This project seeks to support the final production costs and accompanying impact campaign for the film Sabbath. This 2-hour documentary film to be produced for public television explores the religious concept of the Sabbath—traditionally a call to gather as a community in worship and increasingly in modern life as an appreciation of rest, family time, and a reflection of the rhythms of the natural world.

A partnership with Redeeming Babel to develop the civic character of Christians in their institutional lives by addressing the historic neglect of institutions in Christian character formation - an oversight that must be remedied for both Christian spiritual health and the common good. The specific character virtues being targeted are purpose, commitment, and servanthood. This partnership will concentrate on how these virtues are experienced in the context of institutional life.

This collaboration will enable the Millennial Action Project (MAP) to implement the Pluribus Fellowship, a spiritually grounded leadership development framework for young lawmakers that was developed in partnership with the Institute. The Institute will also work with MAP to identify a manager for the project with expertise in contemplative practices and spiritual literacy.

A partnership with Grantmakers for Education (EdFunders) to address the strategic question of how funders can support the development of a new infrastructure for education transformation, with a focus on developing the capacity for experiencing the sacred nature of reality. This includes shaping a new narrative for the purpose and aims of education grounded in an understanding of the interconnectedness and need to support mutual flourishing of all of life.

Funding to support two spiritual retreats for the inaugural class of the Weissberg Scholars Fellows, in collaboration with the Collaboration for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). The Weissberg Scholars Fellows (Fellows) seeks to inspire and catalyze innovative approaches to scholarship and practice. The program will support planning, research, implementation, and assessment of emerging SEL scholars as well as create and provide support for a collaborative community of scholars who are at the intersection of SEL research, practice, and policy.

Support for an initiative of Leadership Foundations (LF) called Cities: The Playgrounds of Love. Leadership Foundations exists to steward a vision of how they believe God sees the world’s cities—not as accidents of humankind, but as an intentional part of God’s divine plan for humanity—places where they as individuals and communities are able to cultivate a shared vision of flourishing rooted in Love.

This project with Cardus, through Breaking Ground, will build a two-way street of learning and accountability between local doers and the national intellectual and coalition leaders already represented in the Breaking Ground network to bridge the chasm, and discover the proper vehicles of translation between ideas and action.

Support over two years to build upon the initial learnings from Asma Uddin’s Politics of Vulnerability (POV) book and framework to address entrenched religious liberty divides and polarization in the U.S. The second stage of the project builds on the first stage through empirical and legal research and by embedding findings in educational assets and the work of multi-sectoral partners.

A partnership between the Institute and the Center for Public Justice on a project called Mapping Faith-Based Child Care Providers to Advance Shared Flourishing. This project will begin to map a largely undercounted type of faith-based social services: faith-based childcare providers. Faith-based childcare providers embody organizational love of neighbors through distinct and even different spiritual commitments by serving families that may or may not share their faith.

Funding to advance a landscaping partnership with Dr. Nina Balmaceda, associate director of Duke Divinity School’s Center for Reconciliation and Transformation and national director for Peace and Hope International. The purpose of this mapping project is to uncover the history, spiritual inspiration, and organizational sacred story of Peace and Hope International, an international faith-based NGO, during its first 25 years of work, serving the most vulnerable populations in Peru and Latin America.