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Giving opportunities
Unrestricted endowments
Gifts to our endowment with no restrictions or limitations have the most profound impact on the Center on Religion & the Professions. The singular purpose of an unrestricted endowment is to foster excellence at every level. Because an endowment exists in perpetuity, unrestricted funds address needs and provide for opportunities in the effort to improve religious literacy that we cannot anticipate today.
Center naming endowment
The Center on Religion & the Professions is a nameable opportunity and would assure the vitality and continuation of our important work after the Center’s current grant funding ends.
Endowment of a Chair in Religion and Media
Only one such chair in Religion and Media exists in the country. An endowed chair assures that religion will be a continued part of the education and research of students at the world’s oldest and best school of journalism.
Endowment of a Chair in Religion and Health
An endowed chair assures that religion will be a continued part of the education and research of health professions students at University of Missouri.
Endowment of quarterly lecture series
A quarterly lecture series raises the Center’s profile by bringing well-respected researchers and popular authors who address related topics in a rapidly changing spiritual landscape. The lecture series provides either an overall naming opportunity for the series or naming opportunities for individual lectures.
Faculty forums
To encourage faculty and graduate students to share completed and ongoing research that blends some aspect of religion with their disciplines.
Fellowships
Allowing scholars from across the country to conduct focused research in religion is important to stimulating new collaborations and discoveries in how religion relates to various disciplines. It also brings national prestige to the Center. The Center has a goal of four fellows per year. Fellows would receive a stipend to offset salary loss and housing costs, plus tuition waivers.
Film series
Cinema has proven to be a medium in which complex questions about faith, spirituality and religion are addressed both deeply and in a format that is accessible to the general public. Beginning in 2007, the Center hosts monthly films relating to a yearly theme. The theme for 2007-08 was “Religion & Politics.” In 2008-09 the theme is “Spirituality & Health.” The film series includes multiple naming rights opportunities.
Conference or workshop
Annual conferences or workshops allow the Center to bring experts together to address an issue central to increasing religious literacy. Members of the university and the overall community could engage with experts on issues important to their community, their country and the world. The conference or workshop provides another naming opportunity and raises the profile of the Center on campus and nationally.
Curriculum development
Curriculum designed by the Center on Religion & the Professions aims to equip professional schools around the nation with strategies and materials that prepare students for the rapidly changing religious environment in which they will operate after graduation. It also helps professionals and students become more aware and respectful of religious and cultural diversity among co-workers, clients or patients, and of how religion affects their own perspectives. Development of curriculum involves research, production, testing, presentation and printing or hosting on our web site.
Student scholarships
Scholarships would assure that undergraduate and graduate students could pursue interests marrying their disciplines with additional study in religion.
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Please contact us for additional information about giving opportunities, including major gifts, and tax advantages of a philanthropic contribution.
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