2024 ASFPM Awards: Call for Nominations

We are now accepting nominations for the 2024 ASFPM Awards. These annual awards recognize the outstanding contributions made by individuals, agencies, and organizations to keep communities safe from flood loss, promote resiliency, and advance the association’s mission. Winners will be honored at the 2024 ASFPM Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The deadline is Feb. 2, 2024.  

Submit your award nominations here: ASFPM Awards Nomination Form
For the Outstanding Chapter nomination, use this form
 
AWARD CATEGORIES 
Tom Lee State Award for Excellence is given annually to recognize an outstanding floodplain management program or activity at the state level. 

James Lee Witt Local Award for Excellence recognizes outstanding local programs or activities at the front lines of floodplain management. Eligible entries include local units of government such as cities, towns and counties. 

Larry R. Johnston Local Floodplain Manager of the Year Award honors outstanding individual efforts and contributions at the local level. It recognizes an individual responsible for the development of a distinguished local program or activity.

John R. Sheaffer Award for Excellence in Floodproofing is presented for completed work that exhibits the incorporation of accepted procedures, practices and constraints of flood proofing, or promotes the field or knowledge of flood proofing by enhancing the awareness and use of new procedures, methods, designs and/or products. Individuals, private organizations or governmental units and agencies are eligible.

Outreach/Media Award acknowledges efforts of media to increase information and/or awareness of flood issues with the general public. It is also open to an individual, agency, or organization for exceptional outreach efforts.

John Ivey Award for Superior Efforts in Certification recognizes exceptional efforts to promote the professional certification of floodplain managers. 

Larry Larson Meritorious Lifetime Achievement in Floodplain Management Award recognizes individuals who, throughout their career, have achieved success in a significant aspect of floodplain management. These efforts include policy, outreach, implementation, education, government, research, litigation or other actions that demonstrate the advancement of flood loss and risk reduction within the nominee’s professional realm. 

Margaret A. Davidson Award for Excellence in Climate Change Adaptation was first awarded in 2023. Recipients should reflect her commitment to address complex environmental challenges, engage diverse communities, increase resilience among underserved populations, advance floodplain policy through broad partnerships, and advocate for more women and people of color in the floodplain management profession.

Outstanding Chapter Award recognizes an ASFPM chapter for exemplary practices and activities that deserve national recognition. It acknowledges distinguished works by a chapter in going above and beyond its mission in a way that can be shared and replicated by other ASFPM chapters.

Goddard-White Award is given to individuals who have had a national impact carrying forward the goals and objectives of floodplain management. It is ASFPM’s highest award.

Jerry Louthain Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals who, through their long-term efforts, have supported and advanced the work of the association. 
 
For more detailed descriptions of the award categories and previous winners, visit the ASFPM Awards page.