Join us for a free webinar for non-profit organizations on community-led legacy projects and archives, hosted by the Permanent Legacy Foundation and TheirStory. Current Byte4Byte partners will share their unique projects and insights. We will hear from representatives from Byte4Byte partnering organizations including E4Youth, Women Military Aviators, American Muslim Health Professionals, Washing State Jewish Historical Society, and the Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum. Attendees will learn how to apply for a Byte4Byte storage grant so they, too, can provide access to the diverse and vibrant legacies of individuals, organizations, and movements in their communities.

The Permanent Legacy Foundation’s mission is to preserve and provide perpetual access to the digital legacy of all people for the historical and educational benefit of future generations. A core part of our approach to digital preservation is our Byte for Byte granting program, which provides free, secure cloud storage to fellow nonprofits who have limited means and/or infrastructure to support digital preservation efforts typically employed by larger cultural heritage institutions. By working alongside nonprofit partners across the United States, Permanent is helping to ensure future generations have access to the diverse and vibrant legacies of individuals, organizations, and movements by way of the often grassroots organizations who steward these materials that tell invaluable stories and help shape the historical record.

TheirStory's mission is to create tools, services, and curriculum that empower communities to take ownership of their own narrative. TheirStory started as a way of sharing and preserving memories among family—but it has since transformed into a platform that streamlines the process for any community to collect, preserve, and engage with the audiovisual stories of the individuals that make up their community. Many Byte4Byte grantees also use TheirStory to collect oral histories, then preserve them on Permanent.org.