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RFQs and Opportunities
Explore current RFQs, calls, and professional opportunities from ASLA and partner organizations, supporting practice growth, visibility, and engagement throughout the year.
Current Opportunities
Know Your Rights Webinar Series: Life in the Time of ICE
Date: 3/18/2026
Type: Event
Location: Zoom
Description:
Be Prepared - Be an Advocate - Learn - Take Action
At a time when we see human rights being trampled upon, community care becomes a political act. Immigrant America is a living and dignified part of our community whose rights must be advocated for and protected. This year we started a collaboration between El Merequetengue (network of Latin American landscape architects and designers), Illinois, New York Upstate, and Northern California ASLA chapters, TERREMOTO, TOPOPHYLA Landscape Architecture, and CROW landscapes, to learn about rights of the immigrant community, build acknowledgment, share resources, and support each other in times of fear and uncertainty.
The collaboration quickly grew and flourished in the planning of a series of webinars called “Life in the time of ICE." We turned our emotions (anger, frustration, insecurity, and desire to be proactive) into action. These webinars are a collective work formed in solidarity between a union of affiliate groups, ASLA regional chapters, and landscape architecture firms all interested in knowing how to navigate the attacks on the immigrant community.
The intention of the webinar series is to offer the landscape architecture community key information, resources and opportunities to take action. The series includes four parts:
- Be prepared: General overview of what’s happening, your legal rights, trends, tactics, how to create a workplace or individual plan.
- Be an advocate: Ways to build acknowledgment, do what you can do, and share experiences and resources.
- Learn: Know your rights with a lawyer from ACLU.
- Take Action: Apply what you have learned, put knowledge in practice (role play session), and share experiences of how we have put everything into practice.
Third webinar: March 18
Fourth webinar: coming soon
We invite you to join us, learn more about how to support the immigrant community and continue the conversation.
Charles E. Beveridge Research Grant Call for Entries
Deadline: 4/1/2026
Type: Grant
Location: Remote or in person; visiting archives in person in Brookline, MA is optional
Description:
Charles E. Beveridge Research Grant Call for Entries
Application Deadline: April 1, 2026
Notification of Award: May 1, 2026
Research Summary: June 1, 2027
Grant(s) up to $3,000 will be awarded.
This grant supports research utilizing the Olmsted Archives at Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site; many of those materials and related source material at the Library of Congress are available online. All candidates should have a project that broadens our understanding of the Olmsted legacy at the national, state, regional or municipal level. Projects addressing any aspect of the Olmsted firms' work or their contributions to the pedagogy and professional practice of landscape architecture and planning may also be appropriate. A short report or presentation summarizing the research is also required. The awardee will be selected based on the proposal's originality and the extent to which the research utilizes resources in the Olmsted Archives and other repositories. Past recipients have explored diverse topics related to individual projects, thematic categories, international influences, and the development of landscape architecture in academia. Beveridge Research Grants are sponsored by Friends of Fairsted, the philanthropic partner of Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. These grants honor Charles E. Beveridge, PhD, preeminent Olmsted scholar and series editor of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Practice Awards
Deadline: 4/10/2026
Type: Competition / Award
Description:
Best of Practice is an award that honors the firms and businesses that are thoughtfully shaping the built environment in North America.
What makes a firm worthy of recognition? AN’s jury of esteemed practitioners and educators will examine offices with an eye towards three criteria: design, culture, and social impact. Design considers the company’s portfolio and evaluates the level of quality present in projects. Culture considers the internal experience and operations that can best support their employees and create an office culture that prizes advancement, achievement, and diversity. Finally, social impact looks at how companies engage with its community to envision and enact a better world.
Waterfront Development Opportunity 6-Acre Downtown Site
Deadline: 4/30/2026
Type: RFPs / RFQs
Location(s): Portsmouth, Virginia
Description:
The City of Portsmouth Economic Development Authority is pleased to issue this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for redevelopment of the approximately 6-acre Crawford Bay Site in Portsmouth, VA. This prime downtown waterfront site in the booming Hampton Roads region boasts views of the Norfolk skyline and Portsmouth's historic working waterway and offers immediate access to the Elizabeth River Ferry system. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a landmark destination for the region, that builds upon the City’s significant economic momentum.
We are seeking responses from qualified development teams with experience developing mixed-use destinations in prime locations. This effort will require a development partner with sound financials and a track record of delivering complex projects.
To download the RFQ, please visit our project webpage.
Graham Foundation Grants
Deadline for Grants to Individuals: September 2026
Deadline for Grants to Organizations: 2/25/2026
Description:
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.
This program supports innovative, thought-provoking investigations in architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and related fields of inquiry.
Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership
Deadline: September 15
Type: Fellowship
Description:
The LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership was established to foster transformational leadership capacity and drive positive change beyond the traditional scope of landscape architecture practice.
The $25,000 fellowship is an opportunity for landscape architecture professionals to dedicate the equivalent of 3 months’ time over the course of one year to nurture emerging ideas and to think deeply. It is designed as a time to reflect, research, explore, create, test, and develop ideas into action.
LAF selects a six-member cohort of Fellows and recent LAF Olmsted Scholars for the LAF Fellowship through a competitive application process based on a proposed project. Selected Fellows receive a $25,000 financial award and participate in three 2.5-day residencies over the course of a year, as well as monthly conference calls. Their projects must demonstrate the potential to bring about impactful change to the environment and humanity and have the capacity to grow the leadership potential of landscape architects.
Rome Prize Fellowships
Deadline: November
Type: Fellowship
Location: Rome, Italy
Description:
For over one hundred thirty years, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the Rome Prize is given to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence.
Landscape Architecture Foundation Deb Mitchell Research Grant
Deadline: December
Type: Grant
Description:
The LAF Research Grant in Honor of Deb Mitchell supports research projects that are relevant and impactful for the professional practice of landscape architecture.
Each year, one $25,000 grant will be awarded to support a research project that can be completed in a 12- to 18-month period. The research must generate knowledge and insights relevant to the practice of design in order to increase landscape architecture’s capacity and impact.
The Principal Investigator must be trained as a landscape architect and currently engaged in the field of landscape architecture as a researcher, educator, professional practitioner, or in some other capacity. Preference is given to research teams that represent partnerships between professional practice and academic/research institutions.
Lighter. Faster. Stronger. Stainless Steel Rooftop Aquatics
Date: 7/18/2024 - 7/31/2026
Type: Other
LA CES approved?: Yes
Location(s): US
Description:
Lunch and Learn Opportunity
Eligible for 1 AIA HSW, 1 GBCI, 1 LACES HSW PDH, 1 RCEP
The one-hour course will summarize the design, manufacturing, and installation process for welded stainless steel swimming pools, spas, and water features. It will further outline the benefits of specifying this pre-fabricated system for elevated and rooftop installations including enhanced sustainability, streamlined installation, and reduced liability with a watertight vessel.
Learning Objectives
By completing this course, the design professional will be able to:
- Explain why stainless steel aquatics offer a sustainable, long-term solution
- Define why prefabricated aquatics streamline the onsite construction process
- Describe the manufacturing steps that ensure a watertight stainless pool or spa
- List six benefits of using welded stainless steel vessels for swimming pools, spas, and water features, especially in elevated locations
Please contact Meg Taiclet at [email protected] to schedule a date.