Subject: TIMELY: Send to your Comms. Team: Affleck, Stavridis and Gates on Capitol Hill
From: "Liz.Schrayer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:35:58 -0400

Dear USGLC Board,

Please forward this timely note to your Communications Team. And if you tweet, please join in.

Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., Bill Gates, Ben Affleck, and USGLC's National Security Advisory Council Co-Chair Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) are testifying on Capitol Hill before Senator Lindsay Graham's Subcommittee on the importance of development and diplomacy.

*  We're hoping to create some buzz on Twitter leading up to the testimony and hope you can help by joining the conversation using the hashtag #smartpower.

*  You can tune in to the livestream tomorrow morning on the Appropriations Committee website here<http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/subcommittee/state-foreign-operations-and-related-programs>.

*  Key handles include: @USGLC<https://twitter.com/USGLC>; @BenAffleck<https://twitter.com/BenAffleck>; @Stavridisj<https://twitter.com/stavridisj>; @BillGates<https://twitter.com/BillGates>; @GrahamBlog<https://twitter.com/GrahamBlog>

*  Sample tweets below

If you have any questions, contact Joy Ross, Deputy Communications Director, at [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> or (202) 730-4179.

Many thanks.

Liz

Liz Schrayer
President & CEO, USGLC

Sample Tweets for Today

*  Tomorrow, @BillGates, @BenAffleck, and @StavridisJ head to Capitol Hill to try to amplify why #smartpower & foreign assistance help America

*  Tomorrow at 10 am, tune into @BillGates, @BenAffleck, and @StavridisJ testifying on why #smartpower is key to US security, economy

Sample Tweets for Tomorrow

*  Today on Capitol Hill: @BillGates, @USGLC's Adm. @StavridisJ, and @BenAffleck will defend dev and diplomacy in the Senate

*  Great point from @USGLC<https://twitter.com/USGLC>'s Adm. @stavridisj<https://twitter.com/stavridisj> on importance of foreign assistance to protecting US nat security. #smartpower