The Board of Editors of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures is
indebted to several sponsors.

Brill Academic Publishers
At the ground level, Brill's willingness to advance funds and to invest its
staff time in EWIC over a period of time that was longer than any of us
imagined was critical to the establishment of EWIC.

University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis offered an immediate commitment to
EWIC, including financial, office, and staff support. Support came from the
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Dean of Social Sciences, the Dean of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies and the Department of Anthropology.

Ford Foundation
In 2001, the Ford Foundation awarded EWIC a grant, and a second one in 2004,
without which EWIC could not have grown from the originally planned three
volumes to six volumes. The grant has supported research assistants, editor
release time, translation costs and other related costs for EWIC. The
participating Ford offices include: New York, President's Office; New York,
Education, Sexuality, Religion Unit; New York, Human Rights Program;
Beijing; Cairo; Jakarta; Johannesburg; Lagos; Manila; Moscow; Nairobi; New
Delhi.

International Development Research Center
IDRC awarded EWIC a grant in 2005 to update and expand its EWIC Scholars
Database for publication on-line for free public access. This service to the international community of scholars and practitioners offers scholars, students, and practitioners information dissemination, networking and knowledge building.

Swedish Institute Alexandria
SwedAlex awarded EWIC a grant in 2005 to co-fund, with the Ford Foundation
grant, the translation into Arabic of Volume I of EWIC for publication
on-line for free public access. This most unusual project makes the
critical methodological resource volume of EWIC available to a large
international community of Arabic reading scholars and practitioners.