Our team

Sam Daley-Harris, CEO and Founder

In 1980 Sam Daley-Harris founded RESULTS, a citizen lobby committed to creating the
political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and RESULTS Educational
Fund, an organization focused on creating the will to end hunger and the worst aspects
of poverty. Daley-Harris also co-founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign in 1995
with FINCA founder John Hatch and Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus.

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. Twenty years after that conference call Prof. Yunus said: “From
that day in 1987 when RESULTS arranged for me to talk by conference call to editorial
writers in dozens of US cities, to the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006,
no other organization has done more to put Grameen Bank on the map than RESULTS
and RESULTS Educational Fund's Microcredit Summit Campaign. More importantly,
no other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that microcredit is
used as a tool to eradicate poverty and empower women than RESULTS and RESULTS
Educational Fund's Microcredit Summit Campaign."

Daley-Harris led in organizing the February 1997 Microcredit Summit held in
Washington, DC. The Summit was attended by more than 2,900 delegates from 137
countries and launched a campaign to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families,
especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other
financial and business services by 2005. At that first Summit then-US First Lady
Hillary Clinton said, "I am thrilled to see such a turnout for this Summit which is one
of the most important gatherings we could have anywhere in our world." Under
Daley-Harris' leadership the Microcredit Summit Campaign goal of reaching 100 million
of the world’s poorest families was surpassed in 2007.

Daley-Harris is also author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between
People and Government, which is the story of RESULTS.  Writing about the book President
Jimmy Carter said, "[Daley-Harris] provides a road map for global involvement in planning a
better future."

“After dedicating 15 years of my life to RESULTS and about the same to the Microcredit
Summit Campaign it felt like it was time to look to what was next,” Daley-Harris
said in 2011. “So I asked myself this question, ‘What have I done that lights me up the most
and yet is least adopted, least realized in the world?'  It was obvious that that was my
work to create structures of support that would inspire and empower citizens and allow
them to create champions in the media and in Congress for the end of poverty,
cleaning up the environment and forwarding peace. I want to bring the work we initiated at RESULTS to
other organizations through the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation.”

Daley-Harris received The Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute
of Noetic Sciences (1995), the Caring Award from the Caring Institute (1997), the
Innovator Award from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young
University (2003), the Elliott Black Award from the American Ethical Union (2003),
and the Susan M. Davis Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grameen Foundation
(2007).

“It is important to realize that when RESULTS started lobbying on child survival issues
in 1984 UNICEF estimated that 41,000 children died every day from largely preventable
malnutrition and disease,” said RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter. “Today
that figure is 24,000 a day. When RESULTS started its lobbying work on basic
education, UNESCO estimated that globally 150 million children were not in primary
school. Today that figure is below 70 million. When RESULTS started lobbying on
microfinance in 1986 fewer than 1 million of the very poor around the world had access
to a microloan. Today more than 128 million do. RESULTS’ advocacy had a role in that
change and Sam Daley-Harris played a leading role in launching that advocacy.”

Daley-Harris’ last act with the Campaign will be to organize the Global Microcredit
Summit, November 14-17, 2011 in Valladolid, Spain where more than 2,000 delegates
from over 100 countries are expected to gather. One of the issues to be discussed in
Spain is the creation of a Seal of Excellence for Poverty Outreach and Transformation in
Microfinance initiated by Daley-Harris in April of 2010.

In 2010, Ashoka founder Bill Drayton wrote, “Sam Daley-Harris is one of the certified
great social entrepreneurs of the last decades. After building RESULTS, he is the person
more than anyone else who has brought microcredit into focus across the world and
precipitated action. One of his mechanisms has been a series of global microcredit
summits. I think these are the first such UN-like events not run by the UN, or by any
government for that matter.”