John Hope Bryant

HOPE Snippet: Operation HOPE, Inc. (HOPE) is recruiting for interns nationwide!

HOPE is looking for dedicated and PASSIONATE young adults to take leadership of meaningful projects to help underserved communities nationwide.  HOPE is seeking young leaders to intern in the following HOPE departments:

• HOPE Financial Dignity Centers
• HOPE Business in A Box
• Project Restore HOPE: Hurricane Sandy
• HOPE Youth Empowerment Group (BOOF, and BOOF CE)
• HOPE Global Initiatives
• HOPE Forums

Compliment your academic success with our in-depth, hands-on internship programs. As a HOPE intern you will have the opportunity to:

• Engage a network of executive professionals
• Immerse yourself in rewarding and stimulating projects
• Gain insight into the contemporary global financial environment
• Attend weekly leadership workshops

Be a part of the next generation for economic empowerment and Silver Rights movement!

Visit www.operationhope.org/fellows to learn more!

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HOPE FILE Program Inspires New Generation to Serve

I am pleased to report that Operation HOPE's FILE (Fellow, Interns, Loaned Executives), HOPE FILE VL (Volunteer Leaders) and HOPE Faculty Fellows are growing strong within the organization.

HOPE FILE Director Elaine Fischer tells me that we presently have 11 HOPE Fellows and more than 40 HOPE Interns active within Operation HOPE. Additionally, HOPE Faculty Fellows is in full swing, inspired by Professor Belinda White of Morehouse College.

Elaine also reports that we presently have 148 applications from 98 different colleges and universities, representing over 40 different majors.

Those interested should contact Elaine Fischer today.

Okay, 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. Mr. Bryant is a thought leader represented by the Bright Sight Group for public speaking. Mr. Bryant serves on the board of directors of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation (NYSE: ACRE), a specialty finance company that is managed by an affiliate of Ares Management LLC, a global alternative asset manager with approximately $59 billion in committed capital under management as of December 31, 2012.

The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires

I am honored to be highlighted in a new book, which I am now encouraging you and others to go and get for your library -- THE WEALTH CHOICE, by my friend Professor Dennis Kimbro.

Professor Kimbro, who is also a HOPE Faculty Fellow, is walking, talking silver rights empowerment in action. Get the book, and share it with others who want to change their lives too.

 

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 is a thought leader represented by the Bright Sight Group for public speaking. Mr. Bryant serves on the board of directors of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation (NYSE: ACRE), a specialty finance company that is managed by an affiliate of Ares Management LLC, a global alternative asset manager with approximately $59 billion in committed capital under management as of December 31, 2012. 

 

A Personal Letter from Operation HOPE Founder, Chairman, and CEO John Hope Bryant and Ambassador Andrew Young

Operation HOPE is "the private banker to the working poor, the underclass, and the struggling middle-class," and the impact of our work can be felt on-the-ground, everywhere we operate.  Our mission is 'silver rights,' or making free enterprise and capitalism work for all.  Financial literacy is the tool, financial dignity is the goal and financial inclusion is the way. 

2012 marked new heights for HOPE's silver rights movement as it continued to reach out and empower underserved populations in new and innovative ways. HOPE divisions currently serving the community include:

 

• Banking on Our Future, focused on keeping the most at-risk youth from repeating the cycles of poverty and despair that has trapped so many in their families and communities by teaching them basic financial literacy, or what we call "the global language of money." 

 

• HOPE Business-In-A-Box/Gallup-HOPE Index, focused on inspiring a generation of young people to become future American assets of economic energy, small business and entrepreneurship.

 

• HOPE Financial Dignity Centers, including our newest HOPE Financial Dignity Center at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr''s Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, Georgia, are where we approve clients day one, subject to the resolution of their primary denial factors, and raise credit scores on average 120 points over 18 months of active counseling. We call it the 700 Credit Scores Communities Initiative.  The HOPE Center at Ebenezer marks our 11th HOPE Center across the nation, and is the proud anchor for the new Martin Luther King. Sr. Community Resource Complex next to Ebenezer Church.  Most people know that Daddy King, as he was lovingly called, co-pastored Ebenezer Church with his son, Dr. King, but what they don't know is that Daddy King served on the board of a bank for 40 years.  Even more than 50 years ago, the King legacy was alive with civil rights, and silver rights empowerment, too. A special thank you to our HOPE Center signature partners, including Bank of the West and Union Bank on the west coast, E*TRADE FINANCIAL in New York City and Washington, DC, and at Ebenezer in Atlanta, FINANCIAL SERVICES ROUNDTABLE members SunTrust Bank, State Farm Insurance, LPL Financial/NestWise, Wells Fargo Bank,MasterCard, and BMO Harris Bank, along with supporting partners including the Coca-Cola Company,Kaplan University, Equifax, the United Way of Greater Atlanta, amongst others.

 

• HOPE Coalition America, which is the national partner with FEMA around emergency financial disaster preparedness, response and recovery, or the "economic Red Cross" for the nation.  HCA responded to, and served, more than 200,000 survivors following Hurricane Katrina, and we are responding to Hurricane Sandy now. 

 

• HOPE Government Relations & Public Policy, and HOPE Forums, which both advance responsible public policy and help to shape, engaged public opinion.  The recent HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summitfeaturing U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, with more than 1,500 delegates from 30 countries, covered by 50 major media outlets, is but one example of our focus here.

Read the complete personal letter on the HOPE Blog here.

Operation HOPE Announces the Founding HOPE Faculty Fellows for 2013

 

Inspired by a vision and an idea from Dr. Belinda Johnson White, Associate Professor at Morehouse College, last year Operation HOPE and HOPE FILE (Fellows, Interns and Loaned/Retired Executives) launched the new HOPE Faculty Fellows Program.  

Herein we present the founding group of HOPE Faculty Fellows for 2013.  Inspired leaders, who will now help Operation HOPE change our world, and chart a new way forward with silver rights empowerment for all.

 

 

 

 

HOPE Fellows Program Continues to Carry Torch with Help from New Sponsors | Operation HOPE Blog

HOPE Fellows Program Continues to Carry Torch with Help from New Sponsors

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Los Angeles Fellows Meet Operation HOPE Board Member Lionel Savage

Did you know that Operation HOPE relied significantly on the work of ten young college graduates (or near graduates) this summer? Predominately based in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Atlanta, these young fellows worked diligently to drive economic empowerment initiatives on a global scale. With the sponsorship of Lionel Savage, an executive from First American and HOPE Board Member, HOPE Fellows made a lasting impact on the organization this summer, proving the power of youth in driving social change.

With the Summer Fellows making such a memorable impact on the organization, Operation HOPE will continue supporting the work of HOPE Fellowships through the generous funding from UPS, Ed Ingle, and George Haligowski. Fellow “champions for silver rights” that will or have received support include:

Read the complete story on the Operation HOPE Blog below.

HOPE Fellows Program Continues to Carry Torch with Help from New Sponsors | Operation HOPE Blog.

John Hope Bryant Open Letter to Leaders, August, 2012

 

                                                                                                                            August 16, 2012

 

An Open Letter to Leaders

For 20 years Operation HOPE has been about progress for the underserved here in America and around the world.  Now, on our 20th anniversary in 2012, we have hit the internal and external 'reset' button with respect to our strategic focus, our approach, operations, and even the results we seek for those we serve.  What comes next sets us up for the next 20 years. 

For 20 years HOPE was structured around a triangle approach to leadership, where my senior leadership team and I issued directives and the rest of the organization responded, or worse, simply waited for direction.  This approach was actually appropriate for a start-up trying to forge and frame its culture and way of operating.  In June, 2012, we completed an internal restructure around a diamond approach to leadership, where my senior team and I are at the bottom of the triangle, supporting our newly minted group of top-line division presidents, portfolio leaders, local CEOs, market presidents and others who now take 'ownership' of the HOPE brand wherever they live, work and operate.  Accordingly, it is with great pleasure that I announce the following promotions and key appointments:

Operation HOPE Opens New Regional Office at Gallup Building in Washington, DC

Operation HOPE is expanding its reach in the Mid-Atlantic Region, securing office space for administrative use at the Gallup Building in Washington, DC.  More than a hundred people gathered at the Gallup headquarters on July 16th to celebrate the official Grand Opening.

During a packed reception, the Honorable Thomas M. Hoenig, Board Member FDIC made special remarks to crowded audience.  Gallup CEO and Chairman, Jim Clifton was on hand to lend to the importance of the occasion and speak about Gallup’s commitment to the “silver rights” empowerment organization and the Gallup-HOPE Index.

Operation HOPE Announces Organization Restructure

As we "press-on" assertively into the 21st century, Operation HOPE is on the move, with a new leadership and growth and management structure, for a new era of both challenges and opportunities.  

HOPE succeeded with a top down, "triange" leadership structure over the past 20 years, and going forward, HOPE will grow and sustain itself with a new "diamond" approach, where me, the president and chief operating officer and the other senior corporate leadership team serve as an active support base for our new crop of product line presidents, local CEOs, market presidents and portfolio leaders.

I am proud to introduce my and our new generation of our most senior leaders here:

Rachael Doff, who has been with me for close to 20 years, has been promoted to Senior Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff, Office of the Chairman.

• Lance Triggs, Division President, HOPE Financial Dignity Centers & CEO, Los Angeles Market

• Mary Hagerty Ehrsam, Division President, HOPE Youth Empowerment Group & CEO, New York Market

Here are all the new promotions here.

Operation HOPE Announces Organization Restructure.

Additionally, we will soon be making a super announcement around our newest magical division, HOPE Business In A Box.

Okay, let's go...

Onward and with HOPE

 

 

HOPE Fellows Stand with Gallup CEO Jim Clifton, Gallup-HOPE Index Advisory Board Co-Chair Landon Taylor, and of course former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton

 

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