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Posted at 01:25 PM in 21st Century African-American Agenda, 21st Century Low Wealth Agenda, 21st Century Mainstream Agenda, 21st century Middle Class agenda, 21st Century Youth Agenda, Bryant and his Vision for Operation HOPE, Bryant Blogging for the People, Bryant on a Vision for the Future, Bryant on a Word on Reset, Bryant on Capitalism for the People, Bryant on Civil Rights, Bryant on Current Affairs, Bryant on Dignity, Bryant on Giving Back, Bryant on HOPE Leaders, Bryant on Leadership, Bryant on Love Leadership, HOPE and the Silver Rights Movement, HOPE Business-In-A-Box, HOPE Fellows, HOPE FILE Program | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted at 08:48 PM in 21st Century African-American Agenda, 21st Century Latino Agenda, 21st Century Low Wealth Agenda, 21st Century Mainstream Agenda, 21st century Middle Class agenda, 21st Century Youth Agenda, 5MK (5 MILLION KIDS), Bryant and Friends, Bryant and his Vision for Operation HOPE, Bryant as Testimony, Bryant Blogging for the People, Bryant Heroes and Sheroes, Bryant International Agenda, Bryant on a Vision for the Future, Bryant on Bi-Partisan Public Policy, Bryant on Culture, Bryant on Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., Bryant on Love Leadership, Bryant on Mentoring and Role Models, Bryant on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Bryant on Youth Economic Energy, Bryant Speaks, Bryant Traveling Man, Bryant Video Content, HOPE and Bryant Media, HOPE and Bryant on History Making, HOPE and Friends, HOPE and the Silver Rights Movement, HOPE Atlanta Office, HOPE Corps Volunteers, HOPE Financial Dignity, HOPE Financial Literacy, HOPE Local Impact, HOPE Results, HOPE's Banking on Our Future Program, John Hope Bryant Authored, Love Leadership Examples, Partnership with Community | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Introducing HOPE Business-In-A-Box, and the first founding $50.00 donors to the program for youth entrepreneurship development -- Mr. and Mrs. Spence and Jean Wiles.
Jean and Spence presented this $50.00 check to me on my birthday, establishing themselves as the first donors to this amazing new initiative to inspire a generation of entrepreneurs, small business owners and "self-employment projects." A special thank you as well goes out to Claude and Juanita Bryan, who also made a commitment on the same evening to sponsor another HOPE Business-In-A-Box.
HOPE Business-In-A-Box is a signature initiative of and for our new HOPE Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, all launched during my birthday week. Here is how it works....
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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.
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And this was one of my really special birthday presents, from me and the HOPE family to the world. Enjoy. Engage. Let's go.
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.
Posted at 10:29 PM in 21st Century Youth Agenda, Bryant Blogging for the People, Bryant International Agenda, Bryant on Civil Rights, Bryant on Current Affairs, Bryant on Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., Bryant on HOPE Leaders, Bryant on Leadership, HOPE Corps Volunteers, HOPE Fellows, HOPE Internship Program, HOPE Loaned Executive Program | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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I do it for THIS reason. To see THIS expression on a young person's face. Just look at this ~ it is literally priceless. And all I had to do here was to sign and give him a copy of my bestselling business book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass). Did you "get" what I just said? I gave the young man a BUSINESS book. Not fiction (all good by the way), or a comic, or some rap lyrics (all good too). But a book on business and leadership, and inspired in the right way, this young man just lit up like a Christmas tree.
This is why I do what I do, and why I believe so passionately in our work in financial dignity at Operation HOPE, and the promise of the silver rights movement.
Our young people increasingly don't have something tangible of even aspirational to believe in, and as a result, we are losing them.
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Today I was deeply honored to meet and spend substantive time one on one with former U.S. President (and my friend) William Jefferson Clinton, in his Clinton Foundation office in Harlem, New York. I was also pleased to have with me Mrs. Mary Hagerty Ehrsam, our global chief of financial dignity. Our government relations chief, Ms. Jena Roscoe who worked for President Clinton in the second term at the White House, did not join us but she was there with us in spirit.
We covered a range of items of mutual interest to both his foundations and the Operation HOPE family, both domestic and international, including the new Gallup-HOPE Index and the Gallup-HOPE Index Cities Initiative. We actually presented President Clinton and his staff with the first draft copy of the Gallup-HOPE Index 2011 Report, which will be mailed out nationwide to leaders later this month. We also briefed the President on the HOPE Financial Dignity Center, Ebenezer which is presently under construction in Atlanta (at the King Center complex and within th new Martin Luther King, Sr. Community Resource Complex), our new HOPE Office of Small Business & Entrepreneurship which will be formally announced to the public on my birthday, February 6th, 2012, along with our new HOPE Business-In-A-Box and the HOPE FILE Program (HOPE Fellows, HOPE Interns and HOPE Loan Executive Programs).
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Posted at 11:01 AM in 21st Century African-American Agenda, 21st Century Latino Agenda, 21st Century Low Wealth Agenda, 21st Century Mainstream Agenda, 21st century Middle Class agenda, 21st Century Native American Agenda, 21st Century Women and Girls Empowerment Agenda, 21st Century Youth Agenda, Bryant and Friends, Bryant and his Vision for Operation HOPE, Bryant Audio Message, Bryant Friends Making a Difference, Bryant Heroes and Sheroes, Bryant International Agenda, Bryant Mentors, Bryant on a Vision for the Future, Bryant on a Word on Reset, Bryant on Bi-Partisan Public Policy, Bryant on Capitalism for the People, Bryant on Civil Rights, Bryant on Current Affairs, Bryant on Global Citizenship, Bryant on Leadership, Bryant on Love Leadership, Bryant on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Bryant on the Global Economic Crisis and Response, Bryant Traveling Man, HOPE and Bryant on History Making, HOPE and Friends, HOPE and the Silver Rights Movement, HOPE Atlanta Office, HOPE Center, Ebenezer, HOPE Financial Dignity, HOPE Financial Literacy, HOPE Office of Government Relations and Public Policy, HOPE Results, John Hope Bryant Authored, Love Leadership Book by Jossey-Bass, Love Leadership Examples | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Last week I toured the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency with its director, Ms. Deborah Lum, and to say I was impressed would be an understatement. They do so much here for the poor, the underserved and really -- just anyone that is striving in their lives for a future that is "better," brighter and more aspirational.
The center grew and helped high students attend college under Mayor Shirley Franklin, and is doing even more under the administration of Mayor Kasim Reed.
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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.
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