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HOPE Snippet: HOPE Global Spokesman and HOPE Founder In Studio With Clear Channel

This week HOPE Global Spokesman Ambassador Andrew Young, and Operation HOPE founder John Hope Bryant, ventured into the studio to record a series of radio spots benefiting those impacted by Hurricane Sandy, the tornadoes that just hit Oklahoma, and untold natural disasters yet to come in 2013.

The HOPE Coalition America (HCA) emergency financial disaster preparedness, response and recovery division within Operation HOPE is here to help.   HCA is a national partner with FEMA.

A special thank you to the entire Clear Channel and Premiere Radio Network family for continuing and ongoing PSA support for our work on their radio stations across the nation.  An invaluable resource and assistance to our work.  

For those in need contact HCA direct at 888 388 HOPE, today.  All services are free.

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).

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

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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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ATLANTA – April 18, 2013 – Financial dignity leader, Operation HOPE announced today that it has received a $200,000 grant from The UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of the UPS (NYSE:UPS) in support of Hurricane Sandy financial disaster recovery assistance and youth financial literacy programs Banking on Our Future (BOOF), Fellows Interns & Loaned Executives (FILE), and HOPE Businesses-in-A-Box (HBIAB).

 

"This $200,000 commitment by UPS Foundation builds from previous commitments to financial literacy and empowerment," said Latresa McLawhorn Ryan global vice president of strategic partnerships and development. “This funding will help provide us provide financial recovery assistance and guidance for small business and individuals affected by Hurricane Sandy, and continue our youth financial dignity programs.

 

Since its formation in 2001, the result of a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA, HCA has helped more than 300,000 individuals and small business recovering from 33 disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Florida Hurricanes, tornados and flooding in southern and mid-western states and Hurricane Sandy.

 

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NEW YORK—April 11, 2013 — 

Financial dignity leader Operation HOPE (HOPE) today announced a $400,000 contribution from leading financial services firm JPMorgan Chase through the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. The grant will fund HOPE Coalition America, the nonprofit's emergency disaster and preparedness division, and will support Project Restore HOPE: Hurricane Sandy to help families, individuals, and small businesses recover from the devastating effects of the storm. JPMorgan Chase has also committed volunteers to help Sandy survivors access the resources they need to rebuild their lives.

"JPMorgan Chase is an outstanding supporter with an incredible team that truly understands that partnership, collaboration, funding and volunteer people power construct the true model for successful long-term financial recovery for Sandy survivors and HOPE is honored to collaborate with them," said Mary Hagerty Ehrsam, Chief Executive Officer, HOPE New York Market. "Project Restore HOPE, with JPMorgan Chase's support, will empower thousands of families and small businesses in NY and NJ to get back on track financially and stay strong as they recover through economic triage, financial guidance, and long-term planning. HOPE is committed to coordinating every possible resource available to support a full recovery. Working in partnership with government, community, and the private sector, we will help restore hope and rebuild lives."

Survivors will receive guidance and assistance in completing FEMA and insurance claims, deferring payments and negotiating loans, developing recovery budgets, recovering lost documents, and accessing available financial resources. HOPE will also provide continued support for these individuals after their applications have been submitted and provide long-term financial planning assistance as they begin rebuilding their finances. JPMorgan Chase employees will also volunteer their time and expertise to help deliver these services.

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BRICK — Just two months after Marie O’Boyle and her family moved into a ranch-style home in the Cherry Quay section of Brick, Hurricane Sandy struck. Two feet of water flooded the home.

More than five months later O’Boyle is still waiting on her settlement from her flood insurance company, while her and her husband debate how to rebuild in the most economical way.

"We’re just really having a dilemma about whether to knock it down and put up a modular or rebuild altogether or to raise the existing structure," O’Boyle said. "It’s a complex issue. We keep going back and forth on it."

A grant from the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, which is chaired by First Lady Mary Pat Christie, aims to help residents, like O’Boyle, navigate the maze of financial questions that linger for thousands of people affected by the Oct. 29 storm.

"It’s such a labyrinth in terms of what you are allowed to get whether you raise your house, whether you knock it down, whether you got this amount of money from insurance, and it’s hard to figure out all that," Christie said.

The nonprofit group Operation HOPE will try to help storm victims answer those tough questions through its Project Restore HOPE initiative, which received a $600,000 grant from the relief fund. Christie announced the grant today at the recreation center in Brick Township, where one of up to six centers across the state providing free financial counseling will be located.

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Operation HOPE and HOPE Coalition America Provide Support This Weekend for Hurricane Sandy Survivors

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Islanders who are still finding it difficult to navigate through the confusing and stressful rebuilding process after Hurricane Sandy found some relief on Saturday during a resource fair at New Dorp High School. There, families, individuals and small businesses received free disaster recovery information. 

Organized at the invitation of  Borough President James P. Molinaro and through Operation HOPE, a financial empowerment nonprofit, and sponsored by the American Red Cross, Saturday's event offered a variety of services with experts on hand to answer a host of questions.

Some of these include: Deferring payments and renegotiating loans; obtaining copies of documents; filing and resolving insurance claims; completing home inspections; creating a logical financial recovery budget and EITC refunds; foreclosure prevention; selecting and managing a home repair contractor, and completing FEMA and SBA documents.

Representatives from Operation HOPE, American Red Cross, JPMorgan Chase, FEMA, United Way, SBA and New York VOAD Agencies were also there to offer advice for anyone still having trouble repairing their homes or businesses.

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Operation HOPE and the American Red Cross Together -- Helping Others

I was honored to stand with my new friend Ms.Gail McGovern, a seasoned business executive who now runs the American Red Cross as their CEO, Ms. McGovern is both uniquely qualified, and especially appropriate.  

The former is obvious from her bullet proof resume, but the latter you pick up when you meet her.  She is simply, good people.  Or as I said to her when we last were together, "it's abnormal, that you are so very normal, approachable, real."

Operation HOPE's division focused on emergency financial and economic disaster preparedness, response and recovery, HOPE Coalition America (HCA), is often referred to as the "economic Red Cross," given that we assist individuals, families, businesses and communities to repair and put back together their financial lives.  HCA and the American Red Cross (ARC) have a national memorandum of agreement framed around joint disaster preparedness, response and recovery, leveraging our respective strengths.  In this instance, we are actually partnering closely together around Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts, supported financially by the American Red Cross.  A special thank you to ARC for their $500,000 in funded support around our Sandy financial case management, emergency response efforts.  See the joint press statement here.  Additionally, you can find the three month progress report from ARC here.

Operation HOPE Receives Red Cross Grant for Sandy Recovery

Los Angeles - Friday March 01, 2013 - Financial dignity nonprofitOperation HOPE announced today it has been awarded a $500,000 American Red Cross grant to support recovery services for people affected by Superstorm Sandy.

Operation HOPE will use the funding to bolster rebuilding and recovery efforts throughout the 14 states that suffered hurricane damage by providing the following assistance:

Deferring payments and renegotiating

loans

Creating a logical financial recovery

budget and EITC refunds

Obtaining copies of documents

Filing and resolving insurance claims

Foreclosure prevention

Completing FEMA and SBA documents

Completing home inspections

Selecting and managing a home repair contractor

“Operation HOPE’s response to Hurricane Sandy began in November and we currently have more than 6,000 disaster clients. We also understand that we have merely tapped the surface. With the support of the American Red Cross, we will be able to reach more residents that are still struggling with their financial recovery issues, as well as provide services more effectively, said Fred Smith president of HOPE Coalition America, Operation HOPE’s disaster financial recovery division. “We are pleased that the American Red Cross recognizes the importance of financial guidance and counseling and supports our work to help individuals recover in storm-torn communities.”

“Sandy is the largest U.S. operation by the Red Cross in more than five years, and thanks to the public’s generous support, the Red Cross has provided millions of meals, snacks and relief supplies, shelter and comfort to Sandy survivors – and we will continue to provide help,” said Gregg O’Ryon, Vice President Readiness & Capacity Development for the Red Cross. “We know that recovery is a marathon, not a sprint, and programs such as this one by Operation HOPE are vital in helping people rebuild their lives.”