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Finalists announced for $1 million Opus Prize
Sept. 6, 2007

The Opus Prize Foundation has announced the three finalists for its 2007 $1 million humanitarian Opus Prize.

The Opus Prize will be presented at a ceremony Thursday, Nov. 8, at Catholic University’s Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center in Washington, D.C.

The three finalists are as follows:

Rev. John Adams, who for the last 29 years has been president of SOME (So Others Might Eat), in Washington, D.C., a social services organization for the homeless;
Brother Constant Goetschalckx, who is founder and director of AHADI International Institute, in Tanzania, which educates refugees from the war-torn countries of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi by providing post-secondary training via a distance-learning program;
The Homeless People’s Federation Philippines, an organization that has enabled squatters living on a sprawling garbage dump in Quezon City to create community savings and credit programs, purchase land, build housing and set up waste disposal and water distribution systems.

Established in 2004, the Opus Prize is a faith-based humanitarian award affiliated with the Minnetonka-based Opus Group. The award consists of the $1 million top prize and two $100,000 runner-up awards given each year to recognize unsung heroes — either individuals or organizations — working to solve social problems.