Gzowski prize recognizes doing something good for literacy

If there's someone at your magazine who deserves to be recognized for services to literacy in this country, now's the time to enter them (or yourself) for the Peter Gzowski Award of Merit. It's a prize awarded by ABC Canada Literacy Foundation.

The competition is open to all professional journalists working and residing in Canada. Journalists may submit their own work, or nominate the work of another. Entries may be of either a local or national interest, and may be based on reporting analysis, commentary, special sections, features or series.

Work for magazines, newspaper, television news and features, radio and the internet are all eligible.Entries for the 2007 competition must have been published, broadcast or posted online between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006. All entries must be received on or before June 15.

The winner will be announced September 5 in Toronto; a $1,000 donation is made to the literacy organization of their choice on their behalf.

Editor, writer and CBC radio personality Peter Gzowski vowed in 1986 to raise $1 million in his lifetime to benefit community-based literacy organizations. To date the PGI Golf Tournaments for Literacy he founded have raised more than $10 million net, making this initiative the most successful fundraiser for literacy in Canada.

ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation is the national charity committed to raising awareness about family, adult and workplace literacy issues. ABC CANADA's focus is on public awareness programs, providing promotional support to local literacy groups, and conducting research to further the development of a fully literate Canadian population.