Winners Announced! One of Australia's best known advocates, Stephen Mayne, has joined sex worker advocacy organisation Project Respect and outspoken animal protection group Animals Australia as the winners of the 2011 Kookaburra Awards. Read more by clicking here.
The three winners will be honoured at a celebration function to be held in Melbourne in February, while all 230 nominees will be recognised in a tribute booklet to be distributed free of charge from the start of next year.
All nominees will soon receive a certificate honouring their position as a 2011 Kookaburra nominee.
The 2011 Kookaburra Awards are currently closed.
Winners will be notified in early November and a public announcement later mid-November.
All nominees will be sent a certificate acknowledging their nomination as a 2011 Kookaburra, while a selection of entries will be profiled in an upcoming publication, due to be released in February 2012.
All nominees will be listed in the book (and those organisations, individuals and projects featured in the book will be notified sometime during November/December 2011).
Somebody has to bring change. Someone, or some thing, has to make us change.
At times, we might think of these people as ratbags, or cranks, or stirrers, or worse. We call them or their organisations radical, or subversive, or infuriatingly single-minded. We look at what they're doing and dismiss it as pointless, or an unnecessary distraction from the real issues, or just a stunt.
But they made a difference in the world.
The 2011 Kookaburra Awards will offer prizes to individuals and organisations and projects that really make a difference - that stretch people's vision of what's possible in Australian society today.
We don't have strict rules around the scale of their endeavours, or the geography, or even whether they won the battle this time round. We want to know that they fought the good fight, that they told truth to power, and that what they have done will carry on.
In 2011 we will again be awarding three prizes - for extraordinary individuals, for groundbreaking projects, and for game-changing community/not-for-profit organisations.
The Individual Category is for a person working for or through or in collaboration with an Australian community organisation (we're not looking for an isolated thinker, but a guide and a leader) to change the community for the better. It's not about being a saint, or a guru, or a great philanthropist: it's about being someone who can bring ordinary people along with a movement to change their lives, and ours.
The Community Group Category is for an Australian community organisation - that is, a not-for-profit organisations (incorporated or unincorporated), society, club or group. It's not about being the biggest, or the best resourced, or the highest-profile group, it's about being a group that does what it does brilliantly - and one that stands out as a beacon of innovative community leadership and works to change things for the better.
The Project Category is for a project done by a community group, a business, a school, a local government authority - anyone or any body - that has changed the community for the better. It's not about having a project that brought in a large grant, or came in below budget. We're looking for projects that have changed people's lives; that make people say "Gosh, I didn't know you could do that!"
You can nominate yourself or your own group or project, or be nominated by others for a Kookaburra Award. If you're nominating another group, project or individual, we do ask that you give us their contact details so we can contact them if we need to.
For your nominee to be eligible for a 2011 Community Kookaburra Award you need to return your entry to Our Community by 5pm on Friday, 26 August 2011.
The prizewinners will be announced in November.
PRIZES:
Each winner of the 2011 Kookaburra Awards - the individual, the community group and the project - will receive a total prize package valued at more than $10,000.
The prize package includes a selection of Our Community books and newsletters, Communities in Control DVDs and training - a total prize package valued at more than $7000 - plus a $3000 cash prize, thanks to Westpac.
All eligible nominees will receive a certificate acknowledging them as a 2011 Kookaburra nominee, while a selection will also be featured in a celebration publication to be released in February 2012.
A panel of eminent community leaders will sort through the entries and pick the three that light up the page. Winners will be notified by telephone.
All entries must be received by Our Community by 5pm on Friday, 26 August 2011.
For more information about the 2011 Kookaburra Awards, call the Our Community team on (03) 9320 6800 or email service@ourcommunity.com.au.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Westpac Kookaburra Awards:
The award winners were announced at Communities in Control 2010 on May 31
Click here to read the media release.
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