They raise funds for charity via things like Twestival, they solicit donations for catastrophe victims, they send word of upcoming events, they exchange titles of books they like.

他们通过一个叫Twestival的东西来筹集资金给慈善组织，他们为受灾难的人祈求善款，他们发布正在发生的事情，他们交流自己喜欢的书名。

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For example, a website may decide not to accept concepts, but rather insist that a product is a majority of the way completed before it allows for it to solicit funds through its portal.

举个例子，一个众筹网站很可能不接受概念，转而要求需以产品为主要的交付，方能通过该门户筹集资金。

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Mayor Ford used the city of Toronto logo and his status as city councilman to solicit funds for the football foundation.

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Our list of " America's Most (And Least) Efficient Charities" excludes colleges and other educational institutions for a simple reason: They generally don't solicit funds from the public at large but rather from their own alumni, who might not care much about things like excess fundraising costs, overhead and need.

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It is no longer possible for them to exploit the lack of transparency that has heretofore enabled their ilk to solicit funds from unsuspecting American investors in U.S. capital markets without disclosing where their companies, their parent firms and subsidiaries are doing business - and with whom.

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