Planning Foundation

The Planning Foundation of APA

Our Mission
The Planning Foundation of APA funds philanthropic activities that the American Planning Association has supported for years — scholarships and community equity programs — and new initiatives like special research projects and creative ways to "tell the planning story" to an expanded audience. It is an independent 501(c)(3) subsidiary of APA with its own seven-member governing board.

APA Planning Foundation offers New Orleans Scholarships

Four scholarships will be awarded again this year by the Planning Foundation of APA, so that planning students can contribute to the recovery effort in New Orleans, through internships in the New Orleans Office of Recovery Management.

Last year, APA provided four $2,500 stipdends for planning student interns to work in Ed Blakely's Office of Recovery Management (ORM) in New Orleans. The program continues this year.

The internship is 8 weeks in duration. The start and end dates are flexible, based on students' needs and schedules. The type of planning work and projects carried out will vary, based on local circumstances and needs. Last year, students reported a very positive experience with the work and projects they participated in during the internships.

While in New Orleans, students will need to find their own housing, although ORM staff have been helpful in pointing those selected in the right direction to find temporary housing.

Last year, APA's Foundation invited students who went to New Orleans to write an essay about their experiences. Two of those essays by Sean Almonte and Angela Trinh are online.

Eligibility
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate planning program.

Application Requirements
To apply, send a resume, cover letter and 2-3 references to the attention of Mike Welch, at the address below or e-mail to getinvolved@planning.org. The deadline is June 30.

Mike Welch
ATTN: New Orleans Scholarships
Director of Leadership and Component Services American Planning Association
122 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 1600
Chicago, IL 60603

If you have any questions, please contact getinvolved@planning.org.

Post-Hurricane Planning Efforts
Consider a gift that will be used exclusively to support the continuing planning efforts that are supported by APA and our chapters in Louisiana and Mississippi. The pro bono efforts of members continue to require financial support.

Click here for full details on how Foundation funds support Gulf Coast planning efforts

The Judith McManus Price Scholarship Fund
The Judith McManus Price Scholarship for Women and Minorities in Planning was established in the fall of 2002 through the generosity of her husband and children. Judith Price was an exceptional planner who served as Chief Urban Planner in the Land Use and Transportation Planning Division in El Paso before assuming the position of Director of Planning for Dona Ana County, New Mexico. The scholarship fund was established to encourage women and minorities to enter the field of planning, and to assist undergraduate and graduate students pursuing planning degrees who have demonstrated a genuine financial need.

Click here to learn more about Judith McManus Price and the scholarship fund established in her memory.

Education
The Planning Foundation generously supported a new reference book co-published by APA Planners Press and John Wiley & Sons, Planning and Urban Design Standards, which is the definitive guide to principles and techniques used by planners, designers, and their partners in community building. The Bettman Symposium, a well-attended fixture at APA’s annual National Planning Conference, is also supported by the Foundation.

Students
The Foundation supports students in a variety of ways. Some examples: scholarships assist student financing, make it possible for students to join APA study tours, and enable students to work at paid internships in places like post-Katrina New Orleans.

Why We Need Your Donations
Planners reacting with optimism to the uncertainty of the future can help our nation become stronger and safer. With your support, the Planning Foundation and the Judith McManus Price Scholarship Fund will help planners do more to rebuild and improve communities, reach out to nonplanners, and ensure opportunities for the planning leaders of tomorrow.

By donating, you will set an example for fellow planners and do much to assure our profession's continued positive national influence. Some of the individuals and organizations that have already given generously to the Foundation are listed below.

How to Make a Donation

Click here to make a donation online

Click here to download the donation form

Foundation Donors

Rudayna T. Abdo, AICP
Michael Abend
Anonymous
Andres Alayon
Deene Alongi
Michael A. Alspaugh, AICP
Merle Anderson, AICP
Richard T. Anderson, FAICP
Ernesto Arias
Mathew J. Armstrong
Grieg F. Asher, AICP
Sabaa Atteyih

Jennafer Rose Badillo
John A. Balon, AICP
Hari Baral
Justin Barber, AICP
Michael Bather
Daniel Baudouin, AICP
Paul Baumgardt
Mark Beisse
Christopher C. Benninger
Karin M. Berg
Paul Bergmann, FAICP
F. Robert Bielski, AICP
Graham S. Billingsley, AICP
Eugenie Ladner Birch, FAICP
Maria O. Blachut, AICP
Alan Black, FAICP
Roger Blevins, AICP
Philip Block, AICP
Glenn Blossom, AICP
Denise Scott Brown
Nancy Brown, AICP
Paul Brown, AICP
Thomas M. Brown
David C. Brownlee, AICP
Donald C. Burns, AICP
John Burrie

Dennis Cannon
John G. Cannon, AICP
Thomas Allen Cannon, Jr., AICP
Charles Carmalt, AICP
Kelly Carpenter, AICP
Donald R. Carroll
Mark Cassel, AICP
June Catalano, AICP
Bernard Cedar
Cynthia Cheski
Alexander Christoforidis, AICP
Leeland J. Cole-Chu
Fred Collignon, FAICP
Robert Collins, AICP
Yvonne P. Conatser, AICP
Sally H. Cooper, AICP
Thomas Covert, AICP
Stephen Crow

Thomas J. Dabareiner, AICP
Constance V. Daniels, AICP
Edward F. Davis, AICP
Charles Deknatel, AICP
Dallas Dollase, AICP
Wilmer C. Dutton, Jr., FAICP

Claire Early
Emre Edev
Jean E. Eisberg
Mark Eldridge, AICP
Marissa K. Ellis Plouin
David Elms, AICP
Manuel S. Emanuel, AICP
Elaine Emling, AICP
John W. Epling, FAICP
Donald K. Erickson, AICP
Kathleen M Ervin
Stephen S. Evanusa
Robert A. Eveleigh

Mary Fagans
W. Paul Farmer, FAICP
Amy Fauria
Carmela M. Federico
Clyde W. Forrest, FAICP
Marcia Fowle
Fredrick G. Fox, AICP
Elmer Fredd
Robert E. Freeman, AICP
David Fuller, AICP
Allison I. Fultz
Wynne Furth

Marlin Gabbert, AICP
Joanne Garnett, AICP
Laurence C. Gerckens, AICP
Hartmut Gerdes, AICP
David Gilmour, AICP
Yashiba Glenn
Henry Goodhue
Gustavo N. Gonzalez
La Toya Grate
Adam Grob
Dean Gunderson

Kelly G. Hall, AICP
Terrance L. Harrington, AICP
Dennis Healy, AICP
Arthur E. Henriques
Christine Hillary
Jesus H. Hinojosa, FAICP
John Hirten, AICP
Stanley R. Hoffman, FAICP
Timothy Holland, AICP
Larry J. Hopper
Julie Hoover, AICP
Frank Hotchkiss, AICP
Janet Hubbell, AICP
Robert P. Huefner, AICP
Ken M. Hughes, AICP
Brian Humphress, AICP
Robert Hunter, FAICP
Lincoln Hurlbut

Robert L. Isaacson, Jr., AICP

Lynnis E. Jameson, AICP
Thomas H. Jensen
Kenneth Johnson
Donald Jones
Randolph Jones, AICP
Susan E. Jones, AICP

Murray P. Kaplan, AICP
Eric Damian Kelly, FAICP
Robin Jill Kemper
James B. Kennedy, AICP
Steven Kim
Russell Knetzger, AICP
Natasha F. Knight
Cynthia Kroll
Norman Krumholz, AICP
Robert W. Kunzman

Niels La Cour
Jeffrey J. Lambert, AICP
Pamela A. Lazaris, AICP
Carla L. Lerman, AICP
Gene Lewis
Sylvia Lewis
Morris A. Lifshay, AICP
Peter Lowitt, AICP
Frederick E. Lutt, AICP
Ira C. Lynch

Richard Machtay
Howard R. Maier, FAICP
Carrie Makarewicz
Madan S. Malik, AICP
Lawrence D. Mann, FAICP
Debra March
Laurie Marston, AICP
William K. Martin
Richard R. May, FAICP
William K. McAllister, AICP
Michael D. McAnelly, FAICP
Marion Andrus McCollam, AICP
Penny McCook, AICP
Mike McCormick, FAICP
John McKenna
Elizabeth McKenzie, AICP
Deborah Rae Meihoff, AICP
Nan Merritt, AICP
Richard Mertens, AICP
Christopher D. Michell
Justin Milam
Gene Milgram
Kenji Mitsui
Sarah More, AICP
Nate Mow
Louis B. Muhly, FAICP
Nornan Murdoch, FAICP
William A. Myers, AICP

Marguerite Jean Nabeta, AICP
Kei Nagao
Sakura Namioka, AICP

Donald R. Odell, AICP

Hwi Joon Park, AICP
Ki Suh Park, FAICP
Robert H. Paslay, AICP
Shirley S. Passow, AICP
Johanna M. Patri, AICP
Robert Patton, AICP
Mary Kay Peck, AICP
Michael A. Peoni, AICP
Ann R. Perrotta, AICP
Jean L. Peterman
Denis Potiris, AICP
Steven A. Preston, AICP
Emory J. Price, AICP
Thomas J. Price
Price Howlett, Inc.

Helen Ramirez, AICP
Carol A. Rhea, AICP
Rhea Consulting, Inc.
Jose R. Rivas
Anna Rondon
Charles S. Rotenberg, AICP
Donald N. Rothblatt, FAICP

Tracy Sato, AICP
Gary Schoennauer, FAICP
James H. Schroeder
Sue Schwartz, FAICP
Paul H. Sedway, FAICP
Boris F. Sevcik, AICP
Sumner Sharpe, FAICP
Ronald Short, FAICP
Mitchell J. Silver, AICP
Kenneth H. Simmons, AICP
Eric P. Simundza
James L. Skinner, AICP
Stanley Spears, AICP
Lisa Spratt, AICP
Susan Stoddard, FAICP, InfoUse
Colleen M. Stoetzel, AICP
Robert Sturdivant, FAICP
Sharon Swanson, AICP
Carol and Ray Swayne
Ken Sweeney, AICP

Jeremy Tennant
John A. Thayer, Jr., AICP
Bradley E. Thompson, AICP
Marion J. Thompson, AICP
Sambamurthy Thyagarajan, AICP
Carolyn Torma
Alicia Torregrosa
Tim R. Trohimovich, AICP
Carolyn Turek
Arthur Tuttle, AICP

Deborah Ungo-McCormick, AICP

Paul Van Buskirk, AICP
Richard F. Veazey, AICP
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.
Charles View, AICP

Roger Wagoner, FAICP
Amy Walbridge, AICP
Matthew Walls
Randy Walter, AICP, PLACES Consulting Services, Inc.
Xiaoxiao Wang
Veda E. Ward
Bob L. Wegner, Sr., FAICP
Michael Weil, AICP
Stacey L. Weisner
Dr. Shirley Weiss, AICP
Mike Welch
Sara Jane White, AICP
Kevin D. Wilhite, AICP
Clark M. Williams
Sager A. Williams, Jr.
Ralph Willmer, AICP
Arlis M. Withers
Michael A. Wozniak, AICP
Janice M. Woodcock, AICP
David W. Woods, AICP
John E. Woodward, Jr., AICP
Mark Wyckoff, FAICP

Panayotis Xanthopoulos

Bruce Yoder, FAICP
C. Kimi Mikami Yuen
Marie York, AICP

John J. Zeugner, IV, AICP
Paul Zucker, FAICP

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