Participants in the ARI Rural Leaders Training Program, with the exception of Japanese participants, attend the program under full scholarship, because they are chosen from communities and local organizations that cannot afford to pay the full costs of travel and training. For over 40 years this has been made possible by donor funding, which is received from hundreds of individuals who are mostly Christian from across Japan and abroad, as well as from churches and other institutional givers of grants and scholarships. ARI is therefore in need of funding support, as well as donations in kind (materials, expertise, volunteer labor), to continue this program.