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John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who has built more than 40 organizations, entities and companies, including Operation HOPE, the largest non-profit financial inclusion organization in the country, and The Promise Homes Company, the largest for profit, institutional quality, minority controlled owner of single family rental real estate in the country.
Bryant believes that people who come from underserved communities, such as the ones he grew up in, from Compton to South Central Los Angeles, California, have unlimited potential to contribute and to positively impact and change this world. He believes that most every successful big business was once a small one. And that the vast majority of these small business examples the founder was a single entrepreneur who came from little-to-nothing – just like John Hope Bryant did – and was simply relentless in their pursuit to do something, to become something, and to BUILD something. He believes that there is an undiscovered Steve Jobs in every underserved community in America, and in the world over – and he has made it his business to help find them, worldwide. John Hope Bryant believes that within the vast ‘Invisible Class’ is untapped GDP, entrepreneurial brilliance, and untapped prosperity for all waiting to be born.
John Hope Bryant is in the business of both re-inventing each and every one to their God given potential to be great and boundless, and also to building a sustainable and transformational group of companies and organizations that are both highly successful, from commercial to nonprofit. Furthermore, Bryant believes that every entrepreneur can ‘do well and do good, too.’ Better still, they can ‘do well by doing good.’
John Hope Bryant has built a network of more than 40 entities that span from nonprofit and community to scaled commercial business enterprises and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. Today, these enterprises include some of the largest in the United States, in their sector or industry, and in one case, operates in more than 70 countries worldwide.
LATEST STORIES

Promise Homes Secures $200 Million Debt Facility in December, 2021. One of the Largest for any Black Business.
As featured in Black Enterprise. After a lot of hard work, building The Promise Homes Company from a bold vision but a modest start up, started and run literally out of my and my then managing directors spare bedroom in June of 2017, the company is now positioned for...

When Giving is Getting. My Birthday, 2022.
Today, February 6, 2022, is my birthday. Honored to have circled the sun one more time, and lived life to the fullest while doing it. Giving, hopefully, at least as much as I took, along the way. Traditionally the individual celebrating their birthday receives gifts...

Building the Good Life Podcast – Special Guest: Jed York, CEO of San Francisco 49ers
This week on the Building The Good Life podcast, I'm joined by my friend and partner in the cause for silver rights, Jed York, CEO of San Francisco 49ers. In this episode, Jed shares some first-hand knowledge regarding sports and social injustices, why he's invested...

Introducing the new John Hope Bryant Holdings, LLC Website
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Operation HOPE, the largest nonprofit financial inclusion organization in America, and on the eve of the successful recapitalization of The Promise Homes Company, the largest in its category, and which I...

Bryant Speaks at World Government Summit, Dubai
These are times for transformational changes, at all levels of society. Including global governments. I was pleased to accept an invitation to speak at the 2022 World Government Summit held recently in Dubai, in the Middle East. John Hope Bryant with Mina Al-Oraibi...