• Guiding Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence in Maine
  This document provides a planning and assessment framework for nonprofits. It should offer a basis for each organization (board, staff and other constituents) to make a conscious assessment and determination of what will best move them forward.
  
  
• Basic Infrastructure Checklist
  This resource serves as a desk-top reference for accountability, providing a framework of nonprofit legal requirements as well as recommended practices outline in the Guiding Principles and Practices.

• Awards Application Information
  This document provides the requirements, timeline and instructions necessary to complete the 2008 Dirigo Awards for Nonprofit Excellence application. Careful reading of this document is essential to a successful application.

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