Eric Teicholz Sustainability Scholarship

IFMA Fellow Eric Teicholz and the IFMA Foundation established the Eric Teicholz Sustainability Facility Professional (ET SFP) Scholarship in May 2020. The scholarship is open to young professionals with a demonstrated financial need who are currently practicing facility management (FM) or a related field and are interested in earning a specialty credential in sustainability. Additional criteria to be considered in the selection of candidates for scholarships include diversity and the impact the scholarship is expected to have on the applicants and their environments.

The ET SFP program was expanded in 2021 to include additional scholarships provided by the development of a corporate sponsor program. Current corporate sponsors include JLL, SDI, Planon, Jumbo Chains, Nuvolo plus three IFMA chapters (San Fernando Valley, Kansas City and South Florida). Nuvolo, a cloud-based Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software provider, is our newest 2023 partner. Since its inception, the program has grown over 450%. With corporate sponsors, the ET SFP program was able to establish two new scholarships, one focused on technology and the other related to supply chains. Current future plans for 2023 include the establishment of several social media platforms – starting with Whatsapp, to be followed by Engage and then LinkedIn.

  1. Whatsapp – for internal communication between ETSFP awardees
    • Target audience:internal communication related to awardee interests
    • Purpose: quick votes announcements, reminders, etc.
  2. Engage – for interaction and engagement with all IFMA members
    • Target audience: for awardees and the ESUS/IFMA communities and sponsors related to the scholarship and related sustainability issues
    • Purpose: for SFP/sustainability interaction between IFMA member platforms
  3. LinkedIn –  to used as a plaform for sharing ETSFP data with global community
    • Target audience: initially for the ESUS community and awardees (1st stage) then with other IFMA sustainability groups and sponsors (2nd stage), then open to the public (3rd stage)
    • Purpose: to exchange and share information related to ET SFP and IFMA sustainability initiatives with the global community

ET SFP scholarships are awarded either by the sponsor or by an evaluation team currently consisting of the following individuals:

Angela Johnson Culver
PE, PMP, FMP, CPE
Vice President of IFM Operational Support
ABM Industriesm Macon
GA, USA
arjuculver.pe@gmail.com

Eric Teicholz –
IFMA Fellow
President
Graphic Systems Inc
Lexingtion MA
teicholz@graphicsystems.biz

Erik Jaspers
IFMA Fellow
Global Product Strategy & Innovation,
Planon International B.V.
Gelderland Netherlands,
erik.jaspers@planonsoftware.com

Jenny Yeung
CFM, MRICS, MSOE, CEnv,
Past Director
IFMA Global Board, Past Chair
IFMA Asian Board, Past President
IFMA Hong Kong

John McGee 
IFMA Fellow
Past IFMA Chair
ESUS Board member
Alpharetta GA
jmcgee.ifma@gmail.com

Mark Mobach 
PhD
Professor Facility Management
Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Groningen the Netherlands
m.p.mobach@pl.hanze.nl

Richard Gunpat 
FMP, SFP, CFM, ProFM, LEED AP BD+C, PMP, PMI-ACP, EDGE Expert
Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
richard.gunpat@gmail.com

Sheila Sheridan 
IFMA Fellow, RCFM
Past IFMA Chair
La Selva Beach, CA
sheilasheridan@comcast.net

Shantel Woods 
FMP
Division Manager, City of Houston – Houston Airport System
Houston TX
Shantel.Woods@houstontx.gov

Debra Yorkman
Vice President
Marketing
Bristol PA
Debra.Yorkman@sdi.com

Paul Head 
Director
Public Sector
Wellesley, MA
paul.head@nuvolo.com

Additional information about the scholarship can be found here. The application deadline for 2023 is July 10, 2023, and can be found here.

Please contact Eric Teicholz (teicholz@graphicsystems.biz) if you have questions about the scholarship or an interest in learning more about the partner program.

BIO OF ERIC TEICHOLZ, IFMA FELLOW

Teicholz received his education from Union College, the University of Paris and Harvard University. At Harvard, he was a Fellow of the IBM Donation, received a M. Architecture degree, taught architecture and computer graphics courses at the Graduate School of Design as an Associate Professor, became an Associate Director of Harvard’s largest research facility, the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis and a member of Harvard’s Institute of International Development. Teicholz left Harvard in 1981 to establish Graphic Systems, Inc., an independent technology company focusing on all aspects of facility management. Teicholz is the author/editor of 17 books and hundreds of articles primarily related to architecture, facility management and GIS technology. At IFMA, Teicholz established and chaired the Sustainability Task Force, the Sustainability Committee and ESUS. He served as Trustee for the IFMA Foundation and as a Board Member for the Global Board of Directors.