Operation HOPE

America Saves Week 2011

February 20-27 2011 is America Saves Week. It is a time when all Americans are asked to assess their savings progress and take action to build wealth, not debt. 

Find out how you can participate  at  www.americasavesweek.org

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In line with President Obama’s priority for innovation and entrepreneurship as stated in his State of the Union Address, Operation HOPE DC hosts event and to engage White House interns and the Howard business students as HOPE Corps volunteers. The event, which will educate over 50 local high school students in financial literacy, and innovation will take place Saturday from 12:15-3:00 at 2509 Good Hope Road, S.E. in Washington DC.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

On Friday February 4, HOPE Market Vice-President Leo Cablayan will speak at the “Full Steam Ahead” teacher’s conference held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

The conference will speak to best practices in education. Cablayan will speak on Operation HOPE’s partnership with Bank on the West and how HOPE’s Banking on Our Future program can inspire students and support teachers.

Conference information can be found at www.townhall-la.org under events.

Advocating for the needs of under-resourced individuals and actively promoting the importance of financial literacy and economic empowerment for youth and adults, John Hope Bryant received numerous recognitions for his work in 2010.

Highlights include:

•             Andrew Goodman Foundation "Hidden Heroes" award.

•             The Root Top 100 for 2010

•             Booker Rising, an organization honoring the legacy of Booker T. Washington

•             2010 Heroes for Newsmax Magazine. Bryant was recognized amongst former President Bill Clinton and former President George W. Bush

•             "Surviving and Thriving."  -- Featured as one of the 365 essential Black Economic History Facts in Dr. Julianne Malveaux's book

•             Listed as top 25 bestselling business books for the 12th time for LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World

For more, visit www.operationhope.org

Today Operation HOPE announced a five-year partnership with MasterCard Worldwide to support the nonprofit's overall mission to promote financial literacy and economic empowerment to individuals across the nation and worldwide.

HOPE Founder John Bryant said, “I believe there is much more that the payments industry can do to help educate consumers on the use of electronic payments and which solutions are best suited to help them achieve financial independence and realize their potential, for example, I remember as a young man trying to become an entrepreneur how a few well managed credit cards also helped me launch, bridge and grow many of my initial business ideas when traditional forms of capital were simply unavailable to me.”

For more on this relationship visit www.operationhope.org.

With a  $500,000 commitment that will help promote youth financial literacy programs in schools, HOPE announced that Union Bank, N.A. is the founding sponsor of the FIVE MILLION KIDS Initiative (5MK) through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. In a ceremony at the HOPE Oakland Financial Literacy Empowerment Forum on October 19, 2010, Union Bank Vice Chairman and Chief Retail Banking Officer Timothy H. Wennes and Union Bank Senior Executive Vice President, Community Banking, who also serves on HOPE’s National Board, Pierre P. Habis signed the agreement with HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant.

Thanks to everyone involved and we look forward to seeing more from 5MK in 2011!

Nonprofit Operation HOPE (HOPE) today announced that Anand Nallathambi, the president and chief executive officer of CoreLogic (NYSE:  CLGX), will join its national board of directors.

“Our relationship with Anand goes back several years,” said Operation HOPE President and COO Bill Walbrecher. “He has been an active supporter of HOPE, and now we are excited to have him help steward the organization as we continue to expand our suite of financial literacy services."

CoreLogic and its executives have been involved with HOPE since 2004 when CoreLogic operated as the Information Solutions Group, a subsidiary of The First American Corporation, for which Nallathambi served as president and chief operating officer.  CoreLogic became a separate company in June 2010.

Welcome aboard Anand!

Noted anti-poverty activist John Hope Bryant will serve as speaker at this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast, the Decatur-Morgan County Minority Development Association announced Saturday.

Bryant, who founded Operation Hope following the 1992 Rodney King riots, is both a leading financial literacy proponent and philanthropic entrepreneur. The mission of the group he founded is to eradicate poverty within a single lifetime.

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