The Awards Foundation was set up to raise $1 million to fund prizes for the Children's Book of the Year Awards in perpetuity.
Donations to the CBCA Awards Foundation are tax deductible and can be sent to:
PO Box 172 Blackheath NSW 2785 ph: 02 9630 2424 or 02 4787 8492 fax: 02 9630 2594
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The Awards Foundation are excited to announce that a fund raising effort to raise $5000 in the name of Eve Pownall has been successful. Her name is now added to the donor panel. Hot on the heels of that campaign comes another - to raise another $5000 in the name of the recently deceased Jean Chapman. Her family have agreed to this and we hope you will all support it! Please download the customised donation form and help us add Jean's name as well.
The original prize for the Children's Book of the Year Awards was a camellia if the winner was female or a handshake if male. Government funding supported the Awards for some time (1966-1988). This was followed by commercial sponsorship (Angus & Robertson, Penguin Books Australia, Collins Dove and Franklin Watts in 1988; Myer-Grace Bros. 1989-1993; Angus & Robertson 1994; Reed Books Australia, Australia Post and Social Book Clubs 1995) which made it possible to offer substantial monetary prizes of up to $10,000 per category to the authors and illustrators of winning and honour books. Extreme difficulty in finding commercial sponsorship for the Awards prize money led to a decision, at the end of 1995, to set up the Awards Foundation with the aim of collecting $1,000,000 to enable the CBCA to support the Awards prizes at their previous level in perpetuity.
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