Resources

Browse the links below for a variety of resources that our community has found useful.

Advancing Foundation Archives Seattle 2023 session recordings

• Introductory Remarks
• There's No Business Like Information Business
• Building the Case for Information Management in Your Foundation
• Developing Information Management Programs Through Internal Partnerships
• The More you Know: When Information Becomes Knowledge
• Closing Remarks

Repositories of foundation and nonprofit history

• Rockefeller Archive Center
• Ruth Lilly Special Collections & Archives at IUPUI
• Issue Lab by Candid

Find an archivist or records manager

• Association of Records Managers & Administrators
• Society of American Archivists

Foundation archiving and records management

• Archives of U.S. Foundations: An Endangered Species (2012)
• Archiving Forward and Backward: Two Perspectives on Capturing the Impact of Limited-Life Foundations (2020)
• Establishing Foundation Archives: A Reader Guide and First Steps (1991)

Building the Case for Information Management in Your Foundation

• Retention Schedule Template

Digital preservation organizations

• National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). A US-based consortium of organizations committed to long-term preservation of digital information. Hosted by the Digital Library Federation. Annual conference in November is called DigiPres.
• Digital Preservation Coalition. UK-based digital preservation community that promotes good practice and standards.

Grant data archiving

• Fluxx Exporter. An open-source tool that allows users to select and export grant information from the Fluxx grants management system.
• A Path to Permanence: Navigating Archival Export from Salesforce for Grantmaking Organizations. A report that examimes the current realities of archival export from Salesforce, identifies the core requirements, describes the landscape of existing export tools and contexts, provides an analyzes of the extent to which existing solutions meet the requirements, and offers a set of considerations and recommendations for organizations of all sizes and capacities.

Email archiving

• The Future of Email Archives: A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives. August 2018. Published by CLIR.
• Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community. News about active grant projects focused on email archiving. Hosted by the University of Illinois.
• Requirements for Archiving Email using PDF [draft report]. May 2020. Drafted by the Task Force on Technical Approaches to Email Archives, University of Illinois
• A specification for using PDF to package and represent email. EA-PDF Working Group, University of Illinois, 2021
• ePADD open-source software. 2010-2021. Developed by Stanford University libraries.

Data sets management

• Information Sharing Approach from the Gates Foundation
• re3data, a registry of research data repositories
• Zenodo, hosted by CERN to share and preserve research data
• Dataverse, an open-source web application developed by Harvard to share and preserve research data
• Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. October 2020. National Institutes of Health
• NSF Data Management Plan Requirements. June 2020. National Science Foundation.

Oral History

• Oral History Association
• Oral History in the Digital Age
• University of California, Berkeley Oral History Center
• University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History