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HOPE Global Forums 2025: Future Proofing, and the Launch of HOPE AI
December 3, 2025Every December, HOPE Global Forums brings leaders from business, government, faith and community to Atlanta. Our 2025 Annual Meeting was built around one idea: future proofing. By 2030, the biggest issue in most people’s lives will be artificial intelligence. That is why we used the Forum to l
Operation HOPE Fourth Quarter 2025 Research Finds Respondents Cutting Holiday Spending Due to Increased Financial Challenges but Staying Optimistic About 2026
December 2, 2025ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Operation HOPE, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping low- and moderate-income Americans thrive in an ever-changing economy, today released the fourth quarter 2025 results of The HOPE Insider, a comprehensive …
USC Upstate Johnson Innovation Speaker Series: Making America AI-Ready
November 19, 2025The University of South Carolina Upstate invited me to give the 2025 Johnson Innovation Speaker Series talk at the George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics. My topic was Making America AI-Ready: Literacy and Ethics for Every Learner. I talked with students and the community about t
Dee is replacing her paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle with plans to buy her first home
November 6, 2025Dee is a disabled war veteran who served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She came to Operation HOPE in April 2024 through a referral from the Savannah VA …
The Secrets of Racing with Shopify’s Tobi Lütke — And What It Teaches Us About Leadership
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National Mortgage News: The Affordable Housing Fund Is “Just the Beginning”
November 3, 2025The week we announced the CIM Group and Bryant Group Ventures affordable housing partnership, John Reosti of National Mortgage News sat down with me for a longer conversation about how it works. We found a capital stack that has never really been institutionalized, with Truist, Flagstar and City Nat
Rebuilding the World with AI
October 28, 2025From the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant. A Future Built by the Curious For years, we’ve been hearing that “artificial intelligence is coming!” For …
From HOPE to Homes: Why We Celebrate ‘Housing America Month’
At Operation HOPE, we know how important affordable housing can be. We have held clients’ hands as they walked from homelessness to renting to owning—achieving not only stability in their …
Good Soil Forum 2025: Faith, Capital and the Third Reconstruction
October 23, 2025The Good Soil Forum asked me to give its morning keynote on the Transformation Agenda. I spoke about faith, financial literacy and what it will take to rebuild our communities in what I call the third reconstruction. Faith and capital belong in the same conversation. One gives you the reason to buil
Memphis: Change Your Credit Score, Change Your Life
The Memphis Area Minority Contractors Association asked me to keynote its gala at the Cadre Building, and I brought the most practical message I have. Move your credit score 100 points. Nothing outside of God and the law will change your life faster than raising that number. I also told the room tha