The Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) of Loyola University Chicago seeks to promote equality and to improve people's lives in communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan region.

CURL pursues this goal by building and supporting collaborative research and education efforts. These partnerships connect Loyola faculty and students with community and nonprofit organizations, civic groups, and government agencies. Such collaborations link the skills and wisdom present within every community with the specialized knowledge and academic discipline of a vital urban university. Working together, community needs are addressed and the academic experience is enriched.

The Corporate Accountability Project analyzes the impacts of business behavior on the ability of poor people to meet their basic needs - sustainable livelihoods, housing, food, and access to education, healthcare and credit.

The Education for Justice Project promotes outreach and education throughout the U.S. on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and social justice issues. The Project provides resource materials, presentations, training and consultations to Catholic high schools and colleges, to diocesan offices and groups, to parishes, small faith communities, and to a variety of networks and organizations.

The Institute was founded in the spring of 2006 as a result of a generous gift from the BB&T Charitable Foundation and is dedicated to an examination of all aspects of capitalism and the promotion of  an in-depth examination of a free society.  The Wheeling Jesuit University Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality will sponsor a series of programs ( including lectures, seminars  and undergraduate courses) to advance its mission of providing  a deeper understanding of the moral, legal and economic foundations of such free society   The Institute will support the growth and development of teaching and research and also establish a forum for differing opinions to promote  an enhanced appreciation of the concept, operation and effects of a Capitalistic system by engaging students,  the broader Wheeling Jesuit community and the community at large in programs and activities designed  to stimulate discussion of these important topics.

The Office for Community & Social Research (OCSR) advances the research, teaching and service mission of the College of Education and Public Service (CEPS) through the development, management and support of faculty-community grants, contracts, and services. OCSR and College staff, the College leadership team, and faculty fellows meet regularly to vet opportunities and proposals and engage broader university and community partners.

CARA is a national, non-profit, Georgetown University affiliated research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimensions to its mission: to increase the Church's self understanding, to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers, to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism.

The Global Women's Project approaches questions of women's human rights and equity through a long tradition of research, theological reflection, advocacy, outreach, popular education and coalition building.

The Center, named after the University's patron saint, promotes critical and committed analysis of the Catholic tradition. Its thought-provoking programs solicit discussion of all aspects of Catholicism, including literature, history, fine arts, philosophy, theology and the natural and social sciences.

The Thomas More Center encourages faculty and student research and study through a minor program in Catholic Studies for undergraduates and a research grant program for Rockhurst faculty. Additionally, the Center provides continuing education opportunities and outreach programs to the community-at-large.

Established in the spring of 2000, the Center has already sponsored a course whose lectures have been published by the Rockhurst University Press — Catholicism at the Millennium: The Church of Tradition in Transition .