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...
Bryant Speaks at TD Jakes 2022 International Leadership Summit
It is rate that you meet someone you admire, and they do nothing but confirm what you thought you knew to begin with — or better. And that is precisely what I feel about my mentor Ambassador Andrew J. Young, and also how I feel now about my friend Bishop T.D. Jakes....
Bryant Speaks at Bloomberg Equality Summit 2022
I was proud to join Bloomberg’s Carol Massar, who served as moderator, and Marcus Shaw, CEO, ALT Finance, which seeks to advance inclusion on Wall Street using the mostly untapped power of HBCUs to do it, on a special panel framed around ‘Measuring the Movement’ at...
Wells Fargo and Operation HOPE Partner on the HOPE Inside Model
On our 30th anniversary, Operation HOPE has lots to celebrate and to appreciate. But there is also a lot of unfinished work left to do, and we are about all of it. With approximately 190 HOPE Inside locations operating to date, in approximately 40 states, we are...
Celebrating 30 Years of Impact and Uplifting America with HOPE
Thirty years ago, from the ashes of a smoldering city impacted by violence and despair a beacon of hope emerged for the poor, the forgotten, and the disenfranchised: Operation HOPE. From its inception, HOPE has always been a source of inspiration for the potential...
Moving from Hurt to Healing: HOPE Bus Tour Featured on Front Cover of LA Times’ California Section
Last week, Operation HOPE hosted a community bus tour in Los Angeles to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the LA Riots. The riots, which were the major catalyst for the birth of Operation HOPE, stemmed from a mixture of racial tension and police brutality. However,...
How Unfilled Potholes Can Thwart Tens of Millions in Economic Investment in Cities
On the eve of me personally paying seven figures in taxes to the federal and the Georgia state government, I found myself standing over potholes in my broader neighborhood the size of a small car, and large enough to take off a wheel. https://vimeo.com/701321347 And...
Honored to be Appointed to Board of Trustees for Clark Atlanta University
The place where immense history took place for African Americans in the nation following the Civil War, is Clark Atlanta University (CAU). The place that stood up the first Black business school in the American South following the American Civil War. The place that...