Byline: Daily News More than 300 elementary school students will learn the basics of economics at a Tuesday event titled Banking on Our Future Across America, sponsored by Operation Hope.
Nonprofit's Banking on Our Future Office in the Chicago Area Recipient of $25K Donation LOS ANGELES -- Nonprofit Operation HOPE (HOPE) Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant today announced Banking on Our Future received a $25,000 grant from Oprah's Angel Network to target additional underserved youth in the Chicago area, making it the second time the organization has been recognized.
For the past 17 years the organization has been putting financial literacy at the forefront of the nation's agenda, empowering both adult and youth in financial literacy, through its core programs: HOPE Coalition America - the financial emergency preparedness and recovery division, currently featuring the Mortgage HOPE Crisis Hotline (888-388-HOPE); Banking on Our Future - the youth financial literacy training portfolio; the HOPE Banking Center Network - brick and mortar centers featuring internet access, credit management, home and small business loans, and with strong support from our growing family of more than 8,000 HOPE Corps volunteers.
Citigroup Foundation Awards $500,000 to Operation HOPE; "Banking on Our Future" Program Expands to South Africa DALLAS -- Building on the success of "Banking on Our Future," a financial education initiative designed to teach children the basics of managing their financial futures, Executive Vice President of Retail Banking for Citibank Texas, Bill Brown and Operation HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant, announced plans to expand the award-winning, Banking on Our Future program, into South Africa later this year.
10 Year Old Cleo Wilson of Denver, Colorado Celebrated as HOPE Child of the Decade; HOPE's Chief of Financial Literacy Initiatives, Mary Hagerty, Celebrates 9-Year Anniversary Leading Effort DENVER -- Operation HOPE (HOPE) celebrated the 10th anniversary of its award-winning financial literacy program for youth, Banking on Our Future (BOOF), and a critical component of its expanding "silver rights" movement, with the education of it 200,000th child, sixth-grader Cleo Wilson of Challenges and Choices Charter School in Denver, Colorado.
Hickenlooper and Operation HOPE Founder and CEO, John Hope Bryant, launched Banking on Our Future Denver, a financial empowerment program for Denver's youth today at the Challenges, Choices and Images Charter School.
