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The Business Plan for Cleveland at United Way’s Signature Fall Event

From the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant.

John Hope Bryant speaking at Playhouse Square in Cleveland
Image: United Way of Greater Cleveland

United Way of Greater Cleveland asked me to keynote its Signature Fall Event at Playhouse Square. My subject: the business plan for Cleveland, and the untold story of how we all succeed.

Every great American city has the same choice. It can manage poverty forever, or it can invest in the financial literacy, credit and ownership that move people into the middle class. Cleveland has the institutions to do the second one.


Source: United Way of Greater Cleveland, October 9, 2024.