Offer advice to, or solicit it from, other parents.
At least 15 of Mr. Obama's "bundlers" — supporters who contribute their own money to his campaign and solicit it from others — are involved in lobbying for Washington consulting shops or private companies.
Not far from this studio the other night, at a Manhattan fundraiser hosted by Jay-Z and Beyoncé, President Obama joked, "If somebody here has a $10 million check -- I can't solicit it from you, but feel free to use it wisely".
The LSE, widely criticised for the way it solicited funding from Libya, resulting in it being dubbed the "Libyan School of Economics", has launched an inquiry into the plagiarism and funding controversy.
A fund-raiser for John Kerry's presidential campaign has resigned, about two weeks after the campaign returned a $2,000 check he solicited because it came from the recently arrested son of a former South Korean president.
Elizabeth Blumenfeld, director of policy and business strategy for the Better Business Bureau Online, said it had spent considerable time on this issue as it solicited feedback from businesses, government representatives and consumer groups to develop the code.
It solicited proposals from developers for the first phase in September.
Over six months last year, it solicited ideas from experts in the field, as well as software developers.
Instead it solicited insights from 21 of America's best playwrights, artists equipped to write knowingly and movingly about the ways that plays and theater gave them a calling.
It solicited designs from architects like Stubbins, Polshek, Stern and Graves, with varying degrees ofsuccess.
