Sam Daley-Harris

Sam Daley-Harris is an American activist and author. He is the founder of Results, and has been a hunger eradication advocate and democracy activist since the mid-1970s. Daley-Harris is also the author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government.

Sam Daley-Harris
Occupation(s)Writer and activist
Known forFounding Results
Notable workReclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government

Early career

Early in his life, Sam Daley-Harris was a music teacher, and was a percussionist for the Miami Philharmonic.[1]

Activism

During the 1970s Daley-Harris became involved in the movement to eradicate global hunger. During this process he spoke with about seven thousand high-school students, at which time he discovered that only 3% of the youth knew the name of their congressperson. In response, he founded an organization called Results (stylized: RESULTS),[2] which is an acronym for "Responsibility for Ending Starvation Using Legislation, Trimtabbing, and Support".[3] After working with other anti-hunger organizations like Bread for the World,[4] he founded the organization in 1980, which recruited and trained volunteers to lobby the government on food security and hunger issues. Tactics have included sit-down meetings with politicians, generating supportive media, and letter writing campaigns.[5]

The organization has also[6] helped advocate for global vaccination campaigns with UNICEF, and worked in promoting micro-lending. Muhammad Yunus said of Results' work in micro-lending that, “No other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that micro-credit is used as a tool to eradicate poverty and empower women.”[7] Daley-Harris has also served as the director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign,[8][9] where he advocated for the role of microcredit in combating poverty.[10] The Microcredit Summit Campaign tracked the “performance” of microfinance organizations.[11]

He later founded the organization Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, which provides consultations to organizations on the subject of “deep advocacy”, a method of working with politicians and the media to fuel advocacy efforts for social issues.[2] The organization later changed its name to Civic Courage.[12] He has also worked with Citizens' Climate Lobby.[13][2][14]

Writing

Sam Daley-Harris is the author of the book Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, which at the end of the book outlines thirteen “principles of action”, and uses case-studies of successful advocacy to show evidence of their efficacy.[7] Many of the case-studies come from Daley-Harris’ work as the head of Results.[15] The original version was published in 1993, and a twentieth anniversary edition was published in 2013 with a foreword by Muhammad Yunus.[16] He is also the co-editor of the book New Pathways Out of Poverty.[17]

References
  1. Bornstein, David (29 May 2013). "Lobbying for the Greater Good".
  2. Bornstein, David (4 July 2017). "Opinion - Putting Citizenship Back in Congress". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  3. Counts, Alex (31 March 2008). Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470285275 – via Google Books.
  4. Simon, Arthur (16 March 2018). The Rising of Bread for the World: An Outcry of Citizens Against Hunger. Paulist Press. ISBN 9780809146000 – via Google Books.
  5. Holzberg, Janene. "Laurel grassroots advocates take on big change". The Baltimore Sun.
  6. Rosenberg, Tina (16 March 2018). "Opinion - From Protests Past, Lessons in What Works". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  7. Boyte, Harry (15 October 2013). "Reclaiming Our Democracy -- Lessons From the Trenches of Citizen Advocacy". HuffPost.
  8. "Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Micro-Loan Pioneers". news.nationalgeographic.com.
  9. Miller, Claire Cain. "Easy Money". Forbes.
  10. Arena, Christine (8 February 2011). Cause for Success: 10 Companies That Put Profit Second and Came in First. New World Library. ISBN 9781577319214 – via Google Books.
  11. Prasad, Anshuman; Prasad, Pushkala; Mills, Albert J.; Mills, Jean Helms (14 August 2015). The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. Routledge. ISBN 9781134511235 – via Google Books.
  12. Rosenberg, Tina (16 March 2018). "Opinion - A Year of Pushback to Save Social Innovation". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  13. Bornstein, David (19 May 2017). "Opinion - Cracking Washington's Gridlock to Save the Planet". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  14. Kristof, Nicholas (13 April 2017). "Opinion - How to Stand Up to Trump and Win". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  15. Dauncey, Guy (1 October 2009). The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming. New Society Publishers. ISBN 9781550924374 – via Google Books.
  16. "uprisingradio.org » Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government". uprisingradio.org.
  17. Daley-Harris, Sam; Awimbo, Anna (16 March 2018). New Pathways Out of Poverty. Kumarian Press. ISBN 9781565494381 – via Google Books.
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