Members of Congress crammed more than 20 fundraisers into the last day of the quarter on Wednesday, according to invitations obtained by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation.
The cash demands of campaigning never far away, Romney worked two fundraisers into the schedule for his first day in Tampa on Tuesday, while Ann Romney and Ryan both popped out new email appeals for campaign contributions.
So here's how my month of experience as a non-accelerator, non-American fundraiser translates into advice.
Jeb Bush, the field's top fundraiser, goes into the debate after several high-profile gaffes.
Last week, according to a report in the Washington Post, he called into a fundraiser in Washington that sought to raise $100,000 for Trump.
-- On the morning of Aug. 30, Sheelah Kolhatkar, a features editor and national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek, made her way into a breakfast fundraiser in Tampa, Fla. Karl Rove was speaking candidly to 70 top Republican donors about the mother's milk of American politics -- money.
On Saturday, September 20, The Anne Douglas Center presents an arts fundraiser called "Turning Wounds Into Light," to benefit its burgeoning arts curriculum.
The Michael J Fox Foundation has become the leading Parkinson's fundraiser in the US, putting $140m into research over the last eight years.
To do this, Gigawatt helps fundraisers tap into their network and make every crowdfunding campaign a "blitz" by limiting the duration of campaigns to 24-hour cycles.
According to Facebook, fundraisers' integration into Safety Check will allow people to both create and donate to charitable and personal causes to help those in need, in the wake of a crisis.
