Minwax® Community Craftsman Award

Each year, Minwax^® honors select individuals and organizations that have demonstrated a dedication to the betterment of their community through exemplary achievements in woodworking. From April through December 31, 2012, individuals and organizations across America may nominate themselves or someone in their community for the Minwax^® Community Craftsman Award, designed to reward outstanding community service through woodworking.

Minwax^® Announces 2011 Community Craftsman Award Recipients

The Michigan Woodworkers' Guild of Royal Oak, Michigan Earn Grand Prize for Volunteer Work on Behalf of the Detroit Medical Center - Children's Hospital of Michigan

View the 2011 Winners

Details For Entry

Qualified participants must engage in an activity that involves, but is not limited to, working with wood. The endeavor must promote the feeling of pride and satisfaction that is part of working with wood, and encourage the goal of community or self-improvement. Recent winners have included a high school carpentry program in which the students built an entire new house for a low-income family; a retiree who builds wooden toys for sick and abused children, with more than 3,100 toys made and donated in a single year; and a group of students who built dozens of wooden barn owl nests in an effort to repopulate the endangered bird in their area. Minwax^® encourages all eligible woodworkers and craftspeople to enter the 2012 program.

Submit a Nomination.

Awards

Grand prize
- $5,000 cash grant
- Supply of Minwax products
- Consultation from leading wood finishing expert Bruce Johnson

Individual Recognition Award
- $2,000 cash grant

Runners-Up
- Supply of Minwax products