The partnership with Ideos Institute’s Center for Empathy in Christian and Public Life (CECPL) will equip young Christians in academia, faith-based-institutions, and public life, to engage in the complex issues of our modern society faithfully. This project aims to support emerging leaders, with an emphasis on leaders from BIPOC communities, within the American Christian faith tradition to embody love in their communities through a community of practice initiative.

A partnership with FoRB (Freedom of Religion or Belief) Women’s Alliance, an emerging initiative of 21 Wilberforce. FoRB Women’s Alliance is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort to weave an ecosystem of organizations and networks committed to centering women in work to advance FoRB. This project will help the Institute clarify how the concepts of freedom of Spirit and of love are mutually dependent and inseparable. This project will explore the hypothesis that the denial of freedom of Spirit for women is a denial of their full human capacity to love in every sphere of life.

The Gilmore Keyboard Festival presents an exciting opportunity for companies to invest in the cultural life of our community.

Support for a three year collaboration with Citizen University (the University). In addition to nurturing Eric Liu’s prophetic voice for healing divides and strengthening democracy, the proposed collaboration will allow the Institute to learn from the University’s innovative Civic Saturdays and Civic Fellowship programs and their potential for fostering spiritual transformation in local civic assemblies. The project will also deepen and scale the University’s work.

A project partnership that will bring together two faith-based institutions and their leaders across theological and political differences to offer a course that explores spiritual common ground called Virtues in the Public Square. This project would launch Virtues in the Public Square, a multimedia course that explores seven virtues––wisdom, justice, courage, temperance, humility, generosity, and friendship––through the lens of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The curriculum translates the classical traditions of virtue for modern audiences.

General support for Harriet Tubman Museum Cape May, NJ

Support for an 18 month partnership with Public Agenda and USA Today to continue Hidden Common Ground (HCG)—an initiative designed to help Americans identify and strengthen their common ground—and introduce research and storytelling that reveals the spiritual and religious motivations of depolarization among Americans. Through research, journalism, public engagement and storytelling, HCG was created to help Americans productively navigate their authentic differences and create fair and effective solutions to the challenges of our time.

Support for a 15 month collaboration with the Mind & Life Institute and the Mission: Joy impact team to co-create and implement the Joy Summit, a multi-day virtual summit scheduled for September 2022. The summit is inspired by the theme of JOY and builds on the learning and actions as demonstrated in the documentary Mission: Joy—a film about the friendship between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the lessons from their extraordinary lives as spiritual exemplars.

Support for the strategy development of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and its 2021 annual conference. This strategy development will include an in-depth planning and visioning process for CASEL and the greater Social Emotional Learning (SEL) field; the gathering of key leaders to shape the SEL field moving forward; and the intentional integration of spirituality, diversity and equity, and parent involvement within CASEL’s offerings.