Most initiatives to build digital preservation programs focus almost exclusively on technical issues: hardware, software, and information architecture. Our panel will instead discuss the organizational, functional, and staff-related questions that needed to be answered in order for three archives at international multilateral organizations to evolve their programs to support digital records. A significant portion of the panel will be dedicated to comparing and contrasting our challenges, approaches, and successes.Keywords – digital preservation, capacity planning, organizational issues, leveraging expertise, international organizations