Sam Daley-Harris founded the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS in 1980, co-founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign in 1995 and founded Civic Courage in 2012.
Originally named the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, Civic Courage was founded to empower citizen action. It does so by teaching strategies to organizations so their members can create champions, in Congress and the media, for their causes. RESULTS has become known for its creative strategies for empowering grassroots citizen action. In 1987, RESULTS volunteers were able to gather editorial writers from 28 U.S. cities on a conference call with Muhammad Yunus, 19 years before he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
The 2024 edition of Daley-Harris’ book “Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen’s Guide to Transformational Advocacy” was named an editor’s pick by Publishers Weekly BookLife. The book outlines 13 “principles of action” and uses case studies of successful advocacy to show evidence of their efficacy. Many of the case studies come from Daley-Harris’ work as the head of RESULTS. The original version was published in 1993,
He is also the co-editor of the book “New Pathways Out of Poverty.”
Early in his life, Sam Daley-Harris was a music teacher and a percussionist for the Miami Philharmonic.
I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Daley-Harris a couple of weeks ago for the CityBiz “Meet the Change Leaders” series. Watch to learn the full extent of his democracy reform work:
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Balta is director of solutions journalism and DEI initiatives for The Fulcrum and a board member of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund, the parent organization of The Fulcrum. He is publisher of the Latino News Network and a trainer with the Solutions Journalism Network.
