Principles & Practices for Nonprofit Excellence

Principles & Practices for Nonprofit Excellence is based on the fundamental values of quality, responsibility, and accountability. This document has three purposes:

• To provide individual organizations striving for excellence -- and the board and staff members who lead them -- with a tool for strengthening their governance, management, and operations;
• To support the growth and quality of the nonprofit sector; and
• To promote stewardship by individual nonprofits and the sector as a whole.

Nonprofit organizations are essential to the vitality of communities. They enrich quality of life, epitomize the highest societal values, and strengthen our democracy. Volunteers, board members, and employees become involved with a nonprofit because of the organization’s public benefit mission. Therefore, the continued success of North Carolina’s nonprofit organizations requires broad public support and confidence. This document publicly testifies to the nonprofit sector’s commitment for excellence.