
Inspired by President Barack Obama's call to leading private sector and community-based organizations to act now, helping to create youth business internships, jobs and opportunity, Operation HOPE stepped forward and made a unique commitment to actually operationalize the Gallup-HOPE Index Cities Initiative, which is built around our recently launched Gallup-HOPE Index National Poll.
Operation HOPE was honored to step forward, and to develop something that can show real results in real communities. Here is how it works.
On October 13th, 2011, Gallup and Operation HOPE (HOPE) released a first-ever national data poll around youth financial literacy and youth economic energy in America. Complete summary national Index data findings can be found at http://www.gallup.com/poll/150077/students-entrepreneurial-energy-waiting-tapped.aspx.
"The short-term goal is youth jobs, but the long-term goal #1, in every major urban city, is moving cities from 77/5, to 77/20."
The national poll had a 3% margin of error and covered the Q34 breakthrough questions, as designed by Gallup social scientists. All of the results were both telling and compelling, and further confirmed both Gallup and HOPE's fundamental belief that aspirations, hope and opportunity, and focusing on youth's 'strengths,' rather than their weaknesses, is the key to get young people to both enroll and to become real stakeholders in their own future success.
77/5
One of the most compelling data stat groups that seemed to jump out and distinguish itself from the national raw data, was youth responses to two critical questions:
- 77% of all youth report that they want to be their own boss.
- 5% of all youth report that they currently have a business internship or business mentor.
Why I Do What I Do
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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