A Bet on Clinton - If They Network, She Will Run - NYTimes.com Drew Angerer for The New York Times Conor Sullivan, left, Joe Kon and Dana Marks, interns at the Ready for Hillary office in Alexandria, Va., stuffed envelopes Friday. The group has received more than 65,000 orders for bumper stickers, a spokesman said. A new group dedicated to paving the way for a Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 has already recruited dozens of the Democratic Party's elite donors and bundlers, effectively kicking off the presidential money hunt more than three years before Election Day. The group, Ready for Hillary, is aiming to build Mrs. Clinton a grass-roots network that would give her a prohibitive edge in any Democratic primary and a significant advantage over potential Republican rivals, channeling enthusiasm for Mrs. Clinton, a former first lady and New York senator, into Facebook hits, Twitter followers and affinity groups around the country. But the group's early cash haul and cultivation of a high-powered donor network underscores how presidential campaigns have continued to evolve - and lengthen - in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The donors joining Ready for Hillary's finance committee are likely to figure prominently in any future campaign fund-raising by Mrs. Clinton or future advertising-oriented "super PACs" backing her. Disclosure reports due to be filed with the Federal Election Commission this week, and provided to The New York Times, will show more than a million dollars raised since the group began fund-raising in earnest this spring. "One of the purposes is to show what we think is the very broad and deep support for her," said Harold M. Ickes, a former White House aide who is advising Ready for Hillary. And if she decides to run, then within the confines of the law, these names and e-mail addresses would be given to the campaign. Already, the super PAC is becoming a platform around which veterans of President Obama's record-breaking campaign-finance operation are jockeying for position within Mrs. Clinton's future orbit. Last month, Michael Kempner, a New Jersey public relations executive who was among the top bundlers in the country for Mr. Obama, hosted a prospecting breakfast for the new group. More than a dozen of Mr. Obama's bundlers from 2012, accounting for more than $3 million in contributions, are backing Ready for Hillary, as is Dennis Mehiel, a New York businessmen who is close to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a potential 2016 candidate. The group was initially viewed skeptically by Mrs. Clinton's inner circle. But as Ready for Hillary drew news-media attention, some around the Clintons concluded that the group's fortunes would inevitably reflect on Mrs. Clinton herself. In the months since its founding by a volunteer and a former junior staff member for Mrs. Clinton's 2008 campaign, Ready for Hillary has hired five full-time staff members and contracted with a consulting firm whose co-founder was Mr. Obama's 2012 field director. Several old Clinton hands are advising the group, including Craig Smith, a former White House political director. Ellen Tauscher, a former California congresswoman who worked for Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, is serving as a strategic adviser to the group; the two women met for dinner last month near the Clintons" home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said Mrs. Clinton was not coordinating with the group. "Their energy and enthusiasm to convince her to run is inspiring, though only she in the end can make that very personal decision," Mr. Merrill said. While the group is limiting donations to $25,000 for now, it is ramping up fund-raising just as other Democratic super PACs, as well as President Obama's political operation, seek to raise money to defend the Democratic majority in the Senate next year. Many potential donors are also weighing appeals from Mrs. Clinton and her husband, who are trying to raise a large endowment for their family foundation. Others in the Clinton orbit say they have been encouraged to support Terry McAuliffe's campaign for governor of Virginia. Ready for Hillary has also recruited some of the wealthy givers who helped finance more than $100 million in Democratic super PAC spending in 2012. They include Winthrop McCormack, an Oregon publishing executive; Agnes Gund, the New York arts philanthropist; and Irwin Jacobs, a telecommunications executive who gave more than $2 million to a pro-Obama super PAC last year. Unlike many of the outsize super PACs formed in recent years to wage expensive advertising campaigns, Ready for Hillary is trying to build a list of enthusiastic volunteers and repeat small donors, emulating the model that proved to be Mr. Obama's most significant strategic advantage in battling an onslaught of Republican outside groups last year. The group has received more than 3,625 contributions of exactly $20.16 each. As a super PAC, Ready for Hillary can harness unlimited dollars for its efforts. Mrs. Clinton would be legally permitted to buy or rent the group's lists of donors and volunteers for a future campaign. Donors and political consultants with ties to the Clintons said the super PAC could deliver to Mrs. Clinton some of the benefits of a full-time political organization without the headaches. But for now, the Clintons appear to be keeping their distance. "It's what we call complete and total deep radio silence," Mr. Ickes said. Jonathan Martin contributed reporting.