Byte4Byte: Permanent.org's Grant for Non-Profits

The Photo Detective

This week, Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Amanda Meeks, Community and Partnerships Manager at Permanent.org. The two discuss Permanent’s initiative, Byte4Byte, which provides digital storage grants for non-profits across the country, as well as internationally, to enable them to save and share collections. Any size group can apply for grants and internship support.

Related Episodes:

Episode 161: Creating a Digital Archive with Permanent.org

Episode 95: How to Save Your Family Archive on Permanent.org

Links:

• Byte4Byte webinar
• Byte4Byte application
• Sign up for my newsletter.
• Watch my YouTube Channel.
• Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.
• Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.
• Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.
• Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.

About My Guest:

Amanda Meeks is Permanent.org’s community and partnerships manager prior to that, I worked in academic libraries.

She’s a professionally trained librarian and an artist as well as an end-of-life doula. One of her primary responsibilities is managing the Byte4byte grant program.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

I'm thrilled to be offering something new. Photo investigations. These collaborative one-on-one sessions. Look at your family photos then you and I meet to discuss your mystery images. And find out how each clue and hint might contribute to your family history. Find out more by going to maureentaylor.com and clicking on family photo investigations.

Support the Show.