Hopefully her views will coincide with mine, but even if not, I would be more positively disposed to her solicitation of my support.
I called or wrote to organizations my mom belonged to and their mailings ended quickly, but for several months my wife and I endured almost daily reminders of my mother's death: advertising letters welcoming her to her "new home," solicitations for charities, and readdressed mail order catalogs.
At their parting, as if on cue, a plainclothes officer tries to arrest her for solicitation.
Ms. Hardeman referred to her style of solicitation as "passive panhandling," involving little more than sitting quietly and letting her cardboard sign do the talking for her.
LIKE most people, Louise A. Underwood was used to getting frequent solicitations at her home in Orange, Calif., from just about every type of business, except maybe funeral homes and cemeteries.
Ginny Mancini gets lots of solicitations delivered to her Westwood home, thanks to her many decades of philanthropy.
She wants an advocate but is reluctant to respond to any of the solicitations that fill her mailbox.
Ms. Sandberg's project, according to members of her launch committee and their solicitations, asks little of the corporations signing on as "launch partners," which include American Express, Google, Sony, Johnson & Johnson and multiple media businesses.
"I remember one woman who had been in a cancer hospital here in San Diego, who was upset when she got a solicitation asking her to put the hospital in her will," Ms. Givens said, "and she wondered if they had used her medical information".
In the case of Ms. Lee's solicitations, only one person, her mother, made a donation, and she was not reimbursed, according to a letter to the judge from Ms. Hou's lawyer.
