February 12, 2009
Conservative Groups Turn to Grass-Roots Efforts to Seek New Donors
Fund raising is particularly thorny for conservative groups because many of their contributors are either elderly people living on fixed incomes or stock dividends, or members of financial firms — all people who have suffered in the recession.
For instance, the Heritage Foundation, a think tank in Washington, reports that the average age of its donors is 72.
What's more, says James Piereson, president of the William E. Simon Foundation, in New York, if the
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