President
December 19, 2017
The University of Portland has selected 12 distinguished jurors who will meet next month to select the three finalists for the 2018 Opus Prize, a $1.2 million award given annually that recognizes individuals or organizations who are motivated by their faith to address persisting social problems within their communities. Members of the Opus Prize Jury, leaders from Portland and Oregon’s business, non-profit, faith, civic, and media communities, will be tasked with offering answers to the guiding question “What does the world need more of?”
The 2018 Opus Prize Jury:
Facilitator: Tom Arndorfer, President, Jesuit High School, Portland; Chair, UP Board of Regents
The Opus Prize Jury will review nominations submitted to the University through a confidential nomination process that began last summer. The candidates nominated for the 2018 Opus Prize are “unsung heroes” whose inspirational work combines the spirit of innovation with amazing faith, as they seek to inspire long-term, local solutions to address poverty and injustice. The nominations reflect work being done domestically and internationally.
About the Opus Prize
The Opus Prize Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sponsors the Opus Prize, an annual, faith-based humanitarian award recognizing individuals internationally and domestically who are addressing persistent and pressing social problems within their communities. Each year, the Opus Prize Foundation chooses a Catholic university to serve as its partner in selecting the Opus Prize laureates and finalists. The award is one of the world's largest faith-based awards for social entrepreneurship, composed of one $1 million award and two $100,000 prizes.
The University of Portland will host a week-long celebration in Portland from November 11-15, 2018, during which all three finalists will be on campus to visit classrooms and engage in conversation with the University community and the greater Portland community. This week will culminate in the Opus Prize Awards Ceremony on November 15, when the $1 million award and two $100,000 prizes will be announced.
For more information about the Opus Prize, please visit www.opusprize.org. For additional information about the University of Portland’s partnership with the Opus Prize Foundation, please contact Dan McGinty, director of the Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation & Applied Ethics, at 503.943.7596 or at mcgintyd@up.edu.
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