Realizing that Americans were failing to take advantage of their access to democratic institutions, Daley-Harris developed the “deep advocacy” approach RESULTS uses.
RESULTS works to build the political will to end poverty by transforming everyday Americans into skilled advocates.
These volunteer advocates have helped shape federal government funding priorities to address the basic needs of poor people in the United States and around the world.
To do this RESULTS mobilized $40,000 of seed money from Japan and the celebrity support from Carol Kane, Valerie Harper, and many others.
In 1987 Muhammad Yunus, who was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, was visiting the United States and speaking to a congressional committee.