The campaign is rolling out special events for donors including exclusive parties and panels with Bill and Hillary Clinton. | Getty Clinton camp to pamper top fundraisers in Philly

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is rolling out the red carpet for its top fundraisers in Philadelphia next week — including exclusive parties and panels with Bill and Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and briefings from all of the senior campaign staff.

The special care and feeding of Clinton's top donors, according to the schedule obtained by POLITICO, underscores how the campaign is still relying on a traditional fundraising approach of big-dollar events and well-to-do bundlers, as opposed to the small-dollar online juggernauts that funded movement candidates like Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama.


The program of events also appears designed to contrast with the fear and loathing tone of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland; many of the panels touch on bringing people together, and receptions are held by minority groups supporting Clinton.

For the campaign’s finance committee — individuals who have raised more than $100,000 for the campaign — the exclusive Democratic National Convention program begins Sunday, with a welcome reception at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, hosted by Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook.

Eric Holder — along with Clinton’s senior policy advisers Jake Sullivan and Maya Harris — will participate in a panel on Monday about Clinton’s “plans to bring people together to tackle the big challenges facing the country.” The discussion will be followed by receptions hosted by the African-Americans for Hillary and the Latinos for Hillary finance councils.

On Tuesday morning, the campaign’s chief digital strategist Teddy Goff, along with other staffers, will host a discussion about the campaign’s online fundraising strategy. That will be followed by events hosted by the LGBT for Hillary finance council and the AAPI for Hillary finance council, according to the schedule.

On Tuesday, from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., finance committee members are invited to an exclusive party with Bill Clinton at Philadelphia's historic Reading Terminal Market.

Communications director Jennifer Palmieri, senior strategist Joel Benenson and director of opinion research Navin Nayak will brief donors Wednesday, with an “in-depth presentation and discussion on the campaign’s core messaging and polling.”

And on Thursday, the top group of bundlers will get more face time with Podesta and Mook, as well as finance director Dennis Cheng, who will give a presentation on the campaign’s path to 270 electoral votes.

The week of events ends Thursday night with an exclusive party with Hillary Clinton at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, after she gives her speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president.

Many finance committee members have been booked at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, one of the city’s luxury hotels, while others have chosen to stay with their state delegations around the city.