For Immediate Release
Contact: Amy Coates Madsen
Director, Standards for Excellence Institute®
acmadsen@standardsforexcellence.org
www.standardsforexcellence.org
443-438-2314
The Standards for Excellence® Institute partners with the Nonprofit Support Group to help nonprofits achieve the highest governance and management standards.
Baltimore, MD – March 25, 2025 – The Standards for Excellence® Institute, a nation-wide initiative dedicated to promoting the highest standards of ethics and accountability in nonprofit governance, management, and operations, announces a partnership with the Nonprofit Support Group (NSG), an organization dedicated to strengthening communities by empowering nonprofit organizations to meet their capacity needs. As a Standards for Excellence® replication partner, the Nonprofit Support Group will bring the full complement of Standards for Excellence® educational resources, expertise, and programming to the nonprofit organizations in Western New York and Monroe County, New York.
Amy Coates Madsen, Director of the Standards for Excellence Institute, states:
“Our partnership with the Nonprofit Support Group will allow a growing group of nonprofits and their leaders to enhance the ways that they manage and govern their organizations, ultimately creating stronger communities. NSG’s innovative approach to sharing this program with nine counties in Western New York through partners and intermediaries is exciting. We are thrilled to be working with NSG and we welcome NSG to the Standards for Excellence Institute family.”
Katie Pieri, Director of the Nonprofit Support Group, shares:
“The Nonprofit Support Group (NSG) is dedicated to strengthening communities across Western New York (WNY) and Monroe County by enhancing the capacity of local nonprofit organizations and the organizations that serve them. NSG is proud to partner with the Standards for Excellence to increase the resources available to achieve high ethical standards, transparency, and strong governance for our partners and nonprofit organizations.
As part of our commitment to making sure this content is widely available to all of our communities, NSG has partnered with 14 consultants and nonprofit organizations, who will serve as active facilitators and distributors of the Standards curricula across WNY and Monroe County. We believe that this content will help to build stronger nonprofits, more connected communities, and more robust support networks across the region.”
NSG’s partners convened earlier this month for an extensive training on the Standards for Excellence program tools, resources, and curricula, as well as the Standards for Excellence®: An Ethics and Accountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector. The code focuses on principles of honesty, integrity, fairness, respect, trust, responsibility, and accountability in nonprofit program operations, governance, human resources, financial management, and fundraising.
The Nonprofit Support Group has incorporated the Standards for Excellence® into their Impact HQ program, an online hub for capacity building support that aims to provide the necessary resources, tools, and information to help nonprofit organizations to succeed and is available to any nonprofit organization or nonprofit-serving consultant in Western New York. For more information about the Nonprofit Support Group, visit their website at thensg.org and the Impact HQ hub at impact-hq.org. For more information on the Standards for Excellence Institute®, contact Amy Coates Madsen, Director at 443-438-2314 or acmadsen@standardsforexcellence.org.
About the Standards for Excellence Institute®
The Standards for Excellence Institute® is a Maryland Nonprofits program that serves nonprofits throughout the nation. The Institute is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of ethics and accountability in nonprofit governance, management, and operations. It has fourteen state, regional and national partner organizations, and is supported by over 300 Licensed Consultants and 90 volunteers with professional experience in nonprofit governance and administration.
About Impact HQ and the Nonprofit Support Group
Impact HQ is a user-friendly capacity-building hub for nonprofit leaders to use to build their nonprofit. It has resources, tools, and information to help organizations get to the next level and more effectively move their missions forward. Impact HQ is free and accessible to any nonprofit organization or nonprofit-serving consultant in the nine counties of Western New York (WNY) – Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming.
Impact HQ is a project of the Nonprofit Support Group (NSG), in partnership with a network of nonprofit intermediary organizations. The mission of NSG is to support the introduction of, and connection to, innovative capacity-building supports for nonprofits in WNY. Its work is inspired and informed by the community. It serves as a partner, resource, and convener across the region.
