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...
Operation HOPE – The Data Powered Work
We recently opened our 200th HOPE Inside location with Wells Fargo in DeKalb County, Ga. The HOPE Inside Network is ‘America’s financial coach’ and the nation’s private banker for the underserved. The CEO of Wells Fargo joined us for the opening and the bank has...
CMCT names John Hope Bryant to its Board of Directors
DALLAS, November 22, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCT and TASE: CMCT-L) announced today that John Hope Bryant has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. Bryant is chairman and chief executive officer of...
Our Vision for Measuring Success of the 3rd Reconstruction.
We believe that the 3rd Reconstruction is about Opportunity. Powering a 3rd Reconstruction vision, Operation HOPE has implemented a 10-year strategy to raise the economic energy and economic oportunity for the bottom 50% of American society, led by the growing HOPE...
Centinenial Yards Development is Coming to Atlanta, Ga.
Mayor Andre Dickens led a group of Atlanta’s most prestigious public, community and business leaders this week, as CIM Group announced the groundbreaking for the new Centennial Yards development in our city. The $6 billion Centennial Yards development represents the...
There’s No Lack of Genius in the Black Community…It Just Needs More Opportunity.
There's no shortage of genius and creativity in the Black community. It's simply missing opportunity! The New Black Wall Street in Stonecrest, Georgia is helping to give just that with their new innovative space that honors Black Wall Street, which was brutally...
Squawk Box: What Happens After the Midterms?
This morning, Kevin O'Leary and I appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to discuss the midterm elections' impact on small businesses. The economy is one of the biggest issues on voters' minds this election cycle and for good reason. Households across America are feeling the...
Memphis Mayor Teams Up with Operation HOPE and SBA to Drive Black Economic Development
Recently, I visited Memphis to be with my good friends Mayor Jim Strickland and head of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Administrator Isabella Guzman. This was the latest stop on the SBA's nation-wide tour promoting the Strategic Alliance Memorandum (SAM)....
Truist Donates Former Bank Branch to Operation HOPE for HOPE Inside Location
Personal Note from John Hope Bryant My history and background with Truist, and its leadership, is deeply personal to me. I remember my early meetings with Bill Rogers, the company CEO, where he was the first large bank to agree to support the model in 1-3 of their...
Happy 25th Anniversary Mrs. Mary Hagerty Ehrsam….
Who do you call, when you want to change the world? Mrs. Mary Ehrsam is who. Operation HOPE in South Africa, led by Mary Ehrsam She has been my global travel-the-world-for-HOPE companion, including South Africa (she and I have been there together more than 35 times...
Why 700 Credit Score Communities Don’t Riot
For years I've been saying that 700 Credit Score Communities don't riot. That has always been the case, but up until now, it's purely been anecdotal. Today, Operation HOPE is filling in the gaps with research-based evidence that proves our assertions and the model of...