B’nai B’rith Housing and B’nai B’rith International will present the 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award to Pam Goodman, president of Boston-based Beacon Communities Development LLC, at an annual awards dinner tonight.

Goodman oversees operations at Beacon Communities Development and supervises transactions from initial conception through rent-up and occupancy. She is a former member of the board of directors of B’nai B’rith Housing, which produces nonsectarian housing, both affordable and mixed-income, in communities in and around Greater Boston.

While at Beacon Communities Development, Goodman has been responsible for construction or rehabilitation of more than 4,000 rental apartments and 200 for-sale units in more than 70 communities in New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland.

"Beacon Communities Development has achieved great things under Pam’s stewardship," Susan Gittelman, executive director of B’nai B’rith Housing, said in a statement. "As we put the finishing touches on our newest project in Sudbury, I’m grateful that we have leaders like Pam within our organization to guide our successes. Her commitment to building a more equitable society and her ongoing support and wise counsel are so valuable to B’nai B’rith Housing and to our entire community."

Goodman served as an elected official on the board of the Brookline Housing Authority for 15 years. She is also co-chair of the Housing Committee of Hebrew Senior Life, a nonprofit housing and health care provider and research center that is an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School.

She was previously a senior real estate professional at the law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., and is a former board member of Arc of Greater Boston and former member of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Disabilities Housing Implementation Advisory Committee.