ASLA Fund

Make a one-time donation to the ASLA Fund. 

Your single gift provides immediate resources for critical ASLA Fund programs, directly supporting initiatives that shape a healthier future. 

Every donation, regardless of size, makes a tangible difference today.

Become a Founders Club member and make a lasting impact with your recurring donation. Your ongoing commitment ensures the ASLA Fund can consistently invest in global, social, and environmental change through the art and science of landscape architecture. Join with monthly, quarterly, or annual gifts to provide vital, sustained support.

Benefits of the Founders Club:

• The knowledge that your donation was put to work immediately.
• Newsletters on the difference your dollars are making.
• Hassle-free automatic donations from your credit card.
• The ability to change or suspend your donations at any time.
• Complete statements provided for tax purposes.
• The joy of knowing you’re improving the health of people and the planet.

Empower the Next Generation: Support Career Discovery & Diversity in Landscape Architecture

ASLA’s Career Discovery & Diversity program is dedicated to inspiring K–12 students to explore landscape architecture through immersive, STEM-focused experiences. These include partnerships with schools, hands-on activities, classroom programs, and access to free resources backed by ASLA chapters nationwide.

Why It Matters

• • Opens creative STEM pathways through programs like DREAM BIG with Design, The Roof is Growing!, and the Future City Competition.

  • Provides educators with curriculum tools like YOUR LAND Magazine, lesson plans, activity books, and engaging PowerPoints—all free for classroom use. 

  • Enables active engagement: ASLA members visit schools, lead design workshops, mentor youth, and build learning hubs—directly reaching students and their communities.

Your donation helps:

• • Print and distribute educational materials (activity books, magazines, tools) at no charge to teachers and students.

  • Sponsor ASLA chapter outreach events.

  • Support mentoring and judging roles in national competitions like the Future City program, as well as educator webinars and career expos.

  • Expand access and ensure that diverse, inclusive voices are represented in landscape architecture outreach efforts.

By supporting Career Discovery & Diversity, you help spark creativity, nurture design thinking, and open STEM career opportunities for youth from all backgrounds.

Let’s cultivate the next generation of landscape architects—innovators who will shape sustainable, beautiful, equitable spaces.

"Our new plan represents a major shift. We know that the problems and solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises are intertwined. So, we have developed an ambitious plan for addressing both crises – through landscape architecture," said ASLA Immediate Past President Kona Gray, FASLA, PLA.

ASLA has developed Landscape Architecture 2040: Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan.

The new plan was developed by a high-profile Task Force of five landscape architects, chaired by Meg Calkins, FASLA, professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning at North Carolina State University. The task force worked with a 34-member Advisory Group of climate and biodiversity experts.

The plan outlines a bold vision. By 2040, all landscape architecture projects will simultaneously:

• • Achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions and double carbon sequestration from business as usual.
  • Protect, conserve, restore, enhance, and manage biodiversity.
  • Provide significant economic benefits in the form of measurable ecosystem services, co-benefits, and livelihoods.
  • Address climate and biodiversity injustices, amplify the power of communities, and increase the equitable distribution of climate and biodiversity investments.

The new plan is designed to act as a resource and guide the climate and biodiversity work of landscape architecture firms and organizations of all sizes. It will also direct all ASLA climate and biodiversity programs and investments from 2026 to 2030.

Learn more at: asla.org/climate-biodiversity.

Your donation will help support:

• • Implementation of the new plan, including the creation of new practice resources for landscape architects
  • Development of a new Climate & Biodiversity Commitment Program for landscape architects
  • New research that builds the evidence for landscape architecture solutions
  • Educational tracks and offset programs at the ASLA Conference
  • ASLA's participation in national and international climate and biodiversity platforms

ASLA's current Licensure Advancement Program provides 30 people from the first three cohorts with a two-year, personalized experience that includes approximately $3,500 to cover the cost of the four sections of the Landscape Architectural Registration Exam (LARE), along with exam preparation courses, resources, and mentorship from a licensed landscape architect.

For the program to continue beyond 2025, we need to raise $35,000 a year to cover the costs for 10 women to participate in the two-year program.

Thank you to the following generous donors that allowed us to launch this program in 2022—Wendy Miller, FASLA, PLA, and James Barefoot; Marq Truscott, FASLA, PLA; Rachel Ragatz Truscott, ASLA; and CLARB.