The objectives of the Leon and Thea Koerner Award are to:
- create social benefit through professional arts-based activity
- achieve significant individual or community impact
- create ongoing, perpetual benefits to BC communities
- support innovation, excellence and social transformation
- continue the legacy of Leon and Thea Koerner as philanthropists in BC
- honour the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation’s sixty years of continuous grant making in the areas of arts and social services in BC