Community Renewal awarded $1 million Opus Prize!
With great pleasure, excitement and gratitude, we are honored to announce that Community Renewal International, in honor of founder Mack McCarter, has been awarded a $1 million prize from the Opus Prize Foundation.
Community Renewal was one of three global finalists for the esteemed Opus Prize. Each year a Laureate is chosen from the three finalists and the 2022 winner was announced Thursday afternoon, Nov. 3, at the convocation at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. The other finalists were from Ecuador and Nigeria.
The Opus Prize is given not only to expand the humanitarian efforts of the recipient, but to inspire others to pursue lives of service. The $1 million award and two $100,000 prizes make up one of the world’s largest faith-based awards for social entrepreneurship.
Opus Prize laureates combine the spirit of innovation with amazing faith to inspire long-term, local solutions to address poverty and injustice. Opus Prize laureates prove change is possible, empowering and inspiring us all.
Opus Prize finalists are leaders who carry an unshakable faith, believing the problems they see around them not only can be resolved—they will.
Community Renewal is becoming a movement of HOPE helping to restore the relational fabric of our lives and create safe, connected and caring communities. It’s a movement that makes a life-changing difference!
“The honor of representing Shreveport and Bossier City, as well as all of our truly wonderful family of supporters, volunteers, and full-time team members of Community Renewal International, as a Finalist in the Global Opus Prize is simply beyond words. I join with you all in heartfelt gratitude to the Opus Prize Foundation for shining a hope-filled spotlight on the quietly committed souls who are bringing about the victory of love in our world,” McCarter said.
The 2022 Opus Prize finalists exemplify faith-filled leadership through service and indefatigable dedication to alleviating human suffering. We are edified, ennobled and inspired by their example, and the world is more loving, healthier, and peaceful as a consequence of their work.”
The 2022 Opus Prize finalists exemplify faith-filled leadership through service and indefatigable dedication to alleviating human suffering. We are edified, ennobled and inspired by their example, and the world is more loving, healthier, and peaceful as a consequence of their work.”
Kerry Alys Robinson is the executive partner for global and national initiatives at Leadership Roundtable and the Executive Director of the Opus Prize Foundation.
“The 2022 Opus Prize finalists exemplify faith-filled leadership through service and indefatigable dedication to alleviating human suffering. We are edified, ennobled and inspired by their example, and the world is more loving, healthier, and peaceful as a consequence of their work,” she said.
