It is a collaboration between two of Guatemala's longest standing human rights-based NGO, Grupo De Apoyo Mutuo and Haverford College Libraries.
GAM itself was founded in 1984 during the internal armed conflict with a group of people looking for their missing loved ones.
Both parties shared a common interest in preserving GAM's archive and they quickly collaborated.
[1] Over the past couple of years GAM has grown substantially in size and influence; additionally, Haverford has begun to fund projects for students to do.
These projects have taken on a variety of forms, including research on nonviolent resistance efforts taken by the GAM, the voices of women and mothers in the archive, and a process of demographic analysis to depict who is in the archive, among others.