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The Community Service Awards
The Community Service Awards recognize an individual landscape architect, group of landscape architects, landscape architecture firms, landscape architecture education programs, or ASLA Chapters that have provided sustained, pro bono service to the community, demonstrating sound principles or values of landscape architecture.
Submissions Due February 2, 2026
Nominations may be made by an ASLA professional member or an ASLA chapter. Nominations are to be kept confidential. Nominees should not be made aware of their nominations or asked to participate in the preparation of their nomination materials.
Firm or Group Eligibility: Service must be performed by a landscape architecture firm or group of landscape architects and must be provided pro bono.
Individual Eligibility: Service must be performed by an individual landscape architect and must be provided pro bono. Nominations are accepted only for individuals who are living when submitted. In the event a nominee passes away during the review process, their nomination will remain under consideration for posthumous recognition.
Frequency: One award is given annually, either to an organization or an individual.
Previous Recipients
- 2025 Coastal Dynamics Design Lab at NC State University
- 2025 Matthew Potteiger, ASLA
- 2024 Design Workshop Foundation
- 2023 Jim Donovan, FASLA
- 2022 Ebru Ozer
- 2021 Ernie (Ernest) Wong, FASLA
- 2020 Glen Dake, FASLA
- 2019 Kimberlee Douglas
- 2017 John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
- 2016 DesignJones, LLC
- 2016 Martin Barry, ASLA
- 2015 Randolph Hester Jr., FASLA
- 2014 William L. Flournoy Jr., FASLA
- 2013 Nicholas T. Dines, FASLA
- 2012 ASLA Potomac Chapter/ACE Mentor Program Legacy Project
- 2010 Achva Stein, FASLA
- 2009 Daniel Winterbottom, ASLA
- 2008 Peter Pollack, FASLA
- 2007 Frederick R. Steiner, FASLA
- 2006 Randal Scott Romie, ASLA
- 2005 Kevin Shanley, ASLA