2009 PRSA Hawaii Koa Anvil Awards: Call for Entries
PRSA Hawaii, the state’s premiere professional development and networking group for our local PR community, is accepting award entries from Hawaii’s best and brightest PR, communications and marketing professionals for PR programs and tactics completed in 2008. Winners will be recognized at the annual Koa Anvil Awards banquet held this year at the newly renovated Sheraton Waikiki on July 16, 6 to 9 p.m.
Entrants are encouraged to submit entries for multiple categories and submit early. The 2009 award categories and rules have not changed from last year and can be viewed below or downloaded by clicking
here.
Click here for the Koa Anvil entry form
Payment by check made payable to "PRSA Hawaii" is preferred. However, if you wish to pay by credit card, please click here. Note: You will be charged a credit card processing fee.
Early Bird Entry Deadline & Entry Costs:
April 17, 2009
- $50 PRSA members
- $75 non-members
Final Deadline & Entry Costs:
May 1, 2009
- $75 PRSA members
- $100 non-members
- $50 non-profit and sole practitioners PRSA member
- $75 non-profit and sole practitioners non-member
About the Koa Anvil Awards:
The four rings of excellence are elements by which success in the Koa Anvil competition is judged: research, planning, execution, and evaluation. It is the competition to develop better plans, use creativity to produce better results, increase professional skill to produce the best public relations programs and tools that keep the professional motivated and moving forward. Established in 1983, the Koa Anvil Awards capture and celebrate that spirit.
The Hawaii Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) conducts the annual Koa Anvil Awards competition to recognize outstanding public relations programs and tactics, and to encourage improved public relations performance and techniques.
The Koa Anvil Awards recognize complete public relations programs incorporating sound research, planning, execution, and evaluation. They must meet the highest standards of performance in the profession.
The Koa Hammer Awards recognize outstanding public relations tactics that are a component of a communications campaign. These include research, writing, publications, and audio and visual communications vehicles.
The Gregg W. Perry Public Relations Professional of the Year Award, presented by PRSA Hawaii, honors an exemplary practitioner who, during a distinguished career, has made a major contribution to the profession and has applied public relations techniques in a professional manner to achieve meaningful objectives.
The Hokupaa Award, named after the North Star, is symbolic of a guiding force that always provides leadership to peers in the profession. This award recognizes a relative newcomer to public relations for demonstrating exceptional leadership potential and achievement in his/her initial years in the profession.
The PRSA Hawaii President's Leadership Award recognizes an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to the success of the chapter and the profession.
The PRSA Hawaii Hall of Honor, the highest honor bestowed by the chapter, recognizes the ultimate public relations practitioners with distinguished and exemplary careers in public relations who have used the profession to help create understanding between the community and organizations or companies they represented.
Questions and concerns can be directed to Koa Anvil Awards Co-Chairs:
Lee Britos at Lee.Britos@MWC-Anthology.com or (808) 539-3473
Darcy Manning at darcymaeda@gmail.com or (808) 295-1608
other awards:
The Gregg Perry Award for Excellence
Recognizes a practitioner for a lifetime of achievement.
The Hokupa'a Award
Recognizes a practitioner with 2 - 5 years experience.
PRSA Hawai‘i President’s Leadership Award
Recognizes an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to the success of the chapter and the profession.
PRSA Hawai‘i Hall of Honor
The highest praise a practitioner can receive.
