On Thursday, November 19, I will be in Charlotte as the Impact Keynote Speaker for United Way of Greater Charlotte’s 95th anniversary celebration, “In Our United Era: Celebrating 95 Years of Impact.” Ninety-five years is a long time to keep showing up for a community. United Way of Greater Charlotte
New Haven, we are coming to you. On Wednesday, October 28, John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, is a guest on Good Morning Connecticut on WTNH News 8. The show airs live 9 to 10 a.m. ET, and his conversation with the hosts comes in the
Powered by Operation HOPE and HOPE AI. Inspired by my mother, Ms. Juanita Smith. My mother made between $15 and $18 an hour as a seamstress at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft for 32 years. She had a high school education. She also had a credit score of 854, a number that
On Saturday, November 7, I will be in Cleveland for the 25th anniversary of the PowerNetworking Conference, and I have been asked to deliver the keynote at the Black Tie Gala. Dr. George C. Fraser has long taught that relationships are a form of capital. In books like Success Runs
I am bringing the Capitalism for All conversation to Memphis on Monday, November 9. I will sit down with Mayor Paul Young at the Cossitt Library for a fireside chat and audience Q&A, and we will record a podcast conversation while we are there. The afternoon begins with a reception
Business Is the New Bridge From the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant. A conversation on the Melanin Money Show The cameras weren’t even rolling when this conversation started. We were talking off the record, and the hosts stopped me and said, hold on, the people
Jams M. Wells, III, otherwise known to be and his friend as the beloved Jim Wells, has been Promoted. Gone on to be with the Father. Let me tell you a little about, my friend. Jim led one of the largest banks in America, and the first thing I would
Registration is open for HOPE Global Forums 2026 in Atlanta: Capitalism, Tech, and AI in a Human-Centric World.
On Wednesday, October 28, I will be at NXTHVN in New Haven for a live conversation with Black Kidds Read Too, followed by Q&A and a book signing.
On Thursday, October 22, I will be at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington, DC for a conversation with Jonathan Capehart on Capitalism for All.
Oct 19, 2026 · @John hope Bryant Only 15% of the Americans we surveyed believe capitalism is working the way it is supposed to for hardworking people. And 87% of those same Americans are hopeful about their financial future. Both numbers are true at the same time. That gap between
On Monday, October 19, John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, joined Michael Milken at the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, for a special fireside chat series led ny Milken and his Milken Institute, on finance solutions to societal challenges and expanding economic mobility.
On Saturday, October 17, John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, took the stage in Buffalo for Building a Way Forward, a morning event hosted by the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers at 2365 Main Street. Tickets were offered at no cost, every dollar of support went
Grammy-winning producer Dallas Austin joins Money & Wealth to talk about work-for-hire contracts, a million-dollar tax debt, and the road from talent to ownership.
Executive Summary: A Black Business Plan for AmericaFrom Customers to Capitalists Black America is not a charity case. It is a $2.1 trillion market. Black consumers spend at the scale of one of the world’s 15 largest economies, account for one in every eight dollars at America’s checkout counters, and
From Customers to Capitalists: What ‘Capitalism for All’ Asks of Black America, and What It Offers the Nation By John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc. We were the capital before we were ever allowed to own capital. By 1860, nearly 4 million enslaved Black people in
Every so often a founder says out loud what most of us carry in private. @whoismandachi did that in the video above, and I could not stop thinking about it. I want to add three things to what he said. First, the person writing the check carries something the person
This Saturday, October 17, I will be at the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers for a conversation about your financial future, with a free copy of Capitalism for All for every adult.
This morning I joined DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson for the opening fireside chat at the 2026 DeKalb County Small Business Summit on building wealth through entrepreneurship.
On Friday, October 16, I will keynote the luncheon at the 8th Annual Minorities & Women’s Business Economic Empowerment Summit in Syracuse, New York, and sign copies of Capitalism for All afterward.
On October 13 I delivered the luncheon keynote on Capitalism for All at the 4th Annual Upstate Talent Forum, hosted by USC Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
By John Hope Bryant Today is my friend Tony Ressler’s birthday, and I want to take a moment to say something publicly that I’ve said to him privately more than once: the world is better because Tony Ressler is in it. Most people know Tony by his résumé. He helped
A conversation with David Shands on the Social Proof Podcast Every now and then, you sit down for an interview and it stops being an interview. It becomes a real conversation between two people who are willing to tell the truth. My time with David Shands on the Social Proof
Operation HOPE Founder brings a message of inclusive capitalism and AI literacy to Abu Dhabi and Dubai during a visit led by the Abu Dhabi Investment Office.
Mayor Andre Dickens returns as Co-Chair as the 12th Annual Meeting takes on “Capitalism, Tech, and AI in a Human-Centric World,” December 2-3 at the Signia by Hilton in Atlanta.
More than 300 neighbors joined Operation HOPE, West Angeles CDC and Mayor Karen Bass in Los Angeles for a night on AI, resilience and building wealth.
Still Here When Capitalism for All launched on March 31st, I knew the first few weeks would be loud. Launch weeks always are. There’s the tour, the television, the lists, the friends who show up because they love you. What I didn’t know was whether it would last. Six months
Good Soil Forum asked me back, and I was glad to say yes. On Thursday, October 8, I was at the Irving Convention Center in the Dallas Metroplex for the opening day of GSF26, a three-day gathering of more than 1,500 entrepreneurs and business builders running October 8 through 10.
By John Hope Bryant I came to Abu Dhabi to talk about the future — and before I left, I got an opportunity to experience a different kind of future at speed. During an extraordinary week in the United Arab Emirates, including speaking at LIVEX and meeting with leaders across
Gallup has measured hope with Operation HOPE for years, so it meant a lot when Jon Clifton, Gallup’s CEO, invited me onto Leading With Strengths. Gallup titled our conversation “The Strategy of Hope.” We talked about how my top five CliftonStrengths have shaped the way I lead: Those strengths are
On Tuesday, October 6, I was at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport for the 8th Annual Mass Black Expo, hosted by the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA). I sat down for a keynote conversation at 11:30 a.m. ET, and afterward I signed copies of Capitalism for All
John Hope Bryant on why HOPE Global Forums 2026 centers Capitalism, Tech, and AI in a Human-Centric World, and why registration is open now.
AI literacy is the civil rights work of this generation, and the window to get our people through it won’t stay open forever. From John Hope Bryant’s Unlocking Success newsletter.
John Hope Bryant on why AI literacy is the next chapter of the civil rights movement, and why Atlanta, the city of Dr. King, is positioned to lead it.
John Hope Bryant’s essay in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 50th anniversary journal makes the case that AI literacy is the next chapter of the civil rights movement.
A woman posted a video saying segregation should never have ended. I took her seriously, because a lot of people feel what she feels, and I answered her in a short video of my own. EURweb wrote up that answer on September 29. Here is where I land. Black America
At 19, Michael Ellison called the main line at Goldman Sachs with no contacts and no suit. Hear how the CodePath co-founder and CEO turned that call into a movement, and what he believes AI means for your job and your wealth.
“If You Don’t Quit, You Can’t Fail.” What My Friend, Partner and Business Mentor Taught Me About Capital, Patience and Opportunity That Lasts. A new episode of Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant — Season 3, on the Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartRadio Most weeks on Money &
John Hope Bryant’s playbook for getting your household ready for a downturn: don’t panic, prepare, position and prosper.
PACE NEWS Editor-in-Chief Dr. Gloria Zuurveen was in the room at Baldwin Hills when John Hope Bryant brought Capitalism for All home to Los Angeles.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council has endorsed Operation HOPE’s 1MBB NEXT GEN and is calling Divine Nine members to mentor young Black entrepreneurs.
A Companion to the 2026 Operation HOPE Report Card A NOTE FROM OUR PRESIDENT & CFO Why We Publish This Our report card tells you what we believe we’ve built. This document tells you how to check our work. Every figure here comes from an independent source — Charity Navigator’s
Operation HOPE programs, impacts and outcomes report card September 2026
One Hundred Readers Capitalism For All just crossed 100 reader reviews on Amazon, holding a 4.7-star average and a Best Seller badge in its category. Let me be honest about what that number is and what it isn’t. It isn’t a sales figure. It isn’t a bestseller list — we
September 16, 2026 CIM Group and Bryant Group Ventures have expanded the investment capacity of their affordable housing fund to more than $370 million after securing a new capital commitment from Fifth Third Bank and increased commitments from existing investors Truist Bank and Flagstar Bank. The latest closing gives the
ATLANTA, Sept. 15, 2026 John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, issued the following statement: “Fifty years ago, T.D. Jakes preached his first sermon to a room you could count. Fifty years later, the count is in the millions. What I have always admired about Bishop Jakes
Last Monday, I got back in the car. I hadn’t seriously driven my Radical RXC 600R in months. And after enough time away from something this demanding, doubt can begin to creep in. Am I still sharp? Do I still have it? Can I still do this at the level
PROOF OVER PROMISES The 2026 Operation HOPE “Silver Rights” Report Card A letter from the Founder, Chairman & CEO — and a public accounting of what free enterprise has built for the people it was built for. 4M+ SERVED $4.5B+ DIRECTED 1,500+ LOCATIONS 469K+ BLACK BUSINESSES HOPE GLOBAL FORUM •
A single mom in Atlanta bought a used Nissan Altima in 2018 for $21,000. Six years later, she had paid $38,000 on it, still owed $15,000, and the engine had just died. The car was worth about $5,000. That’s the story that opens this replay episode of Money & Wealth.
Twenty-five years ago this morning, 2,977 people went to work, boarded planes, or answered a call for help, and did not come home. They were traders and dishwashers, secretaries and window washers, priests and flight attendants, firefighters and police officers and paramedics who climbed toward the fire while everyone else
On 11Alive, John Hope Bryant explains why AI is this generation’s automobile, and what Atlanta families should do about it right now.
Two Nights, One City, and the People Who Made the Homecoming Possible Los Angeles raised me in ways this country will never fully understand until it reads the whole story — and some of the fullest chapters of that story are unfolding this week, right here, back home. Tonight and
Another milestone for the inclusive capitalism movement — this time, moving up. Capitalism for All: Inclusive Economics and the Future-Proofing of America, with Forwards by Ambassador Andrew J. Young, Michael Milken and Ed Bastian, jumped two spots to land at #7 on SUCCESS Magazine’s September Bestsellers list for Money —
A Tribute to King Harald V of Norway, and a Salute to My Friend and Brother, King Haakon VIII By John Hope Bryant Some friendships do not begin with fanfare. Mine with Haakon began in a conference room, and then an evening reception hall, in the earliest class of the
I learned of King Harald’s passing with real sadness. On behalf of Operation HOPE, I send our condolences to Queen Sonja, to King Haakon VIII and Queen Mette-Marit, and to the people of Norway. King Harald reigned for 35 years. He was a boy when the Nazis took his country,
On this episode of The Enterprise Zone, CEO of Operation HOPE John Hope Bryant sat down with Forbes to discuss financial literacy, economic sentiment, and his $1 billion affordable housing impact fund launched alongside CIM Group. Bryant is the CEO of Bryant Group Ventures and discussed his inclusion on Forbes’s
From a $40 candy business to a 400-person organization, John Hope Bryant breaks down what an entrepreneur really is.
Frank Ski made room for a long, honest conversation on Frankly Speaking. We went past the public version of my story to the boy in South Central and Compton who grew up without financial capital and learned to build relationship capital instead. From there we got practical: ownership, entrepreneurship, why
I recorded a recent episode of Money and Wealth from Maui, in the middle of the night, with the Pacific Ocean in the background, and what struck me was the quiet. Not empty, not lonely. Simply quiet. It reminded me of an observation I made that went viral. Go into
She built wealth by owning what she made, then gave it away to people who looked nothing like her. That’s the whole lesson. The world lost Dolly Parton this week. She was 80. I want to send my condolences to her family, to the people of Sevier County, Tennessee, who
I was glad to be back in Huntington, West Virginia. On August 27, Marshall University welcomed me to the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center as part of the Marshall Artist Series for an evening on Capitalism for All, in conversation with my friend President Brad D. Smith. I told
The morning of my evening at Marshall University, Dave and TJ had me on MetroNews Talkline, the statewide show West Virginians start their day with. In 24 minutes we covered capitalism, financial literacy, artificial intelligence and Capitalism for All. West Virginia knows what it means when an economy changes underneath
Victoria Fortune asked me to talk about something most families avoid until it is too late: what happens to a family’s money, and its peace, when someone passes without a will or a plan. I talked about losing my own parents and what that season taught me about healing, estate
On Portia, John Hope Bryant shares the $40 candy business that started it all, why financial literacy is a civil rights issue, and how to get ready for AI.
Sixty years ago, a single mother from South Central Los Angeles taught herself the language of money. Now her name is on Operation HOPE’s AI financial coach. From John Hope Bryant’s Unlocking Success newsletter.
John Hope Bryant introduces Juanita AI, named for his mother, and explains what the AI economy means for your job.
YOU NEED TO KNOW MY FRIEND STRIVE MASIYIWA. This is one of those conversations. My friend Strive Masiyiwa is one of the great entrepreneurs and institution builders of our generation—and if you live in America, there’s a good chance you don’t know nearly enough about him. Every once in a
This was special. A totally unsolicited encouragement of the lessons in my newest bestselling book ‘Capitalism for All,’ from the organizers of a business conference, Ms. Delphine Bryant (no relationship to me) and her Visionaires Conference and Gala in Greater Atlanta. A special thank you to my friend Ash Cash
BRYANT JOURNAL Haiti’s Forgotten Sacrifice — and the 122-Year Bill It Was Handed for Winning By John Hope Bryant There is a story most Americans were never taught in school, and once you hear it, you will never look at a map of the United States quite the same way
A Bryant Journal piece I wrote Capitalism for All to make an argument, not to collect compliments. But somewhere around the fourth or fifth month of watching the reviews come in, I started noticing something I didn’t expect: readers were handing the argument back to me, in their own words,
Powered by Operation HOPE and HOPE AI. Inspired by my mother, Ms. Juanita Smith. A Bryant Journal piece My mother’s name was Juanita Murray Smith, and on August 6th, it went to work in a way I could never have imagined when I was a kid watching her rebuild her
A Bryant Journal Foundational piece Every book I’ve written has been an argument. This one is the argument — the one all the others were building toward, whether I knew it at the time or not. I wrote Capitalism for All because I believe America is standing at a decision
A Bryant Journal Foundational piece Two young people graduate in the same month. One walks across the stage at Harvard, degree in hand, surrounded by classmates whose parents run companies, foundations, law firms, sometimes entire countries. The other walks across the stage at the local community college, proud to be
A Bryant Journal Foundational piece In March of 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing the Freedman’s Bureau, and inside it, something I consider one of the most quietly radical acts in American economic history: the Freedman’s Bank. Frederick Douglass, one of my heroes, the most photographed human and the
A Bryant Journal Foundational piece If I handed a homeless man a million dollars today, I would bet against him having it in six months. If I handed a rich man with no knowledge in his head the same amount, I would bet against him keeping it for a generation.
A Bryant Journal Foundations piece Ask ten people to define poverty and nine of them will give you a number. A line on a government chart. An income threshold, adjusted for family size, updated once a year by people who have never had to live under it. I am not
A Bryant Journal Foundational piece On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks kept her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Everyone knows what came next in the history books: the boycott, Dr. King’s rise to leadership, the marches, the speeches, the laws that eventually followed. What most people don’t know
A Bryant Journal Foundational piece Every so often, a country has to stop and decide, out loud, who actually gets to belong to it. Not on paper. Not in theory. In practice — in bank accounts, in property deeds, in who gets to sit at the table where the decisions
Editorial Reviews Review “Capitalism for All is a call to reimagine our economy as a vehicle for justice, not just prosperity. It reminds us that when every person is granted access to opportunity and ownership, we move closer to the promise of a nation that truly works for all. This
This piece is inspired from my newest bestselling book ‘Capitalism for All.’ A Bryant Journal Foundations piece I have said the phrase “Third Way” in boardrooms. I have said it in congressional hearings. I have said it in church basements and community centers and, more recently, in a radio studio
On this episode of The Enterprise Zone, Founder and CEO of Bryant Group Ventures and Operation HOPE John Hope Bryant sat down with Forbes to discuss financial literacy, economic sentiment, and his $1 billion affordable housing impact fund launched alongside CIM Group (CIM-BGV Impact Ventures). Bryant is the CEO of
Inside the vision for HOPE Goodwill Ambassadors — and the movement they’re building, one community at a time I have spent more than three decades of my life trying to solve one problem: how do you make free enterprise and capitalism work for everybody, not just the people who were
The casino now lives in your pocket. John Hope Bryant on why the house always wins, and how to bet on yourself instead.
Why the next chapter of American capitalism has to be built on access, not just output Every few months, someone hands me the same set of numbers and asks me to be impressed. GDP is up. The market is at a record. Spending is resilient. And every few months, I
On Jannick Malling and the Future of Public Markets Companion piece to “The New Rules of Investing: AI, Capitalism & Wealth Creation” I met Jannick Malling in a green room. Neither of us knew the other. We both had handlers whose job, frankly, is to keep people like us from
On the Silver Rights Movement, and what a Walmart in the Inland Empire has to do with it Eastvale, California doesn’t look like a place where history gets made. It’s a young city — incorporated only in 2010 — built in the flatlands of the Inland Empire, an hour east
Most people aren’t angry at the rich. They’re angry at a system that feels rigged. John Hope Bryant makes the case for good capitalism.
John Hope Bryant Thanks the Community That Turned a Message Into a Movement Let me start with the number that stopped me in my tracks this week: 700,000. That’s how many of you now follow this journey on Instagram alone. And when my team added up every platform — Instagram,
John Hope Bryant and BG Ventures partner with CIM Group, raise more than $300 million in investment capital for affordable housing multi family
John Hope Bryant interview for Forbes 250 Greatest Living Self Made Americans
There’s a particular kind of gratitude that hits differently than the applause you’re standing in front of. A few nights ago, at the Visionaires Conference in Atlanta, the organizers did something I had no hand in, no advance knowledge of, and honestly, no idea was even being planned. They put
I could have handed this hour to a guest. I didn’t. Every so often there’s something I need to say to you myself directly, with no interpreter, no middleman. And this is one of those times. So, for this episode, I sat down alone, for a full hour, two parts,
Jeffrey Kass Jul 18, 2026 3 min read Bryant’s prescription for closing the racial wealth gap. I had the distinct pleasure of attending a talk by visionary entrepreneur and economic activist John Hope Bryant, and I left with one resounding takeaway: If Black people are going to close the racial wealth gap,
John Hope Bryant on CNBC with Brian Sullivan on new affordable housing legislation
John Hope Bryant appears on the Breakfast Club to discuss the new federal affordable housing legislation and how it will impact new homeowners
MONEY & WEALTH · SEASON 3 · EPISODE COMPANION What Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid taught me about money, trust, and the American Dream — in the 250th year of our nation John Hope Bryant and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Jeff Schmid, Money & Wealth podcast
Coming Friday to Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE When John Hope Bryant says he only brings someone onto Money & Wealth when two plus two can equal six, eight, or ten, he means it. This Friday, he sits down with a
When I say I only reach outside myself for the best of the best, I mean it. Today, that means a woman who moves through rooms in Abu Dhabi, Lagos, Mexico City, and Wall Street with the same quiet authority, and who, when she opens her mouth, nobody questions. Meet
John Hope Bryant, Oprah and Forbes 250 Greatest Living Self Made Americans celebration in Pa
In Philadelphia, at the birthplace of American democracy, the woman who started with nothing stood as America’s greatest self-made success story. That is not coincidence. That is proof. I have spent my life talking about the distance between poverty and possibility. I have argued — in boardrooms and on stages,
