Here is a look at 2025's Award Dinner recipient:

CLUES (Spanish for: Latino Communities United in Service) is Minnesota’s largest Latino-led nonprofit organization, founded in 1981 by and for Latinos to provide culturally and linguistically relevant services. Our mission is to advance social and economic equity and well-being for Latinos by building upon our strengths and cultures, uplifting our community, and enabling leadership for systemic change.

May 8, 2025 at: The Wilds Golf Club; 3151 Wilds Ridge Ct, Prior Lake, MN 55372

6:00 Social Hour
7:00 Dinner and presentations
9:00 Final Blessing

Previous recipients of the Franciscan International Award include: the late Dr. Billy Graham for true Ecumenism (1972); the late Dr. Mildred Jefferson, M.D. – as a leader in the Pro-Life Movement (1978); Sister Helen Prejean – for being an advocate for those on death row, their victims, their families, and the families of their victims (2003); Fran Heitzman, the founder of Bridging, for helping families to furnish homes with hope (2014) and last year, One World Surgery.

For 65 years the Franciscan International Award Dinner has been an opportunity for retreatants and friends of Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center in Prior Lake MN to gather together and support the ministry of the retreat house as well as honoring a person or an organization who embodies the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi.

Featuring again this year - Raffle Baskets, for which we are accepting monetary donations.

Dinner ticket options
$75.00 –  Individual ticket
$150.00 –  two person ticket (2 People)
$250.00 –  Patron level (2 People, includes an extra donation to the retreat center. Your name will be mentioned in the evening's program) $600.00 –  Benefactor level (2 People, includes an extra donation to the retreat center plus sponsors a friar, priest, or religious community guest to attend the FIA dinner. Your name will be mentioned in the evening's program)
$600.00 –  Table Sponsor (8 people - please send us your guest's names by May 4th)