Jack G Buncher Charitable Fund Forthe Amer Jewish Joint Dist Committe

Optimizing the JDC Archives:The JDC Archives is a treasured historical time capsule that documents for posterity the remarkable story of our organization's indelible impact on the global Jewish journey. Every year, the Archives serves as an authoritative historical resource for approximately 700 formal research requests - and tens of thousands more who explore the Archives online to discover their own family roots. JDC's collections include more than three miles of text documents, 150,000+ images, 6,000 books, 1,000 artifacts, 600 films, and 2,700 video/audio recordings. The digital materials cover 4 million pages of text documents, 70,000 photographs, and 200 films.More than these quantitative benchmarks, the Jewish (see Sched. O) people rely on JDC's archival collections for authentic snapshots of the global Jewish experience.JDC is working to optimize the Archives, to keep it thriving and accessible to modern audiences. The project will curate, unite and digitize JDC's two major archival collections, one in New York and one in Jerusalem, toward ensuring that millions of digital assets documents, photographs and films can be easily located.