CASH DONATIONS:

The IISOH is seeking $1 million (one million Dollars) from a benefactor in order to establish an endowment for the sport of SOCCER. This is a naming opportunity for the benefactor to have a perpetual identification with the sport of SOCCER. The endowment would be named by the benefactor with the approval of the IISOH Board of Directors. The endowment becomes a permanent trust fund invested by the Institute with only the quarterly earned interest being used for development of the SOCCER collections in both the Library and Museum.
Cash donations IN ANY AMOUNT are always welcome, too.

For more details about the endowment program, please click hereEndowment Program.

NON-CASH DONATIONS:

The Library and Museum eagerly accept donations of material that are within the scope of its collections. Collectors are encouraged to send us books, monographs, theses & dissertations, magazine and subscription collections for the library, as well as medals, pins, torches, posters, artwork and collectables for the Museum.

LIBRARY donations:

• Material in ANY language, including but not limited to English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Flemish, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Latin, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Farsi, Sanskrit and dozens of others.
  The scope of the collection is international and comprehensive.
  
• Books
• Monographs
• Theses & Dissertations
• Bound and unbound serials (magazines, journals, etc)
• Newspapers (hard copies or microfilm)
• Juvenile literature
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Reference books
• Manuscripts
• Archives of organizations
• Original letters of correspondance
• Maps
• Ephemera (pamphlets, booklets, folders, flyers, tickets, etc).
• Miscellaneous items that do not fit into the above categories
  

MUSEUM donations:

• Soccer Posters
• Antique Soccer equipment
• Statuary in bronze, resin, plaster, terracotta, etc.
• Paintings, Serigraphs, Drawings, etc.
• Photographs, prints, negatives, glass plates, etc.
• Films, movies, videos, dvd's, especially older films in need of archival preservation
• Music, records, tapes, sheet music
• Graphics, 16th - 19th century lithographs & prints
• Soccer-related medals, awards, trophies
• Soccer commemorative medals, participation medals, badges, etc.
• Soccer pins
• Soccer flags, banners, advertising
• Soccer-related memorabilia
• Philatelic items, stamp collections, illustrated postcards on Soccer
• Numismatic items, coins, exonumia with Soccer themes
• Uniforms, clothing, textiles, fashions
• Physical education, recreation and play equipment related to Soccer
• Games, especially antique items

These lists are not comprehensive and are limited only by your imagination! Keep in mind that Soccer is an international sport and that we seek everything, in every language, in order to develop the most comprehensive collection in the world. Actually, SOCCER is only known by this name in the United States because the rest of the world calls this sport FOOTBALL. Americans sometimes refer to this sport as European Football.

The Institute's long-term goal is to become the most comprehensive collection in the world, so visit us often over the next ten decades.

Contact:
International Institute for Sport and Olympic History
(IISOH)
PO Box 175
State College, PA, USA 16804

Mr. Harvey Abrams, President

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