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HOPE Success Stories

Living in the Real World
March 20, 2024

Two years ago Macie came to Operation HOPE as a recent college graduate ready to take on the real world. Post-graduate life was great, but it proved to be much …

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Virginia Lands Huge Contract with Operation HOPE’s Help

Virginia Baket-Jeffcoat joined the Operation HOPE family in December, 2020 when she enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Training Program (ETP) facilitated by Ms. Judie Hayes, her financial wellbeing coach. Virginia has …

Meet the 7-Year Old, Financially Literate Girl Boss, Anastasia Linkpon

New York born and raised Anastasia Linkpon is the 7.5-year-old active, bilingual, and engaging second grader and now e-boutique owner of BoujFleaMarket and one of the youngest recipients of HOPE One …

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Continuing Education in Financial Literacy

Sybrynia Watts is just like many of us and the people we know. She’s smart, energetic, is a proud mother of three, and gives back to her community. She’s spent …

For Janell, It Simply Wasn’t Worth It

One day, Janell started taking notice of the creeping rise in rent prices and how close her monthly rent had come to the average mortgage payment. She then came to …

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Cooking Like Grandma Used To

Written by Stephanie Leak, Owner of Southern Noodle, HOPE Inside First Horizon Bank, Columbia SC I have always had a dream of following in my grandmother’s footsteps by cooking and …

Planting, Nurturing, and Growing One Dream at a Time

Adriana Rodriguez-Rivera is a nurturer, cultivator, and entrepreneur at heart. This 23-year old, stay at home mom has spent her adult life nurturing everything she comes in contact with and …

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Sean Refuses to Let a Minor Setback Stop His Major Success

Sean Hall made up his mind about his financial goals and never looked back. He began his journey towards financial wellbeing back in March 2020, days before the COVID-19 pandemic …

“I’m glad I didn’t give up.”

Michael T. Like many college students, Michael Tobias struggled to manage money and had accrued a significant amount of credit card debt and a poor credit score by the time graduation from …