The halls and showcases of SOFII

Consider the halls of SOFII akin to the themed halls of a museum or art gallery. Each hall focuses on a specific segment of the world of fundraising. As SOFII grows, so will the museum. If you have suggestions for a themed hall, please let us know.

Hall 1: the hall of excellence and enterprise

iconIn this hall SOFII features a range of showcases that cover truly outstanding individuals, organisations, campaigns and promotions from the colourful world of fundraising. If you are searching for the cream, you’ve just found it. Some of the exhibits here are older than dirt and quite a few are weird and wacky as well as wonderful, but in their time and their unique way all have aspired to push forward the boundaries of fundraising. You can judge for yourself how successful they have been. And might still be, if carefully adapted.

Showcases in this hall:

  • The ‘best of the best’ showcase
  • Hall 1: the hall of excellence and enterprise
  • The great and the good showcase
  • Most inspirational fundraising of all time showcase
  • Fine writing for fundraising
  • Best fundraising products showcase
  • All our yesterdays: the fundraising archive showcase

>> Visit this hall.


Hall 2: ‘donors first’

iconWhat would fundraising be without donors? And what would SOFII be without a special hall devoted to nurturing and developing donor relationships? Within this special space SOFII has selected and assembled a glittering array of specialist showcases in which we display a treasure trove of examples of the art and science of donor relationship development.

Showcases in this hall:
  • The welcome pack showcase
  • The thank-you showcase
  • The stewardship showcase
  • Best donor recruitment initiatives showcase
  • Inexpensive donor involvement ideas showcase
  • Low-cost donor recruitment showcase
  • Stemming donor attrition showcase
  • Celebrating the donor

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Hall 3: the main methods of fundraising

Right next door to the hall of the individual donor, this hall is home to a collection of showcases that focus on the main different fundraising methods for acquisition and development that are available to fundraisers.

Showcases in this hall:

  • The membership showcase
  • Multi–media (multi-channel) campaign showcase
  • New media and technology showcase
  • Publications showcase
  • Event fundraising showcase
  • Capital campaigns showcase
  • Corporate and commercial fundraising showcase
  • Combining campaigning and fundraising showcase
  • Social change campaigns showcase
  • Cause-related marketing showcase
  • Foundations and trusts
  • Emergency Fundraising showcase
  • Arts and education sector showcase
  • Charity brand development showcase
  • Formats, offers, propositions and products showcase
  • Excellence in communications showcase
  • Use of data showcase

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Hall 4: the hall of the individual donor

Here, SOFII celebrates the power of the individual. Around 85 per cent of all voluntary giving comes from individuals, which makes one wonder why fundraisers spend so much effort chasing corporate donors, does it not? Individual giving itself divides into many specific areas, each of them important, direct mail, telephone, major donors, inserts, committed giving, face-to-face, electronic/new media, off-the-page, television and door-drops.

Showcases in this hall:

  • Direct mail showcase
  • The Jerry Huntsinger tutorials
  • Major donor fundraising

  • Electronic fundraising

  • Telephone fundraising

  • Face-to-face fundraising showcase
  • Door-drops/household deliveries

  • Press advertising ‘off the page’

  • Inserts and bounce-backs

  • Broadcast media

  • Web-based fundraising

  • Regular, or committed, giving

  • Last chance to change the world: the legacies (bequests) showcase

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Hall 5: SOFII interactive

iconIn this section fundraisers will find encouragement and opportunities to help improve the content of SOFII, by spreading their ideas, airing their views, sharing their thoughts and voting on what they like most – and least – on SOFII. This is also where you can get involved yourself, and make SOFII even better for fundraisers everywhere.

Showcases in this hall:
  • Shout out on SOFII
  • Help out with SOFII
  • Have your say

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Hall 6: SOFII services

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This hall is an information point for all SOFII users. Packed full of useful information about SOFII staff members, guidance on how to use the new website and how to find your way around, it’s essential viewing for anyone who wants to make the most of their SOFII experience.

Showcases in this hall:

  • How SOFII works
  • More services

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Hall 7: SOFII’s homeless hall

iconSOFII is in the process of listing the major fundraising campaigns and initiatives that it knows of but hasn’t yet had entries for. That way, we can make a start on collecting them all. Help us by letting us know what exhibits you would most like to see on the site. Contact Carolina.

Showcases in this hall:
  • The lost and found showcase
  • How did that happen?

>> Visit this hall.


 

SOFII translated

Thanks to our great volunteers, SOFII can now offer you a selection of exhibits translated into French, Portuguese and Italian. Why not help us reach more people by translating exhibits into your language. it’s easy, just get in touch and we'll walk you through the process. 

Showcases in this hall:

 

  • SOFII in French
  • SOFII in Italian
  • SOFII in Portuguese
  • SOFII in Spanish

>> Visit this hall.


SOFII’s Reading rooms

In addition to our hundreds of exhibits, we also have hundreds of helpful articles organised into very useful Reading rooms.

Thank you

SOFII gratefully acknowledges the generous and catalytic support of the Joffe Foundation, UK, which has made possible SOFII's growth and development to date.

'My Trust is delighted with its investment in SOFII. We are very pleased that we have been able to be of assistance in the launch of this important initiative.'
Lord Joel Joffe.

About SOFII

SOFII is supervised by The SOFII Foundation, a registered charity in the UK, No 1124743.

SOFII’s development director is Sue Kershaw. She can be reached at sue@sofii.org

'We love SOFII. Next year we hope to help again.' 
Lynne, HMA, Vancouver.

© The SOFII Foundation 2010. http://www.sofii.org.

 

 

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