Sunset Partners offers communications strategy, archival services, and first-hand spend-down expertise for foundations defining their legacy. We assist foundations in telling their stories, elevating grantee partners, and sharing community impact that endures.
Archival Specialist for the Nonprofit Sector
Nonprofit organizations face unique challenges: limited time and resources, high public accountability, and a mission-driven approach to recordkeeping. Whether your nonprofit is preparing for a milestone anniversary, legacy storytelling or looking to better organize and manage assets, with hands-on expertise, an archival specialist tailors proven archival best practices to suit your structure and needs.
- Protect your legacy for future generations.
- Implement sustainable systems for physical and digital records, ensuring ongoing accessibility and compliance.
- Enhance your organizational transparency and storytelling capacity.
Core Services:
- Collection and Digital Asset Management
- Digital and physical collection assessments & needs analysis to organize and preserve future assets.
- Arrangement, description, and processing of digital objects and collections into catalogs using metadata to improve accessibility and usability.
- Policy and procedure development, including records retention, access, and usage guidelines.
- Digitization Strategy
- Experience in working with external digitization companies according to archival preservation practices.
- Digitization strategy and implementation for physical materials to be digitized and added to a digital collection.
- Communications Support and Project Management
- Asset management support to align with communications strategic plans and values.
- Experience in supporting the production of art books, family history books, board and staff gifts, legacy websites, and physical exhibit spaces.
