Our generous
Supporters
Our work is supported entirely by charitable grants and donations,
ranging from major donors to individuals who see the value of what we do.
The Arcadia Fund, United Kingdom
EMEL is grateful to Arcadia for its visionary support of EMEL’s collaboration with St. Catherine’s Monastery to recover hundreds of unstudied texts from antiquity, which are preserved in the erased layers of the monastery’s many palimpsests.
2013 — Sinai Palimpsests Project [Learn More], $2.1 million over five years.
2011 — Design and Fabrication of Spectral Transmissive Light Source, $35,000
2009 — St. Catherine’s Monastery Palimpsests Survey, $85,000
National Endowment for the Humanities, USA
2013 — Integrating Spectral and Reflectance Transformation Imaging for the Digitization of Manuscripts & Other Cultural Artifacts [Lear More], Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, $60,000 [FAIN: HD-51709-13]
2011 — The Nyangwe Diary of David Livingstone: Restoring the Text [Learn More], Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, $50,000 [FAIN: HD-51042-10]
The Seaver Institute, USA
2005 — Seed money grant and gift-in-kind, enabling EMEL to organize itself as a nonprofit, develop new cutting-edge technologies for digitizing manuscripts, and undertake its first international digitization project.