TEDxNJLibraries - Sam Daley-Harris - Poverty, Purpose, Pitfalls, and Redemption

Sam Daley-Harris - Poverty, Purpose, Pitfalls, and Redemption

Sam Daley-Harris is founder of RESULTS, an international citizens' lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end poverty. Daley-Harris is also founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign which surpassed its initial goal of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest families in 2007. That same year Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus said: "....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 is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, about which Jimmy Carter said, "[Daley-Harris] provides a road map for global involvement in planning a better future." 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."

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[gberke]

An excellent teaching.

I love the way he has quoted others: carefully, and even repeating the words.

[ruthgree99]

Sam is someone who can teach anyone how to change the world for good...show us how small heartfelt actions and conversations can mean that fewer children will die, fewer will go hungry. I have known Sam since almost the beginning of RESULTS and the work we did as citizen lobbyists is where I first felt like I made a lasting positive difference in the lives of many--and time has shown how right he is about empowering us to empower others to end poverty through microcredit and how much we can a

[janiehh]

I feel extremely blessed to have seen Sam deliver this talk in person at TEDxNJLibraries. His passion inspired everyone in the audience and his ability to weave together stories and quotes to keep his talk moving was an example of public speaking at it's best. Thank you Sam for coming to Princeton to speak at TEDxNJLibraries.

[mmcpdiddy]

great job sam!  from the folks at kiva :)

[cockykid12345]

One of the first steps in creating the will to end poverty is to believe that it is possible. Sam Daly-Harris is a voice for this potential. Thank you Sam. May we all join our voices together to end poverty in the spirit of redemption.

[rallen1004]

Poverty isolates and belittles and affects us all. Through RESULTS, Sam offers a chance to make a real impact in the world.

What if it really is possible to end hunger and poverty and make millions of lives better -- and nobody bothers to do it?

[krampatt]

Great piece on finding one's purpose and redemption in life. Excellent historical on RESULTS, Sam's life, the history of microfinance with Grameen Bank. I love the insertion of the spiritual crisis facing Dr. Yunus as he got started. Doesn't it face all of us--question is, will we pay attention and address our personal crises? Thanks Sam!