John Hope Bryant

John Hope Bryant Speaks to Parents, Youth About MAKING SMART COOL, Stay in School

 

I recorded this important video message after visiting a Georgia school, and talking to youth (of all races) about the "dumbing down of America," and how it is their mission to MAKE SMART COOL again.  Check it out, and pass it on!  The 5MK movement is in full-effect.

 

John Hope Bryant is a thought leader, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Bryant Group Companies, Inc. Magazine/CEO READ bestselling business author of LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass) the only African-American bestselling business author in America, and is chairman of the Subcommittee for the Under-Served and Community Empowerment for the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, for President Barack Obama.  Mr. Bryant is the co-founder of the Gallup-HOPE Index, the only national research poll on youth financial dignity and youth economic energy in the U.S. He is also a co-founder of Global Dignity with HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland. Global Dignity is affiliated with the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum. 

Introducing the HOPE Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | Operation HOPE Blog

 

Read the complete story here, on the HOPE Blog, or watch the video here.

Introducing the HOPE Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | Operation HOPE Blog.

HOPE Never Sleeps -- Our Chief Technology Officer Literally Working in the Armenian Snow

Here is our Operation HOPE chief technology officer, Allen Yekikian, working to resolve some HOPE technology issue while standing in the snow in an Armenian city!  And he is on vacation, no less (smile). HOPE literally never sleeps!

A special thank you to Allen Yekikian and his right arm Sevan Torossian for all that they do to advance digital empowerment and the silver rights movement at Operation HOPE.

 

 

Operation HOPE Launches Arabic Version Financial Literacy Curriculum

I was honored to be in Morocco recently, speaking as the closing keynote for the annual meeting of the African Securities Exchange Association and before 22 CEOs for their respective country's stock exchanges, throughout the whole of Africa.  More than 400 delegates attended from countries beyond the African continent, and I was also thrilled to again spend some time with my friend and our HOPE Global Board of Advisors' Chairman, Mr. Sean Cleary, whom I lovingly refer to as the "South African James Bond."  Mr. Cleary, a legend in South Africa who helped to draft the South African Constitution, was also a featured speaker.  The conference was organized, hosted and held by my friend and fellow global advisory board member Karim Hajji, CEO of the Casablanca Stock Exchange.

The launch the Arabic contextualized version of our Banking on Our Future financial literacy curriculum, and a featured part of our Wikia-HOPE Global Money, Morocco Initiative, was no small feat. The actual work to get this done came through the staff of the CSE (for whom I and we are very thankful), but the importance of getting this done, and at this particular time and place in history cannot be understated.

HOPE Founder John Hope Bryant joins Casablanca Stock Exchange CEO Karim Hajji to announce Arabic version of financial literacy empowerment curriculum at 2011 ASEA Conference in Marrakech, Morocco

Wikia-HOPE Global Money Initiative Adds Contextualized Arabic Financial Literacy Curriculum to Wiki Site 

Casablanca CEO, Karim Hajji and HOPE Founder John Hope Bryant announce fully adapted Arabic version of financial literacy empowerment curriculum at 2011 ASEA Conference

Marrakesh, Morocco--Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE) CEO Karim Hajji, and Operation HOPE [HOPE] Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant, announced during the 15^th ASEA Annual Conference, held in Marrakesh from December 11-13, that the Global Money Wiki site will offer fully adapted or “contextualized” version of HOPE’s financial dignity curriculum based on Moroccan banking system starting in January 2012.

“Harnessing the power of the internet, the Wikia-HOPE Global Money Initiative seeks to provide the poor and under-served around the world over with a first-ever empowerment resource: a free global and fully downloadable financial literacy curriculum, based on the banking and financial systems relevant in each community,” said Bryant. “It is our belief that this tool will help thousands of Moroccans build better futures for themselves as well as boost Africa’s growing economy,” Hajji continued.

GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY 2011 in Afghanistan

 

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For the first time, we celebrated the Global Dignity Day in Afghanistan. The GD country chair went to a school in a suburb of the capital Kabul where he talked to a group of students and their teachers about GDD and its aims. Both the students and teachers in the school liked the idea and made contributions by talking about the dignity theme and narrating their personal stories and experiences.

Three students volunteered to come to the front of the classroom and tell their stories about dignity, what it meant to them and how they helped others to increase their dignity and the dignity of others. One of the students narrated his story by saying that how he helped an injured man without knowing him. Another said he fed a stranger.

The class teacher also narrated a couple of stories while explaining the importance of helping others and being nice to eachother.

Both the students and teachers promised that while keeping the GDD message in mind, they will celebrate the day every year.

 

Global Dignity was co-founded by HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland, and John Hope Bryant, founder of Operation HOPE of the United States. Global Dignity is affiliated with the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum. 

 

 

Images from the Forum of Global Shapers, Atlanta Hub Launch

Photos from the Launch of the Global Shapers Forum Atlanta Hub | Operation HOPE Blog.

MAYOR REED, AMBASSADOR YOUNG, JOHN HOPE BRYANT LAUNCH GLOBAL SHAPERS INITIATIVE

World Economic Forum targets group of emerging young leaders with leadership training and mentorship opportunities 

Mayor Kasim Reed, Ambassador Andrew Young and Operation HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant hosted a reception this evening at the W Hotel in Downtown Atlanta for candidates interested in applying for the Forum of Global Shapers, Atlanta Hub. More than 50 young leaders will be selected over the next three years to proactively and positively impact the global agenda through the Atlanta Hub for the Global Shapers Community.

“The incoming class of Atlanta Global Shapers will use their talents to foster fresh ideas and entrepreneurial solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing our city,” said Mayor Reed. “They will also collaborate with other Global Shapers worldwide to share ideas and best practices on tackling global problems. I am delighted to be a part of an initiative that will benefit Atlanta and the region while also giving our young, emerging leaders a platform to grow professionally.”

Read the complete story on Mayor Kasim Reed and the City of Atlanta website here.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed to Announce Forum of Global Shapers, Atlanta Hub tomorrow evening, Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Mayor Kasim Reed, Ambassador Andrew Young, John Hope Bryant and Organizing Committee Announce Forum of Global Shapers, Atlanta, Hub