Karl Rove, back when he was a provincial political operator, balanced his seasonal political business with a direct mail fund-raising consultancy for art museums and other cultural outfits.
The firm has denied any overcharging, and has a part of its Web site devoted to the "nuts and bolts" of direct mail fund-raising.
Another time, she handed me a stack of junk mail, fund-raising letters she had received from an outfit called the American Institute for Cancer Research.
Some of Mrs. Clinton's expenditures, including the more than $10 million for direct mail fund-raising solicitations, will pay off if she runs for president by giving her an expanded list of individual donors around the nation.
Besides the advertising expenditures, Mr. Lazio focused heavily on direct mail fund-raising solicitations, hoping to emulate Mr. Giuliani's extraordinary success in collecting donations from people around the country who dislike Mrs. Clinton.
In 2008, the organization hired Fund Raising Strategies, a fund raising specialist firm, to develop a direct mail fund raising program.
Once he was in control of the production of his program, he and his brother-in-law, Sam K. Pate, bought time for the program on local television stations in the East and then throughout the country; following the practice of Oral Roberts, Rex Humbard, and others, they set up a direct-mail funding operation to defray the costs of production and distribution.
The staff of committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., released documents saying that from 2004 to 2006, only 25% of the $168 million raised by the two charities ended up going to veterans, with the rest spent on direct-mail funding, administrative costs and "other expenses".
In the 1970s, conservatives pioneered direct-mail fund-raising.
Discusses direct-mail fund raising, at which the Republicans were most successful.
During this period, the council encountered difficulties with its direct-mail fund-raising system.
