Eric Teicholz Sustainability Scholarship

The application for the 2026 IFMA Foundation Eric Teicholz Scholarship is open as of Monday, February 9. Click the following link to apply: https://apply.mykaleidoscope.com/program/Teicholz2026

Eric Teicholz Sustainability Scholarship

Founded through the generosity of IFMA Fellow Eric Teicholz and other sponsors, the Eric Teicholz Sustainability Scholarship provides free tuition for students and young professionals to earn their Sustainability Facility Professional® (SFP) credential as well as three years of free membership in IFMA and IFMA’s Sustainability Community.

Sustainability Facility Professional® (SFP)

IFMA’s SFP is an assessment-based certificate program delivering a specialty credential in sustainability. By earning the SFP credential, you will:

Earn a scholarship that covers the fees for the SFP credential.
Enjoy recognition and credibility for your expertise in sustainable FM practices
Influence your organization’s economic, environmental and social bottom lines
Maximize efficiencies and streamline operations to boost your triple bottom line: people, planet and profit
Learn to use knowledge-based, data-driven methods to drive decisions and develop valuable solutions.

Eligibility:

Students and young professionals (both within or outside of IFMA) currently studying or practicing facility management or related fields with a demonstrated interest in sustainability as it relates to the built environment

Selection Process

A committee of FM professionals will evaluate each application and score according to evaluation guidelines
Scores will be totaled, and the top applicants will be awarded the SFP scholarship
Diversity, financial need, youth, and potential impact of SFP on applicant/community are part of selection process
Scholarship award will cover all SFP Credential fees
Winners will be announced at World Workplace

If you are interested in learning more, please contact Brad Fuglsang at bradley.fuglsang@ifma.org. You can find the Scholarship Sponsorship Form below.

Eric Teicholz Sustainability Scholarship Sponsor Form

Eric Teicholz 2026 Scholarship

For the past six years, the Eric Teicholz Sustainable Facility Professional (ET SFP) scholarship has helped students and emerging facility professionals from over 40 countries earn IFMA’s SFP® credential. The SFP program equips recipients to employ sustainable initiatives to strengthen business outcomes, operational efficiencies and management procedures across the built environment. Sponsorship in the ET SFP program showcases your company’s global leadership while connecting your brand to a worldwide community advancing data-driven, high-impact facility management.

The ET SFP I-MAP is an interactive software product developed to integrate a variety of data sets related to the ET SFP scholarship. Users can access scholarship information as well as awardee data (bios, photos, case studies) and data about sustainability content within IFMA and IFMA’s components.

I-Map can be can be found at: https://prezi.com/p/embed/utSR2o5b45hpJNnkeD55?autoplay=true

2025 SPONSORS

Richard Gunpat

ERIC TEICHOLZ, IFMA FELLOW

Eric Teicholz is the ex-officio president and founder of Graphic Systems, Inc., a firm specializing in facility management and real estate automation consulting.

Fellow of the International Facility Management Association
Ex-officio chair of IFMAs Strategic Advisory Group, Sustainability Task Force and Sustainability Committees
Board member of IFMA’s ESUS sustainability community
IFMA Foundation’s Board of Trustees
IFMA’s Global Board of Directors
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) for the Federal Facilities Council at the National Academy of Sciences
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Integrated FM and Advanced Energy Projects Committees

Teicholz graduated with a Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University where he later became an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the university’s largest R+D facility, the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. While at Harvard, he was a Fellow on the IBM Donation and participated in numerous global projects for the Harvard Institute for International Development. He also is the author/editor of 17 books related to FM, CAFM/IWMS and GIS technology. Teicholz was awarded the Navy’s Superior Public Service Award by the Secretary of the Navy under President George W. Bush for his participation on a blue-ribbon FM panel defining the future strategy for naval shore facilities.