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
OccupationWriter and activist
Known forFounding Results
Notable work
Reclaiming 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. "Lobbying for the Greater Good".
  2. Bornstein, David (4 July 2017). "Opinion - Putting Citizenship Back in Congress" 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" via NYTimes.com.
  7. Boyte, Harry (15 October 2013). "Reclaiming Our Democracy -- Lessons From the Trenches of Citizen Advocacy".
  8. "Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Micro-Loan Pioneers". news.nationalgeographic.com.
  9. Miller, Claire Cain. "Easy Money".
  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" via NYTimes.com.
  13. Bornstein, David (19 May 2017). "Opinion - Cracking Washington's Gridlock to Save the Planet" via NYTimes.com.
  14. Kristof, Nicholas (13 April 2017). "Opinion - How to Stand Up to Trump and Win" 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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