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.
Civic Courage, originally named the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, was founded to empower citizen action. They do so by teaching strategies to organizations so that their members can create champions in Congress and the media for their cause. 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:
The 2024 edition of his book Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen’s Guide to Transformational Advocacy was named an editor’s pick by Publishers Weekly BookLife. The book outlines thirteen “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 was a percussionist for the Miami Philharmonic
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Hugo Balta serves as the Director of Solutions Journalism & DEI Initiatives at The Fulcrum. He also serves as a board member of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund. An accredited solutions journalism trainer, Balta nurtures a newsroom culture that focuses coverage on responses to social issues as well as the problems themselves. The goal is to present the public with a truer, more complete view of complex challenges and opportunities, helping to drive more effective citizenship. The award-winning journalist has led newsrooms in multiple markets and platforms, including The Chicago Reporter, WBBM News Radio, Telemundo, NBC, CBS, and ESPN. Balta is the Publisher of the Latino News Network (LNN), overseeing seven local independent and national digital news outlets in the U.S. Balta is the only person to serve twice as President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). He was inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame in 2016. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches journalism courses focused on all aspects of newsroom collaboration in covering local news.
