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 Announces 200th HOPE Inside Location
Milestone Expansion of HOPE Inside’s Financial Coaching Model for Underserved Communities Coincides with Today’s Annual U.S. Treasury Freedman’s Bank Forum ATLANTA—October 4, 2022 – Operation HOPE, Inc., the nation’s largest non-profit dedicated to financial...
Eagle, Buzzard Or A Turkey. What Kind Of Bird Do You Want to Be?
John Hope Bryant and Rev. Jamal Bryant at New Birth I was honored to join Rev. Jamal Bryant, Pastor of New Birth Church in Greater Atlanta, for his announcement to support the 1MBB movement with a commitment of 1,500 new black businesses from the church, by 2030....
John Hope Bryant Speaks at the Chicago Treasurer’s Office Financial Empowerment Summit 2022
I am proud and pleased to travel — over my weekend — to Chicago, IL to join other thought leaders and builders, to speak before Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin’s Financial Empowerment Summit, October 1, 2022, from 10am-3pm. This topic, for those who...
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and Operation HOPE Sign National MOU Advancing 1MBB
I was thrilled to travel to Washington, DC yesterday to sign an important national Memorandum of Agreement between Operation HOPE and the 150,000+ strong Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity to advance the mandate of and for 1MBB, or our 1 Million new Black Business Initiative....
The Promise Homes Company Announces More Than $3.5 Million Paid Through Its Minority Vendor Program
The Promise Homes Company, the largest minority-led manager of institutional-quality, single-family residential rental homes in the United States, announced today that it has paid more than $3.5 million to minority-owned repair and maintenance companies and...
Breaking Bread with NASCAR President Steve Phelps
This week I had the pleasure of sitting down for a casual dinner with a new friend, Mr. Steve Phelps, President of NASCAR. This man is the definition of a quiet storm. Doing big things, and calling very little attention to himself in the process. We welcome Steve...
John Hope Bryant Speaks on ‘Financial Literacy for All’ at Walmart Headquarters, in Bentonville, Arkansas
John Hope Bryant and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon Last Friday I had a special opportunity to speak at the headquarters of the largest retailer in the world, Walmart, at their well know Friday ‘Family’ meeting. Speaking in conversation with Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart...
Operation HOPE Hits 200th HOPE Inside Location Mark Nationwide. ‘America’s Financial Coach’ for the Underserved.
30 years ago this past May 5th, 2022, Operation HOPE was founded in South Central Los Angeles, California. This month I am proud to share than we have hit the 200th HOPE Inside location nationwide. Our plan call for 1,000 locations, and the embedding of the model into...
Operation HOPE and Cadence Bank Opens HOPE Inside locations #192 and #193
Operation HOPE isn on the move, and I am honored to lead it. Leadership means thinking global, and acting local. And acting local is precisely what we are doing every day at Operation HOPE. One of the ways we operationalize our vision, is through the expansion of the...
It Never Gets Old. When President Bill Clinton Calls Your Name.
It just never, ever gets old. When a current respected former U.S. President, calls your name. I remember the first time it happened, with a man I respected —- then President George H.W. Bush, at the White House. But he didn’t know me, and I didn’t know him. He had...