I am so proud to share that my mentor, friend and our Operation HOPE 5MK co-chair, Quincy Jones, will be honored on Wednesday, December 15th , by the Los Angeles Unified School District with the ribbon-cutting and renaming of the new Quincy Jones Elementary School and Synergy Charter Academy.
This new LAUSD elementary school is located in LA's Historic Jazz Corridor and focuses on jazz music and arts education. It is designed to be a model for other public elementary schools in urban, low-socioeconomic communities that demonstrates high student achievement and success through music and arts education. Of course, Operation HOPE will make sure that all the tools we have available to empower youth are there too, at no cost to children, families or the school district.
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Bryant and Community
- John Hope Bryant Foundation
- City Club on Bunker Hill Board of Governors
- USC John Hope Bryant Scholarship in Urban Social Development
- Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
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- William Jefferson Clinton Foundation
- Black Leadership Forum Board of Directors
- John Bryant's Speaking Schedule
- Operation HOPE Board of Directors
Bryant Highlighted In Books
Bill George: Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
Robert McKinnon: Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World
Matthew Bishop: The Road from Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top
John Hope Bryant: Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World
Charles Grodin: If I Only Knew Then...: Learning from Our Mistakes
Press Room
- Andrew Young's Macedonian Call to Help New Orleans Churches
- John Hope Bryant on CNN "People You Should Know"
- African Diaspora: Rwanda Investment
- The Sacramento Bee: The Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce gave local business owners a shot of ‘HOPE’ hosting its 22nd Annual Awards Dinner
- All Africa.com: Kagame to Address Rwanda Convention
- Kansas City Star: "Know Your Silver Rights"
- President Bill Clinton Highlights Operation HOPE at Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
- San Diego Union Tribune: Jack Kemp and John Hope Bryant on Financial Literacy
- The Louisiana Weekly: The High Cost of Being Poor
- Final Call: The High Cost of Being Poor
- Our Weekly: Bryant, Andrew Young and the Los Angeles Sentinel
- City Beat: Civil Rights and Big Retail
- Forum of Young Global Leaders Summit and Dignity Day
- The London Times: Andrew Young, Former US envoy quits Wal-Mart
- NY Times: Different Focus in Atlanta on Young’s Remark
- NNPA: The High Cost of Being Poor
- The Sun Herald: There's HOPE for Financial Counseling
- Th Washington Informer: From Civil Rights to Silver Rights
- Wall Street Journal: Advocating for Silver Rights
- The Washington Post Reports on the Anacostia Economic Summit, May 8th
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John Hope Bryant Mission Statement
- "There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again."
- My vision for the poor, the under-served, and the wealthless of the world is to help them see themselves -- differently. We can do this by helping to expose, to educate, to empower, and ultimately to inspire them. To help them become "dreamers, with shovels in their own hands," quoting my friend Dr. Dorothy Height.
- To see themselves for what and who they truly already are; rich in spirit. Assets, and not liabilities on the world's global balance sheet.
- Because, I have seen, time and again, that given an informed choice, the poor do not want a hand out, but simply a hand up. They want the dignity that comes from doing for self.
- That education is the ultimate poverty eradication tool, and when you know better, you tend to do better.
- Moving from civil rights to silver rights. From integrating the lunch counter, to integrating the dollar too.
- That low-wealth communities, the world over, represent future emerging markets waiting to be born. That one person can make a diference, and we are that one person. That we are all accountable and responsible for the world we live in, because it is literally the world we create. A little hope can make the difference.
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- Join the Jean Childs Young Art Unveiling
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- Friend Karen A. Clark "gives" with her passion for music at Long Beach Jazz Festival
- In Loving Memory of a Leader who Gives
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