Subject: CSIS Development Council: Monday's Launch Activities
From: "Lauren Bieniek" <[email-masked]>
To: "Lauren Bieniek" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Johanna Nesseth" <[email-masked]>, "Daniel Runde" <[email-masked]>, "Conor Savoy" <[email-masked]>, "Anna Saito Carson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 20:25:15 +0000

Dear Council Members and Colleagues,

We are looking forward to an exciting day of launch activities for the final Development Council report this Monday, March 4!

Copies of the report came back from the printer yesterday, and we are really excited to share them with everyone. We are expecting a full house at the public launch event, and expect key leaders from several government agencies - including the MCC, USAID, OPIC, and USTDA - as well as private companies and NGOs at the dinner later that evening.

We understand that a number of you won't be able to join us for these activities, but we are extremely enthusiastic about getting everyone involved with this roll-out - no matter where you are on Monday. Your work over the past year has been truly remarkable, and the diversity and strength of so many different perspectives is really going to resonate.

Please see below a few ways in which you can engage with us in our outreach efforts next week:

1.      Watch the event live: We will be webcasting the event from 1:00pm-5:00pm EST here: http://www.ustream.tv/csis. We hope you will be able to tune in for some - or all - of the event! A complete agenda is attached. If you are unable to watch live, you will be able to view the full video afterward here: http://csis.org/event/our-shared-opportunity-vision-global-prosperity.

2.      Promote the launch and the report with your Twitter followers: Many of you are active Twitter users, and we hope to leverage all of your followings. Find below sample tweets that you can use and edit to promote the launch of the report, and look out for tweets from @CSIS_USLD<https://twitter.com/csis_usld>!

3.      Share copies of the report: Let us know how many copies of the report you would like and we will happily mail them to you.

4.      Share our Council video: We have assembled video interviews of many of you into a beautiful video, which we will send next week and hope you will share.

We plan to follow up after Monday's events regarding our planned extensive outreach efforts to ensure that this report does not result in a "thud"!

All the best,
Lauren

Lauren Bieniek
Program Manager & Research Assistant
Project on U.S. Leadership in Development
CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K Street, NW | Washington, DC 20006
[email-masked]<[email-masked] > | 202.775.3236<tel:202.775.3236>

Sample Tweets:

3/4: @CSIS_USLD to host launch of new report calling gov't 2 better leverage private sector in #development #CSISLive http://cs.is/SharedOpp

WATCH: @CSIS_USLD urges gov't to use blend of business, trade, aid, & investment 4 #development in new report #CSISLive http://cs.is/SharedOp