Partnering With Us
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 through its Interdisciplinary Research Group, which offers grants for research, organizes seminars and lectures, and supports 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.
- Researchers: CRCC enables faculty to link their religion-related research projects to external funding sources and provides grant management.
- Supporting Scholarship at USC: CRCC Interdisciplinary Research Group 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.
- The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Inc. (Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers)
- Daystar University (Kenya)
- 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 Disaster Interfaiths Network
- National Library of Scotland
- New Vision Partners
- Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation
- Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (Société des missions évangéliques de Paris)
- Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
- School of Mission and Theology in Stavenger
- School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- UCLA Center for the Study of Religion
- UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
- USC Archaeology Research Center
- USC Center on Public Diplomacy
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- USC Department of Anthropology
- USC Department of Political Science
- USC Department of Sociology
- USC Digital Library
- USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion, 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
Corporate, Foundation, and Institutional Support
We are grateful to the following institutions for providing grant support for our initiatives.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- California Community Foundation
- California Council for the Humanities
- California Emergency Management Agency
- The California Endowment
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life
- Comerica Bank
- The Ford Foundation
- Getty Grant Program
- Henry Luce Foundation
- The James Irvine Foundation
- John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation
- Liberty Hill Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- One Nation for All
- Security and Rights Collaborative, a project of the Proteus Fund
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- University of Akron
- USAID/Higher Education for Development