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The Chrismans...
Tim and Karen Chrisman are dear and treasured friends of my sweetie, Sheila Kennedy Bryant, and I.
Karen is Tim's anchor, taking care of his loving mother and their multiple households (hey Karen -- I will gladly take care of Cambria for you -- ha, ha, ha!), and Tim is one of mine! One of those few people that I trust to help take care of me, and keep me on the right track!
Tim and I have known each other since 1996, when as chairman of then Hawthorne Savings Bank, he encouraged the bank to grant $1 million over 4-years to fund our first HOPE Center, located in South Los Angeles. A true visionary, Tim is today the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, vice chairman of the Federal Home Bank network, and is chairman and CEO of Chrisman and Company, a successful and leading edge executive search firm. In short -- Tim is a bad brotha (ha, ha, ha)! Good people too. Honored to know you friend. Love you both.... We both do!
Onward, with HOPE
Bryant and Community
- City Club on Bunker Hill Board of Governors
- Xavier University Board of Visitors, New Orleans
- USC John Hope Bryant Scholarship in Urban Social Development
- Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- John Bryant Biography
- William Jefferson Clinton Foundation
- Black Leadership Forum Board of Directors
- John Bryant's Speaking Schedule
- Operation HOPE Board of Directors
Bryant Highlighted Books
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
Julian C. R. Okwu, featuring John Bryant: Face Forward: Young African American Men in a Critical Age
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
The Bryant Blog Family
Bryant Authored Books & Publications
Operation HOPE and the Silver Rights Movement
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.
Bryant and Business
Bryant and Government
Bryant on the World
From the Mind of Bryant and HOPE
John Hope Bryant Essentials
Recent Posts
- Friend Karen A. Clark "gives" with her passion for music at Long Beach Jazz Festival
- In Loving Memory of a Leader who Gives
- Elder Bernice King Brings the Word of a New Day at Ebenezer Church
- My mentor and friend Quincy Jones speaks on Black Music Month, and giving back
- Memories with a great friend, Jim Clifton, CEO, Gallup
- Fellow Young Global Leader and Friend Raju Narisetti Becomes Managing Editor for the Washington Post!
- Glynn Turman: Emmy Award Win Comes During Prime Time
- John Hope Bryant expresses his heartfelt sympathy on the passing of Marity Brody Smith
- Bryant friend and HOPE board member Don McGrath Honored by the President
- One of my Confidential Assistants, and Friend, Debra Collins Gives Her Second Speech
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