In March of this year, a three-week donation drive held by Soshified raised US$33,500 for victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. With the announcement that Soshified would accept donations for the relief effort, members from all over the world began to fill the charity thread with 21 pages worth of contributions. In addition, several members put up signed items for auction with the proceeds also going towards the fund raising effort. All of the donations collected by Soshified were given to Peace Boat, an international non-profit organization based in Japan currently working to provide disaster relief to areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami. A complete summary of Soshified’s donation drive and a letter of thanks from Peace Boat can be found here.
On top of the US$33,500 donated by Soshified members, Peace Boat also received an additional US$12,000 from the “Google Gift Matching Program” thanks to the efforts of a Soshified Project Leader. The “Google Gift Matching Program” matched US$12,000 of donations, resulting in a grand total of $45,500 being donated to Peace Boat through Soshified’s fundraising. In the letter pictured above, a Peace Boat representative confirmed that two $6,000 checks were received by Peace Boat in mid-November of this year.
Since its founding in 2008, Soshified has been involved in numerous charity projects and to date has donated over $60,000 to various causes. All of Soshified’s charity efforts can be found in the Soshified Sowon Foundation forum.
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Great! Thanks Soshified ~ Im proud ! SOSHIFIED Hwaiting~
Well Done~
Lets pray for them~
THIS is what being a Fansite is all about! Gathering all these people in doing good AND supporting the fandom! Soshi would be proud of Soshified!
I’m so proud to be a part of soshified. and I wish I can involve in further donation held by soshified ^^
if there wasn’t soshified then there wouldn’t be money for Japan
Yay Soshi! Yay Soshified! Yay us! ^^
I’ve never, ever been to another forum that cared so much for the plight of other people. In fact, I’ve never been to another forum that did anything besides spazz about whatever they were founded for. (Maybe it’s the forums I visit but…)
Either way, proud to be a Sone, proud to be part of Soshified! ^^
Keep up the good work guys!
soshified is indeed the most caring snsd international forum that I have been to..
the staff always have a heart to help the people in need when the time calls for it..
proud to be a member of the best snsd international forum!
SOSHIFIED JJANG!!
this is the sincerest form of flattery from
the girls’ perspective. it is kind gestures
like this, in the name of those girls who
have done so many kind things for us, that
they cherish the most. this act of charity
was tremendous strength at a time when
the people of japan were feeling their
weakest. a feeling we too struggle with,
that the girls then help us recover from.
great job! not only in performing this sincere
act, but, through example, motivating others
to do the same thing.
SO HAPPY FOR THEM/ yep will definitely do my best to donate the next time around…always supporting such efforts! soshi fighting!
so proud…its a real good way to spread the soshi luv ^^ cant think of a better way..thanks so much ssf ^^ jigumen so nyuh shi dae
ONLY SOSHIFIED! One of the best SNSD fan forum and I’m proud to be a member of. So awesome of SSF members doing this in the goodness of their hearts and in honor of SNSD. The girls will be extremely proud of all y’all. I hope this will help a lot with getting back on their feet in Japan. God bless! :D
ohhhh I thank everyone who donated and the whole site.
I like seeing results of the stuff soshified does :)
whoa.. so they received additional $12000 from Google Gift Matching Program?
that’s great. hope this will help more affected people in Japan.
Good Job Soshified!