The Business, Faith and Common Good Institute has been awarded a 1.2 Million dollar grant for the Economy of Communion Project– an effort housed in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University to promote the Economy of Communion Movement by creating content and materials for professors to use in the classroom, and for students and business people to use to learn more about an Economy of Communion approach to business practices.

Creighton will be providing infrastructure and support for the project. Staffing which is funded by the grant will include the director (Andy Gustafson), associate director, an assistant director, and at least 2 interns, employed by Creighton but funded through the grant. Aspects of the project include a symposium event the 2nd year which will bring noted scholars to Creighton to present papers which will be published in a book. The project involved also doing extensive interviews with at least 12 entrepreneurs. The footage from those interviews will serve both as a basis for an edited-down 1 hour video, as well as snippets which will be paired with case studies on various EoC examples of how to treat customers, employees, competitors, how to approach marketing, economics, entrepreneurship, leadership, etc with EoC values. Also short essays will be commissioned from various professors, teachers and experts to give brief overviews of focused topics such as “an EoC Approach to HR, with examples” and “How an EoC approach to Economics differs from traditional Economics” and other similar essays for classroom and lay use. Finally, we also will be putting together an EoC course which will be available for free to any university who may want to use it. So many classroom-friendly deliverables will result from the project. The materials are aimed at those who participate in business generally, not just those who own businesses of their own. More can be seen on our website at the EOC Project page.