Most people see working to end global poverty and ensure a stable climate as a fools errand. Add to that the Citizens United decision and the flood of money rushing into politics and the despair grows deeper. But activist and author Sam Daley-Harris has helped thousands of ordinary citizens transform from hopelessness into extraordinarily powerful advocates. In the 20th anniversary edition of Reclaiming Our Democracy released in the fall of 2013, Daley-Harris shares how he and the citizen advocacy organizations he has founded (RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campaign) or coached (Citizens Climate Lobby) have been leading change-makers in three global movements: 1) microfinance, 2) child survival, and 3) climate change. 

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus says the following in his foreword to the new edition: "The courage this book shows us how to unleash is our only hope to save creation for our grandchildren and for theirs."  

Ashoka founder Bill Drayton has called Daley-Harris, one of the certified great social entrepreneurs of the last decades."  

David Bornstein in his May 29, 2013 Fixes column in the NY Times wrote the following about Daley-Harris work: We dont often hear stories like thisstories about ordinary citizens working powerfully side by side with elected officialsparticularly citizens who dont come bearing campaign checks.  Thats why its important to understand how these changes were achieved and how much more may be possible than most citizens imagine. 

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