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title: "Support WAI Financially"
nav_title: "Support"
title: "Support WAI financially"
nav_title: "Support WAI"
lang: en
last_updated: 2025-07-09
last_updated: 2025-07-15
description: Support the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) financially through donations, sponsorship, and grants to advance digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

permalink: /about/support/
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W3C greatly appreciates the support WAI receives from stakeholders committed to making digital technology accessible. Contributions such as grants, sponsorship, and support for fellows enable WAI to bring together a unique collaboration of industry, government, research, and people with disabilities in a cooperative effort to improve digital accessibility for disabled people.

* **Donate** — To donate and "become a friend of W3C", see [W3C Donations Program](https://www.w3.org/donate/).
* **Donate:** To donate and "become a friend of W3C", see [W3C Donations Program](https://www.w3.org/donate/).

* **Sponsor** — For information on sponsoring WAI by becoming an Accessibility Champion, please explore the [W3C Sponsorships Program](https://www.w3.org/sponsor/) benefits and contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]?subject=Accessibility%20support).
* **Sponsor:** For information on sponsoring WAI by becoming an Accessibility Champion, please explore the [W3C Sponsorships Program](https://www.w3.org/sponsor/) benefits and contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]?subject=Accessibility%20support).

* **Grant** — For information on providing grants and other opportunities to support WAI, please contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]?subject=Accessibility%20support).
* **Grant:** For information on providing grants and other opportunities to support WAI, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]?subject=Accessibility%20support).

Participate — To learn how you can contribute to W3C accessibility work by reviewing drafts and other ways to get involved, see [[Participate in WAI]](/about/participating/).
For other ways to get involved in WAI, such as contributing to W3C accessibility work by reviewing drafts, see [[Participate in WAI]](/about/participate-in-wai/).

## Current sponsors and funders

<img src="https://www.w3.org/WAI/content-images/people/still-dog-outside.png" alt="" style="float:right; margin-left:1em; width:240px; clear:both;" />

* **[Ford Foundation](https://www.fordfoundation.org/){:rel="nofollow"}, [Technology and Society Program](https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/technology-and-society/){:rel="nofollow"}**<!-- ([WAI-Core Ford Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/wai-core-ford/)) -->
* **[US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)](https://www.hhs.gov){:rel="nofollow"}, Administration for Community Living ([ACL](https://acl.gov){:rel="nofollow"}), National Institute for Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research ([NIDILRR](http://www.acl.gov/programs/NIDILRR/){:rel="nofollow"})**<!-- contract HHS75P00120P00168 ([WAI-Core 2015, 2020Projects](https://www.w3.org/WAI/Core2015/)) -->
* [Ford Foundation](https://www.fordfoundation.org/){:rel="nofollow"}, [Technology and Society Program](https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/technology-and-society/){:rel="nofollow"}<!-- ([WAI-Core Ford Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/wai-core-ford/)) -->
* [US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)](https://www.hhs.gov){:rel="nofollow"}, Administration for Community Living ([ACL](https://acl.gov){:rel="nofollow"}), National Institute for Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research ([NIDILRR](http://www.acl.gov/programs/NIDILRR/){:rel="nofollow"})<!-- contract HHS75P00120P00168 ([WAI-Core 2015, 2020Projects](https://www.w3.org/WAI/Core2015/)) -->

{% include excol.html type="start" id="past" %}

## Past supporters

{% include excol.html type="middle" %}

_**The organizations below provided financial support for W3C WAI work before W3C established as a 501(c)3 public-interest non-profit organization.**_
The organizations below provided financial support for W3C WAI work **before W3C was established as a 501(c)3 public-interest non-profit organization**._

<div style="float:right; margin-left:1em; width:90px; clear:both;"><br><br>
<img src="https://www.w3.org/WAI/content-images/people/two-smiling.png" alt="" /><br><br>
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### Past grants and contracts

* European Commission
* European Commission:
* DE [WAI-DE Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/TIDE/FR2.htm); Accompanying Measure IST [WAI-DA Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WAIDA/)
* [Horizon 2020](https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/){:rel="nofollow"} &mdash; [WAI-Guide Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/projects/wai-guide/), [WAI-CooP Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/projects/wai-coop/), [WAI-Tools Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/projects/wai-tools/), [Easy Reading Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/projects/easy-reading/)
* [Information Society Technologies Programme](http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/){:rel="nofollow"} &mdash; [WAI-DEV Project](http://www.w3.org/WAI/DEV/), [WAI-ACT Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/ACT/Overview.html), [WAI-AGE Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/Overview.html), [WAI-TIES Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/Overview.html)
* [Ford Foundation](https://www.fordfoundation.org/){:rel="nofollow"}, [Technology and Society Program](https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/technology-and-society/){:rel="nofollow"} <!-- mdash; ([WAI Expanding Access Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/expand-access/)) -->
* United States government
* United States government:
* [US Access Board](https://www.access-board.gov/){:rel="nofollow"}, US Department of Interior <!-- ([WCAG TA Project](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAGTA/Overview.html)) -->
* [US National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)](http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/nidrr/index.html){:rel="nofollow"}, US Department of Health and Human Services (previously US Department of Education) &mdash; contract HHSP23301500054, EDOSE10C0067<!-- ([WAI-Core 2010 Project]https://www.w3.org/WAI/Core/Overview.html)) -->
* [US National Science Foundation](http://www.nsf.gov){:rel="nofollow"}
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* Verizon Foundation
* Wells Fargo

### Past Fellows
### Past fellows

W3C WAI thanks organizations that have supported [W3C Fellows](https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Recruitment/Fellows) in WAI:

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## Others
{:.no_toc}

[Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/){:rel="nofollow"} provides previews of the WAI website
[Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/){:rel="nofollow"} provides previews of the WAI website.