AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

Educational initiatives and public outreach. The asla fund is committed to advancing education, fostering inclusion, and promoting the transformative power of landscape architecture. In 2024, this commitment was reflected in a $190,000 national endowment for the humanities grant award for teaching environmental humanities through landscape architecture, a project designed to help k-12 educators integrate design and stewardship into classrooms. Although federal funding for the grant was later rescinded, the award highlighted the fund's leadership in linking landscape architecture and the humanities. The fund also hosted dream big with design: teacher's edition, a three-day event that brought eight elementary educators to the asla center in washington, d.c., where they gained tools and ideas to introduce landscape architecture concepts to students and inspire them to reimagine their schoolyards and communities.