Building professionals, planning and landscape professionals, healthcare practitioners, and others who are working to educate the public, implement evidence-based design, research, or otherwise advance awareness and implementation of standards, principles, or policies that improve human health and well-being through the built environment are eligible for this award.

Applicants for this award will either be organizations in the USGBC NCR region who are currently partners at the time of award submission (at at least the Community Partner level) or individuals in the USGBC NCR region who are active USGBC local community members at the time of submission.