[5] While in Bucharest Dako, together with Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, founded Qarku i studentëvet shqiptarë (Circle of Albanian students) in 1899.

By March 1902 this had become the Shpresa (Hope) Society consisting of young nationalists that aimed to enlighten Albanians on the national question.

[8] Dako returned shortly in Albania in June 1911, right in the middle of the Albanian Revolt of 1911, together with Charles Richard Crane of Chicago.

He was released with Crane's intervention, and his persecutor Şevket Turgut Pasha immediately removed from the Ottoman authorities.

In 1916, he published the short-lived (8 issues) newspaper Biblioteka Zeri i Shqiperise ("Voice of Albania Library") in Southbrigde, MA.

[12] One of Dako's most significant achievements was founding the Kyrias Institute for Girls in Kamëz, Tirana, together with his wife Sevasti and sister-in-law Parashqevi.