Word: solicitousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Join a phonathon and get paid to solicit alumni for contributions. Radcliffe, Harvard College and Harvard Law School (HLS) all hire undergraduates to do phone work for their fundraising campaigns...
...YORK: It's the gift that keeps on giving: Ted Turner is not just donating $1 billion to the United Nations, he's planning to solicit more huge charitable contributions from his moneyed peers. The CNN founder and vice chairman of Time Warner (which owns TIME) brought tears to the eyes of wife Jane Fonda when he announced the gargantuan gift ? which he will make in 10 annual payments of $100 million in Time Warner stock ? to support programs such as UNICEF, peace-keeping missions and a land-mine cleanup...
...welfare departments are starting up innovative partnerships with religious institutions. And a little-noticed provision in last year's welfare-reform law called "charitable choice" has opened the door for the nation's 260,000 religious congregations to take a far greater role in welfare programs: they can now solicit government funds directly rather than set up charitable subsidiaries. Supporters say the spirituality and fellowship offered by churches, combined with their community ties, provide the best hope yet of permanently turning around the lives of the poor. But critics say the new programs threaten to tear down the wall between...
...from the Clinton-Gore campaign, which, he said, "checked every check." Today, internal memos revealed an extensive effort by Gore's staff to schedule time for him to make phone calls seeking donations from his desk near the Oval Office. While it's illegal for federal employees to solicit money in federal buildings, Gore maintains he was not subject to that restriction. Meanwhile, Common Cause points out Republican Party committees received $23.1 million in soft money this year, out-raising the Democrats by 2 to 1. Democratic Party committees took in $11.2 million. Both numbers are drastically higher than figures...
While at Microsoft this summer, Stephens planned to solicit Bill Gates for computer donations for his PBHA students...