2006

November, 2006
John Hope Bryant leads Dignity Day, Turkey and Dignity Day, India sessions with fellow members of the Forum of Young Global Leaders in Istanbul, Turkey and New Delhi, India, respectively. 

July 17, 2006
John Hope Bryant chaired the ”African Entrepreneurs” session of the VII Leon H. Sullivan Summit in Abuja, Nigeria, attending on behalf of HOPE Global Initiatives. 

May 18, 2006
John Hope Bryant accepted the Business of the Year Award from the Black Business Association of Los Angeles. 

May 3, 2006
John Hope Bryant and District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams co-hosted the first ever Anacostia Economic Summit outside of Washington, D.C. The summit was a historic event marking the first time ever that the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Ben Bernanke) and the President of the World Bank (Paul Wolfowitz) made a public policy speech in an American inner-city, low-wealth community. 

April 15, 2006
John Hope Bryant received the Vanguard (Man of the Year) Award from the Association of Black Harvard Women at Harvard University. 

March 31, 2006
John Hope Bryant and the work of Operation HOPE, in partnership with the New York Stock Exchange, was highlighted by President Bill Clinton at a special meeting of his Clinton Global Initiatives, where Mr. Bryant and Operation HOPE also became a member of Clinton Global Initiative 

March 16, 2006
John Hope Bryant received the Children’s Hero Award from the Say Yes to Children Network, a grassroots non-profit advocacy organization in South Los Angeles, California. 

February 27, 2006
John Hope Bryant and fellow Young Global Leaders HRH Crown Prince of Norway Haakon and Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland co-founded Global Dignity (www.globaldignity.org), a global campaign to defend the right for every human being to lead a dignified and empowered life. Global Dignity is an autonomous, non-profit and non-partisan project linked to the 2020 process of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. 

January 24-29, 2006
John Hope Bryant participated as a Young Global Leader and speaker before the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 

January 14, 2006
John Hope Bryant received the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Excellence in Leadership Award at the 38^th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Dinner marking the 77^th birthday of the late Dr. King, in Chicago, Illinois. The national award is presented to those “who best embody the ideals of the late civil rights icon and who are keeping King’s dream alive through their example.”