Boston, Mass., Sep 5, 2023 / 12:06 pm
Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker is teaming up with the University of Notre Dame to offer a $10,000 award for the innovative use of Catholic Church property in light of societal and demographic change.
In partnership with Notre Dame’s Church Properties Initiative (CPI), a unit of the school’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, Butker and MDKeller, the holding company he co-founded with Austin Wright, conceived the award to recognize and support individuals or organizations with bold ideas to best use underutilized Church property.
“I am excited that MDKeller is partnering with Notre Dame and the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, as there are so many opportunities to reimagine how the Church views its real estate and how it can have a positive impact on future generations of Catholics,” Butker said in a press release from the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate.
“When discussing Church real estate, we are talking about more than just physical buildings. We are talking about our patrimony, and it is essential that we work together to ensure that the work of generations of Catholics before us was not done in vain,” he said.