Dear friend,
If you’re receiving this letter, chances are you want to make a positive change in the world. What better time than the holidays to do so? I’m sure your inbox is brimming with requests to sponsor a child’s schooling, build a roof over a family’s head, or treat a life-threatening illness. What if I told you that same gift can instead help enroll thousands of children in school by transforming a country’s education system, bring electricity to millions of poor people who live each day without it, create high-performing hospitals to accommodate a myriad of disease in low-income countries—and so much more?
The Center for Global Development’s friends and supporters have for a long time understood the value of leveraging policy change. While other organizations focus on direct assistance or advocate for specific causes, CGD maintains a track record of being at the forefront of practical ideas that change policies to the benefit of the world’s poor. We work behind the scenes to make a difference. From data-driven solutions in trade, global health, food security, private investment, and more, what we do to make that difference depends on the support of people like you.
By joining the 2015 CGD Society with a check, wire transfer, or secure credit card transaction online, you will help us push for smarter policy ideas to promote development. Society members are among CGD’s most active participants and encouraging supporters. You will be an exclusive insider in CGD’s work, enjoying preferred access to our hundreds of events in Washington and London and receiving complimentary copies of our publications.
Society members will also help turn CGD’s ambitious policy ideas into action in 2015. Here's a preview of our agenda for next year:
- Bringing together the best approaches, ideas, and policy solutions in a new CGD series on women’s empowerment, which will include new work on trade agreements for women’s labor participation and analysis of which interventions most help female entrepreneurs thrive.
- Shaping the post-2015 development goals to offer ways the world’s most comprehensive development agenda can back up intentions and commitments with meaningful impact.
- Furthering CGD’s cutting-edge research and policy ideas with publications on tropical forests and climate change, success stories in global health interventions, direct distribution of oil revenues for a “social contract” in resource-rich countries, and a practical, aggressive development agenda for the next US administration in 2016.
By working to change policies, CGD is changing the world. With your support and interest, you can help us put innovative development ideas on the US and global agenda to reduce global poverty and inequality. I hope you’ll be a part of CGD’s efforts and join the CGD Society today.
Season's best,
Nancy Birdsall President Center for Global Development
P.S. Looking for bigger and better ways to support CGD? Visit our Contribute page for more options, share this letter with your friends and family, invite your company to join the Partners Council, or become a Legacy donor today. For more information, please contact Anna Moran at development@cgdev.org or (202) 416-4049.