The Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship is dedicated to helping intentional Catholics and like-minded collaborators create and grow person-centered companies.

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The Home of a New Kind of Entrepreneur

The Ciocca Center aims to promote a new kind of entrepreneur: a person capable of integrating personal virtue, cutting-edge entrepreneurial tools and long-term perspective to launch and grow enterprises that harness human creativity at the service of individuals and communities.

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What We Do

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Host Events

We organize events that bring together principled entrepreneurs. We discuss the intersection of Catholic social thought and business, provide social opportunities, and equip business leaders to lead with virtue.

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Organize Programs

We run fellowships, high school programs, and even a business incubator where students and alumni create real businesses.

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Provide Resources

Our leaders have written books, created a podcast, and run a newsletter to equip entrepreneurs with the inspiration and knowledge they need for ethical business leadership.

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Our Person-First Approach

We believe the dignity of the human person is at the center of business and economic life.

We harness the power of principled entrepreneurship to overcome the small-spirited, zero-sum vision of business by inspiring the creation of profitable, person-centered companies.

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About Us

We seek to innovate, teach, mentor, exhort, and model a virtuous, entrepreneurial society. Check out our amazing programs, initiatives, people, and the mission that defines us.

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