Subject: Truman Board Call, 8/1 3pm ET
From: "Mike Breen" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, "Driscoll, John" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, "Peter Kovler" <[email-masked]>, "Sally Painter" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Sarah Bruno" <[email-masked]>, "Andrew Lavigne" <[email-masked]>, "Bridget Hatton" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:44:24 -0400

Dear Members of the Board,

Thank you all for your continued engagement and support of the Truman
National Security Project. Since our last board meeting it has been my
pleasure to speak with each of you about the direction of Truman and the
growth of our programs. In 2014, the Truman National Security Project will
continue to unite next-generation veteran, political, and policy leaders to
develop and advance strong, smart and principled solutions to the global
challenges Americans now face.

In order to achieve that mission, Truman must continue to *enhance and
expand our board of directors* in order to build a strong foundation of
financial support for our organization.

At our last meeting, we voted to add Suzy George as a new member of the
Board and discussed the importance of establishing new relationships to
help meet our annual fundraising goals while also building long-term
partnerships that will generate support for years to come. It is in that
spirit that we will *convene again by phone to add a new member to our
board of directors, Craig Hanson, whose bio is at the bottom of this e-mail*.
I've had the pleasure of getting to know Craig over the last few years in
his capacity as a Truman Fellow and I think he'd be a great addition. As a
venture capitalist and member of the President's National Finance
Committee, he's got the fundraising chops and some helpful Bay Area
connections.

We'd like to do a quick (5-10 min) call on *Friday, August 1 at 3:00pm
(EST).  *Please respond and let me know if you are able to join -- we need
a quorum in order to take a vote, so it is important that we have
participation. We will send around an official agenda and call-in info once
we confirm your availability.

In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact Sarah Bruno at
[email-masked] or 202.216.9723 x2315 if you have any questions.

Thank you again for your continued engagement and commitment to the Truman
National Security Project.

Respectfully,

Mike Breen

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*Michael Breen*Executive Director
Truman National Security Project & Center for National Policy

Office: 202.216.9723 x2325
Cell: 603.828.9550

www.TrumanProject.org <http://www.trumanproject.org> & www.CNPonline.org
<http://www.cnponline.org>

*Craig Hanson*

Craig Hanson has policy, analysis and management work experience at the
confluence of economic policy, foreign policy and national security. Craig
is a General Partner with Next World Capital (NWC), an international
technology venture capital firm where he manages the firm's investment
efforts in the U.S. and Europe via offices in San Francisco, Paris,
Brussels and London. NWC specializes in helping U.S. companies expand
internationally, and runs a business platform consisting of many of the
largest companies and top executives in Europe for the benefit of its
American companies. Craig also conducts independent research, analysis and
drafting of public-sector program ideas at the nexus of economic policy and
national security. As part of U.S. foreign economic policy in the Middle
East and North Africa, Craig has been an official member of U.S. State
Department delegations to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and a judge for
GIST at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Turkey. Through these and
other efforts, he works with government officials, policy experts and
business leaders in the U.S. and abroad to speak, mentor and advise on
economic growth, capital investment, trade, development and infrastructure.
He was also the Chair of the Silicon Valley Leadership Committee of Nuru
International, a social innovation non-profit providing holistic programs
to fight extreme poverty in the developing world. Craig is on the National
Finance Committee of Obama for America 2012 and the DNC, a National
Co-Chair of Technology for Obama, and founded and co-led the National
Security and Foreign Policy Forum for the Obama campaign. Previously, Craig
ran Silicon Valley for Kamala and was a member of the Transition Team for
Attorney General of California Kamala D. Harris where he advised on
technology policy. In 2011 Craig was named one of the top 40 Under 40
Leaders nationally by the New Leaders Council. He graduated from Carleton
College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan
Fellow and President of his class.

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*PS: We have a new address. *The Truman Project and the Center for National 
Policy have moved to a new space at 1250 I Street NW, Suite #500, 
Washington DC 20005. You're welcome to visit. And please update your 
address book