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Living Legacy Initiative

Unlocking the value of the past to help shape the future.

The Living Legacy Initiative is Iron Mountain’s commitment to preserve and make accessible cultural and historical information and artifacts. Every day, we protect our customers’ most vital assets and information. The Living Legacy Initiative extends that same care and expertise to our communities through partnerships with nonprofit organizations.

We work with our partners to go beyond preserving the past to ensure that historical information is shared through engaging learning experiences. Our partnerships enable virtual tours of cultural sites across the globe, provide educational content related to important historical figures and events, and offer digital access to artifacts that would not be accessible otherwise.

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Partnerships built for impact

Preserving cultural heritage information and artifacts and ensuring they are accessible to current and future generations can help foster inclusion, understanding, and a sense of belonging across our global communities.

Our partnerships are founded on the belief that collaboration enhances our collective potential. Similar to our approach with customers, we invest time in understanding each partner's distinct challenges and objectives. This insight allows us to utilize our extensive experience in safeguarding and managing physical and digital assets and our global reach to maximize our impact.

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Our impact

We are committed to building deep relationships with our partners so that our support can have maximum impact. We know we have extensive experience in protecting and managing data and physical assets, which we can leverage to benefit our partners through in-kind services. We believe we have a responsibility to create social value in the communities in which we operate. We are committed to pursuing that responsibility and being a helpful member of our communities worldwide.

Historical and cultural information is a record of who and what we are as a global community. We must preserve these treasures and ensure that they are accessible before they are lost due to destruction or the passage of time. Iron Mountain strives to support organizations that create a link between the public and cultural, historical and educational legacies. To lose a piece of our culture or heritage is to lose a piece of ourselves.

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Watch the video to learn about our partnership with Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, US.

Journey to Equal Rights

We partner with selected nonprofit organizations on projects with an equal rights component.

As we continue the ongoing fight to achieve social equality for all, the history of the origins of these movements remains largely untold. Through virtual exploration of the places that ignited movements for social justice, the Journey to Equal Rights program amplifies the stories of activism that continue to shape our world today.

Our long-time partner CyArk, a nonprofit that digitally records, safeguards and archives world heritage sites, created the Journey to Equal Rights collection through the support provided by the Living Legacy Initiative. Join CyArk and Iron Mountain on a virtual journey to five places that have been pivotal in our ongoing struggle to achieve social equality. Take a 3D guided tour and discover stories of resistance and the fight for change that have propelled these causes forward over the last century. Browse the accompanying lesson plans funded by Iron Mountain that can be used by educators and students to learn more about these important moments in our history.

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Living Legacy Initiative

Living Legacy

Unlocking the value of the past to help shape the future.

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Partnerships built for impact

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Our impact

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Journey to Equal Rights

We partner with selected nonprofit organizations on projects with an equal rights component.

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Current Living Legacy Partners

Current Living Legacy Partners

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Unlocking the value of the past to help shape the future.

Partnerships built for impact

Our impact

Journey to Equal Rights

We partner with selected nonprofit organizations on projects with an equal rights component.