Green Bar Mitzvah Tikkun Olam Contest!

Twisted Limb Paperworks is running a contest to promote tikkun olam projects.

TIKKUN OLAM SERVICE AWARD
Healing the World
Twisted Limb Paperworks is proud to announce the first annual Tikkun Olam Service Award for the mitzvah service projects that offer the most creative and most impactful solutions to an environmental or social problem in your community or the world.

Two awards will be given, one for the most creative solution and one for the most impactful solution to an environmental or social problem.

Each award winner will receive:
Handmade 100% recycled Twisted Limb invitations and thank-you notes for her or his bat/bar mitzvah (up to a $1500 value).
A handmade beautifully framed certificate recognizing your achievement.
Recognition through a press release, greenmitzvot.com, and the Twisted Limb website, blog and facebook page, which will be set up to help raise money for your cause.
Each participant will receive:
50 personalized 100% recycled thank-you notes with the purchase of bat/bar mitzvah invitations from Twisted Limb Paperworks.

To apply:
You must be 11-13 years old and preparing to become a bat/bar mitzvah in the fall of 2009 or at any point in 2010.
E-mail a 1-2 page essay outlining your project, goals, methods, and why this particular project is important to you, to info@twistedlimbpaper.com by August 30, 2009.
Give us your name, address, phone, e-mail, and synagogue at the top of the essay.
The Twisted Limb staff will post details of the three projects we consider to have the most creative and farthest reaching solution at twistedlimb.blogspot.com on September 17, 2009 and will encourage our customers to choose their favorite to be the award recipient.
Recipient will be announced on September 30,2009.

For more information see Twisted Limb Paperwork's website.