Center for Religion & Civic Culture

The Center for Religion and Civic Culture partners with community and faith-based organizations, foundations, and faculty members. CRCC serves as a catalyst for innovative partnerships in Los Angeles and around the globe. The center also supports scholarship at the University of Southern California by offering small grants for research, organizing working groups, and supporting interdisciplinary working groups.,

• Community Organizations: CRCC helps organizations to assess their policy and programming efforts.
• Funders and Foundations: CRCC conducts research to inform funding initiatives and facilitates relationships between congregations, faith-based organizing groups, and state and federal agencies.
• Faculty Members: CRCC enables faculty to link their religion-related research projects to external funding sources and provides grant management.
• Supporting Scholarship at USC: CRCC offers research grants and opportunities to participate in seminars for faculty members and graduate students.

Organizations

The following institutions and departments are currently engaged in joint initiatives, research, or sponsorship of events.

• Bin Talal Center, Georgetown University
• The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Inc. (Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers)
• Daystar University (Kenya)
• Departement Missionaire
• Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR)
• The Leipzig Mission (Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig)
• Mission Archives at the School of Mission and Theology
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• Moi University (Kenya)
• The Moravian Church (Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine)
• National Library of Scotland
• New Vision Partners
• Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation
• Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (Société des missions évangéliques de Paris)
• School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
• UCLA Cotsen Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
• USC Archaeology Research Center  
• USC Center on Public Diplomacy
• USC College
• USC College Commons
• USC Department of Anthropology
• USC Department of Political Science
• USC Department of Sociology
• USC Digital Archive
• USC Knight Chair in Religion and Media, Annenberg School for Communication
• USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
• USC Libraries
• USC School of International Relations
• USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development
• USC School of Religion
• USC School of Social Work
• Yale University Divinity School Day Missions Library

Funding Organizations

We are grateful to the following institutions for providing grant support for our initiatives.

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• California Council for the Humanities
• California Endowment
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life
• The Ford Foundation
• Getty Grant Program
• Henry Luce Foundation
• The James Irvine Foundation
• John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
• John Templeton Foundation
• National Science Foundation
• One Nation for All
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• University of Akron
• USAID/Higher Education for Development