 Following its transfer to the foundation, a Board of Curators was created to serve in an advisory capacity to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees on the operations of the Archives.Initially the Board was made up of 7 members (now 15) “who have made significant contributions to family practice; who possess a broad perspective of the discipline; who have a strong interest in its historical development; and who are familiar with all the organizations in the discipline.” In 1998, an endowment was also created for the center, to help realize the Board of Curator’s vision of a “self-sustaining and self-supporting” entity operating within the foundation.By 2003, the Archives for Family Practice had evolved into the principal resource center for the collection, conservation, exhibition and study of materials relating to the history of family medicine.