Editing Archive (section)

===Non-profit===
Non-profit archives include those in [[List of Historical Societies|historical societies]], not-for-profit businesses such as hospitals, and repositories within [[Foundation (charity)|foundations]].  Such repositories are typically set up with private funds from donors to preserve the papers and histories of specific people or places. These institutions may rely on [[Grant (money)|grant]] funding from the government as well as private funds.<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Dorothy Weyer |last1=Creigh |first2=Laurence R. |last2=Pizer | year=1991 | title=A Primer for Local Historical Societies |edition=2nd |page=122 |publisher=[[American Association for State and Local History]] |isbn=9780942063127 }}</ref> Depending on the availability of funds, non-profit archives may be as small as the historical society in a rural town to as big as a state historical society that rivals a government archive. Users of this type of archive may vary as much as the institutions that hold it. Employees of non-profit archives may be professional archivists, [[paraprofessional]]s, or volunteers, as the education required for a position at a non-profit archive varies with the demands of the collection's user base.<ref>{{Cite book| first=Walter Muir |last=Whitehill |year=1962 | title=Independent Historical Societies: An Enquiry into Their Research and Publication Functions and Their Financial Future  |chapter=Introduction |page=311 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |publisher=Boston Athenaeum }}</ref>