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FOUNDATION SUPPORT

From the earliest days of its inception, the WSRP has received significant operating support from several major foundations. This support has allowed the program to develop into its current model of five visiting scholars. Over the past 20+ years, more than 100 women have been shaped by the scholarship of the program and have in turn helped shape the study of women and religion. The WSRP is grateful to the Ford Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carpenter Foundation for their support in helping to make this possible.

In addition to operating support in 1998, the WSRP received a $500,000 challenge grant from the Ford Foundation toward endowing the program and assuring its place at Harvard Divinity School in perpetuity.

The grants from the Ford Foundation and the Lilly Endowment were among the first and largest given by these foundations in the field of religion.