evaluation fees above, according to how many Evaluators serve:

Organizations can elect to apply those discounts to future evaluations, apply them for additional Evaluators’ training fees, accept a cash rebate, or donate the rebate to the MN Council for Quality as an additional contribution.

If selecting Baldrige Express (survey-based evaluation), the fees above are for the first 100 web-based surveys.  Additional surveys are $25/survey for each survey over 100 ($40/survey for non-members).  And an additional processing charge of $10/survey ($25/survey for non-members) applies for paper version surveys instead of web.

Interested in participating in an assessment? Start the process now by submitting a Letter of Intent.