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HOPE Coalition America Posts Results for Project Restore HOPE: Hurricane Sandy

Los Angeles -- May 9, 2013 -- Since November 2012, Operation HOPE’s disaster preparedness and recovery division, HOPE Coalition America (HCA), has provided Disaster Financial Recovery personal counseling for 11,069 individuals and reached out to an additional 38,266 survivors referred by the American Red Cross for financial guidance and assistance, the financial dignity nonprofit announced today. These figures mark the initial efforts of HCA’s two year plan to provide services to individuals and small businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy in October, 2012. 

 

Through Operation HOPE’s disaster preparedness and recovery division, HOPE Coalition America (HCA), free financial recovery information and guidance is available for individuals and small business owners through a national toll free assistance hotline 888-388-HOPE (4673).

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Hurricane Sandy Update from HOPE Coalition America and Project Restore HOPE

HOPE Coalition America and Project Restore HOPE: Hurricane Sandy have already hired staff, and this month will be opening offices in Brick, New Jersey and other key cities impacted by Sandy in the state of New Jersey.

HCA has more than 1,000 professionals committed to provide volunteer financial case management and counseling, along with my team, for those impacted.  The lead volunteer partner for Sandy work is JP Morgan Chase, which has been incredible with more than 600 committed HOPE Corps volunteers leaning into this important work.

A special thank you to the State of New Jersey Relief Fund (for Hurricane Sandy), the Office of the First Lady for New Jersey, Mrs. Mary Pat Christie, the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Economic Development Administration, JP Morgan Chase, Ares Capital Management, the American Red Cross, UPS, Chubb Insurace which donated our 55 Water Street office space in New York, and a range of additional partners engaged here.

HCA is a national partner with FEMA for emergency financial and economic preparedness, response and recovery for the nation.  For more information on our Hurricane Sandy response work, how you can get involved, or get help, contact Fred Smith, division president for HCA.  Also important to the process is Mary Hagerty, CEO of Operation HOPE NYC and my NE leadership officer.

A special tank you to Michael Arougheti, principal of Ares Management of Manhattan, and a national member of the Operation HOPE board of directors.  It was Mr. Arougheti who spearheaded the corporate effort to get corporate leaders engaged and involved in our Sandy recovery efforts in the weeks following the disaster.  His leadership will be forever remembered, and much appreciated.

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U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability Unanimously Passes Recommendation to Bring FEMA into Financial Capability Efforts of Federal Government

With the support of FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and FEMA Deputy Administrator Tim Manning, approximately 45 days ago the Subcommittee on the Underserved and Community Empowerment for the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, which I chair serving President Barack Obama and the Obama Administration, considered and subsequently passed a key recommendation to the full Council that would incorporate the new field of emergency financial and economic disaster preparedness, response and recovery into the federal government policy framework around financial capability.  

I am pleased to report that this past week, at the Council meeting held at the U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday, November 27th, 2012, the full Council unanimously approved this same recommendation to the President and Secretary of the Treasury.  Chris Logan, chief of staff and counselor to the deputy administrator at FEMA, pictured above, was on hand when the vote was considered and carried at the meeting.

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Achmat Dangor, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, to Speak at the HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit

Achmat Dangor

Chief Executive Officer
Nelson Mandela Foundation
WORKING GROUP SESSION LEADER

Achmat Dangor is one of the closest confidants to the Honorable Nelson Mandela in South Africa, and serves as the CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and we are honored to have the foundation as one of our strategic partners in South Africa.

Achmat Dangor is the CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Nelson Mandela Foundation promotes and enables the growth of human fulfillment and the continuous expansion of the frontiers of freedom.

Before joining the foundation in January 2007, Mr. Dangor was Director of Advocacy, Communications and Leadership at UNAIDS, and before that, he was Interim Director of the World AIDS Campaign. Previously, Mr. Dangor served as Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the Mandela Rhodes Foundation. Prior to that, he worked in the private sector, including a 13-year stint as a senior executive in Revlon Inc.’s South African subsidiary. As the founding executive director of the Kagiso Trust (1986-1991) he worked alongside prominent political and church leaders, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to build up the largest black-led foundation in South Africa.

In 1993, Mr. Dangor returned to South Africa to head up the Secretariat of the Drought Forum created by the newly unbanned liberation movements, churches and community organizations to coordinate relief efforts at the height of the severe drought of early 1990’s. The Forum’s brief was to ensure that government and private resources reached the neediest people and that a solid development foundation was laid. In 1994 he joined the Independent Development Trust (IDT) as director for rural development, and later served as its acting CEO during a crucial transformation period. During this time he was also a member of various task groups set up by the office of then Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, to create the Transitional National Development Trust (TNDT) and its successor, the National Development Agency (NDA).

Achmat Dangor is a writer who has published five works of fiction and poetry. It is a vocation that he continues to pursue as he has an active interest in the arts and culture. Random House bought his first USA publication in 1999 and his last novel has been translated into five languages.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation leads the development of a living legacy that captures the vision and values of Nelson Mandela’s life and work. Through the creation of strategic networks and partnerships, the Nelson Mandela Foundation directs resources, knowledge and practice to add value and demonstrate new possibilities. It embodies the spirit of reconciliation, ubuntu and social justice.

Achmat Dangor | HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit.

We are honored to have our friend and partner Achmat Dangor with us for the global summit.

For complete information on the global summit, check here.

 

Citi Foundation and Operation HOPE Celebrate 2012 National Emergency Preparedness Month

New scaling program designed to help empower families to take control of their financial future in the wake of a disaster; Financial Preparedness Seminars offered until the end of the year

New York, New York (PRWEB) October 01, 2012

Operation HOPE’s division for financial emergency preparedness and “economic triage,” HOPE Coalition America (HCA), today announced, in recognition of National Emergency Preparedness Month, a $150,000 contribution from the Citi Foundation was made to help families prepare for and minimize the impact of a catastrophe on their finances in the wake of a man made or natural disaster.

          

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Participants are encouraged to take advantage of free financial education and counseling services offered at local HOPE Centers. To obtain a schedule of Financial Preparedness Seminars in your community contact: Jason Yancey 866-690-1596 ext. 239

Made available through a series of fifty-six Financial Preparedness Seminars, which began in August and will be made available to the end of the year, at HOPE Centers in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area, a program that aims to empower 1,680 individuals in low-to-moderate income communities by the end of 2012. HOPE expects that 50% of all participants will complete the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit and Personal Disaster Preparedness Guide, 35% will create and maintain a budget, and 20% will contribute to an emergency savings account.

The HOPE Emergency Financial First Aid Kit (EFFAK)and the Personal Disaster Preparedness Guide (PDPG) documents are the key tools used to help participants organize financial and personal information, review their assets, establish and maintain a budget and ensure access to personal financial information in case of an emergency or disaster. Both tools lead individuals through the steps they should take prior to an emergency to protect their assets, including preparing a disaster recovery budget, reviewing insurance coverage, and creating an emergency fund. The U.S. government’s Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has endorsed these materials and more than 500,000 copies have been distributed to date. The results are measured by the HOPE’s Office of Innovation, Research and Assessment with a focus on assessing the saving and preparedness behavior shift in participants after completing the program.

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Timothy Manning, Deputy Administrator for FEMA, to Speak at HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit, 2012

We are pleased and honored to confirm that my friend Timothy Manning, Deputy Director for DHS/FEMA, will serve as Working Session Co-Chair at the HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit, 2012, in Atlanta, Georgia on November 14th-15th, 2012.

Our HOPE Coalition America division is a national partner with DHS-FEMA for emergency financial and economic preparedness, response and recovery work, on-the-ground and in communities across t nation. You can check out our unique partnership work here, including our work on the ground following Hurricane Katrina.

Tim Manning is the Deputy Administrator of the National Preparedness Directorate within the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Directorate has six business units with more than 300 personnel who are charged with providing guidance, programs, activities and services to prepare the Nation to prevent, protect from, respond to and recover from all hazards.

Find out more about Tim Manning's background here.

 

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.   Mr. Bryant serves on the board of directors of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation, an NYSE Euronext publicly traded company, and a division of $54 billion Ares Capital.

Operation HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant and U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry at the OCC in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry and I stand in front of a portrait of the first Comptroller of the Currency, who was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in the early 20th century. Guess that proves that free enterprise and capitalism, and even those regulate them, can too be an authentic and genuine force for good in the world.

During our meeting I briefed the Comptroller on our newest innovations, including HOPE 700 Credit Score Initiatives, HOPE Business In A Box, the innovative work we continue to do HOPE Coaltion America and DHS/FEMA, around emergency financial and economic disaster preparedness, response and recovery, and our highly regarded Emergency Financial First Aid Kit or EFFAK.  I also briefed him on our efforts to become an incubator of young leadership talent with our HOPE Fellows and HOPE FILE Program.

I was honored to spend some quality time with Comptroller Curry, and I believe that the agency has a solid leader, and indeed a 'good man' in him.  I am proud to call him a new friend.

Deputy Comptroller for Community Affairs Barry Wides, and Jena Roscoe, Operation HOPE's chief of government relations and public policy, also joined me for the meeting at OCC headquarters in Washinghton, D.C. this week.  The Operation HOPE family has enjoyed a strong and long-standing relationship with the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency's office, as well as every Comptroller during the 20 year history of Operation HOPE itself.  The OCC leadership continues to get stronger and stronger, and that includes Comptroller Curry.

Onward and with HOPE,

 

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.   Mr. Bryant serves on the board of directors of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation, an NYSE Euronext publicly traded company, and a division of $54 billion Ares Capital.

 

 

 

Operation HOPE at 20: A Look at Who We IMPACT

 

A special thank you to Rod McGrew, global chief of brand for Operation HOPE, for producing this summary of Operation HOPE's impact in the lives of people.  Real people. Our clients. The more than 1.5M we have served over the last 20 years.