Total Quality Research Foundation (TQRF) Canada

Mission

The foundation’s mission is to be a leader in helping Canadian organizations of all kinds to improve their performance and achieve world-class excellence in all its products and services.

Objectives

The objectivesof the foundation, in brief, are:

(1) To promote the understanding of business excellence through quality improvement in products and services of all Canadian organizations, big or small, public or private, profit or not-for-profit;

(2) To develop reports and other products and services which appeal to all organizations to assist in their understanding and development of business excellence fundamentals;

(3) To produce educational materials on quality philosophies, tools, techniques and methods along with case studies, success stories and so on to help develop and promote models of quality improvement suitable for specific business sectors;

(4) To exert positive influence on policy and decision makers at the local, national and international levels to help improvements in all sectors of global economy and general human prosperity;

(5) To arrange, provide for or join in arranging and providing for lectures, meetings, discussions, conferences, and educational courses on subjects of general and special interest in the field of quality and business excellence and to organize and publicize exhibitions and to promote and conduct any other educational activities (whether in Canada or elsewhere) in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the foundation;

(6) To prepare, publish or arrange for the publication of books, journals, periodicals, pamphlets, brochures, bulletins, and other publications and to provide for their distribution;

(7) To promote, establish, maintain, and support or assist in the promotion, establishment, or maintenance of bodies, associations, institutions, schemes, trusts and funds having objectives similar to those of the foundation;

(8) To cooperate with other national or international organizations having similar goals and objectives as those of the foundation; and

(9) To solicit funds, grants and gifts or money and other property by way of addition to the funds of the foundation to carry out its objectives.