Non-profit organization To Write Love on Her Arms won a Shorty Award in the non-profit category. The Shorty Awards is an award ceremony created for people to pick their favorite Twitter users in specific categories. Categories included in the The Shorty Awards were advertising, entertainment, humor, government, and more.

The Shorty Awards were hosted by Rick Sanchez, a CNN anchor who was one of the first television personalities to ever use Twitter. William Shatner was also in attendance, via satellite, to present an award. Some other Shorty Award winners included Ted Leo of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, fictional Mad Men character Betty Draper, television show True Blood, and political innovator Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker.

To Write Love on Her Arms would like to thank everyone who helped them achieve 3^rd place in the Chase Community Giving Contest. Because of everyone who voted and helped spread the word about TWLOHA, theywon $100,000 toward their ultimate goal of launching IMAlive. To read the thank you blog written by TWLOHA founder Jamie Tworkowski, please click here: http://www.twloha.com/blog/twloha-wins-100k-for-suicide-2

TWLOHA will put the $100,000 toward helping launch IMAlive, a live online crisis network which will provide real-time online crisis support to millions of people and will be the first 100 percent certified and trained staff and volunteer crisis line. Users will be able to talk one on one to responders through IMAlive’s instant messaging program.

To Write Love on Her Arms are a finalist in the Chase Community Giving Contest. TWLOHA is up against 99 other charities and the winning charity will be given a $1 million grant with the next 5 organizations receiving a $100K grant. The second round of voting is live now and ends on January 22nd. Please click here to vote: http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1299927
 
TWLOHA hopes to win the $1 million grant to help suicide prevention. TWLOHA is partnering with Kristin Brooks Hope Center to launch IMAlive, a live online crisis network which will provide real-time online crisis support to millions of people and will be the first 100 percent certified and trained staff and volunteer crisis line. Users will be able to talk one on one to responders through IMAlive’s instant messaging program.
 

WHAT:  “A few years ago, we started imagining these nights that could be more than music, nights where you could fill a room with hope and honesty, nights where you could also point to community and treatment,” said Jamie Tworkowski, founder of TWLOHA.

“Heavy and Light is sort of a dream come true for us. We’re given the keys to this amazing venue, to basically put whatever and whoever we want on that stage. The goal is something truly unique. It’s not a “benefit show”. It’s an attempt to challenge and inspire and encourage. More than anything, Heavy and Light is an attempt to move people, with songs and with stories and with a taste of community…” said Jamie.

WHAT: “A few years ago, we started imagining these nights that could be more than music, nights where you could fill a room with hope and honesty, nights where you could also point to community and treatment,” said Jamie Tworkowski, founder of TWLOHA.

“Heavy and Light is sort of a dream come true for us. We’re given the keys to this amazing venue, to basically put whatever and whoever we want on that stage. The goal is something truly unique. It’s not a “benefit show”. It’s an attempt to challenge and inspire and encourage. More than anything, Heavy and Light is an attempt to move people, with songs and with stories and with a taste of community…” said Jamie.

Back in January 2009, the 2nd annual Heavy and Light saw over 1,600 people come out to the House of Blues in Orlando, from throughout the Southeast and beyond. This year’s Heavy and Light will host acoustic performances by Mat Kearney, Aaron Gillespie (Underoath/The Almost), Bryce Avary (The Rocket Summer), Stephen Christian (Anberlin), Aaron Marsh (Copeland), Zach Williams andDamion Suomi.

Jamie Tworkowski founder of non-profit organization To Write Love on Her Arms won the mtvU “Good Woodie” award last night at Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. Other nominees in the category were Alicia Keys, Jon Legend, Wyclef, Kenna and Ra Ra Riot. The Good Woodie is an award for the artists whose commitment to a social cause has affected the greatest change this year and Jamie was the first non-musician ever to be nominated for a Woodie of any kind.

“Last night was amazing,” says Tworkowski. “It was exciting just to be in the room, an honor to be nominated and then basically unbelievable to win. We value music and the support of the music community so much, and then we’re so excited by the way our message has been embraced by college students. More than anything, this win belongs to our incredible audience. Their passionate voices continue to open surprising doors for us and last night was a big one – the chance to talk about hope and help on MTV.”

Click below for an interview with TWLOHA founder Jamie Tworkowski talking history, philosophy, mission, message, music, t-shirts, treatment, faith…

TWLOHA started as a story and one-off t-shirt with aims of helping to pay for the much needed treatment of a friend. TWLOHA quickly grew into something much larger.

Within three years time TWLOHA received over a half million on-line subscribers, directly responded and helped over 100,000 at-risk people from over 100 countries, and has invested over $600,000 into treatment and recovery.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery and was founded by Jamie Tworkowski in 2006. 
 
Jamie Tworkowski of TWLOHA has been nominated for a 2009 mtvU Woodie Award. He is nominated for the “Good Woodie,” an award for the artists whose commitment to a social cause has affected the greatest change this year. The Sixth Annual Awards Show Will Air On mtvU, MTV, MTV2 and Palladia on Friday, December 4 at 10pm ET. 

To vote for Jamie for the MTVU Good Woodie, please visit: http://www.mtv.com/ontv/woodieawards/2009/good-woodie/. Voting is live now and runs through November 16.   

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.  TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.  On October 5th the TWLOHA team will expand their outreach by launching a global outlet for honest conversation and community fused with music by Damion Suomi and Andy Zipf. 
 
All the world will be invited to see inside the TWLOHA headquarters via SynchLive. Click here to watch:  www.twloha.com/webcast  
 
For 1 week after the webcast, fans can download free music from Damion Suomi and Andy Zipf here:www.twloha.com/webcast  
 

If someone gave you a microphone and a stage, what would you say and what would you sing? Whether the crowd was 10 people or 10,000, what would you make with the moment?

I was going to write a letter to the frontmen–the folks who sing in bands. I was going to say that there should be a system or some classes where they would be reminded that music is a very special thing; something not unlike a miracle, rich with history and the potential to move people and change lives. They would learn about urgency and honesty, the value of a moment and a song’s unique ability to cause people to feel, to remind them that they’re alive and that life is worth living.

To Write Love On Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.

Revelation Generation has quickly emerged as the premier music festival in the greater New York and greater Philadelphia areas.  With some of the best music around, fields full of incredible people, Revelation Generation is evidence that when a venue cares- a lot of great things can happen!

This year, To Write Love On Her Arms is holding a contest supported by RevGen.  People have the opportunity to buy a RevGen ticket, specially marked up $10.  The $10 goes directly to the TWLOHA organization to help them while they inspire hope and encourage people struggling with mental health issues.  In addition to supporting TWLOHA, anyone who purchases one of these tickets is also entitled to 20% off select TWLOHA merchandise at the festival, a To Write Love On Her Arms wristband and a chance to draw for a winning prize.

There will be 50 winners selected each day for unlimited access to the Tent 7 artist interview tent to watch interviews by some of the headlining artists.  Also, each day a Grand Prize winner will be chosen to receive 2 backstage passes, $50 worth of TWLOHA merchandise, a signed TWLOHA poster from the festival bands, RevGen merchandise, and unlimited Tent 7 access.

For more information, please check out www.revgen.org <http://www.revgen.org>

To Write Love On Her Arms and Forever The Sickest Kids have been building a relationship for awhile, so this recent collaboration is really exciting for both parties. The t-shirts are available on the TWLOHA Web site and will be coming to the Warped Tour this week.

“I lost one of my closest friends to suicide in sixth grade,” said Jonathan Cook of FTSK. “When I heard about what TWLOHA does for prevention I wanted to do what we could to help support their actions.

“This shirt hopefully will open up more of our fans to the cause.”

For their third Warped, TWLOHA will be doubling their presence in the Take Action! Non-Profit Area. With two tents instead of one, TWLOHA aims to focus more on introducing their message of hope, help and community.

The Real World: Cancun and its After Show took a serious turn when Ayiiia’s cutting problem was revealed to the roommates, as well as to viewers at home. Since the episode aired, MTV and TWLOHA both received a lot of questions and comments.  MTV gave To Write Love on Her Arms, the platform to discuss these issues. Check the site out here.

For their third Warped, TWLOHA will be doubling their presence in the Take Action! Non-Profit Area. With two tents instead of one, TWLOHA aims to focus more on introducing their message of hope, help and community.

They will be showing PSA’s and other videos that highlight their surprising journey. There will also be computers with internet access so that people can check out twloha.com or sign up to support TWLOHA via SocialVibe.com. But more than anything, the goal is conversation: