2003

In 2003
John Hope Bryant and Operation HOPE created the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit (EFFAK), now an official federal government document (FEMA document #532) available at no cost to all Americans.
 

July, 2003
edition of Black Enterprise Magazine, John Hope Bryant featured as one of nine leaders for the African-American community for the 21st Century.
 

June, 2003
John Hope Bryant was selected to testify before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services in the first ever hearings on financial literacy and the un-banked.
 

June 5, 2003
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Operation HOPE Chairman John Hope Bryant and President J. Alfred Broaddus of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, co-taught a Banking on Our Future financial literacy session at John Philip Sousa Middle School in South East Washington, D.C., highlighting the national importance of financial literacy in our economy and amongst the nation’s youth.
 

April-May, 2003
John Hope Bryant conducted a national tour featuring Banking on Our Future program co-teaching sessions with presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Chicago, St. Louis,. Richmond, Dallas and Cleveland respectively, as well as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Chairman Alan Greenspan.
 

January, 2003
John Hope Bryant was selected by L.A. Focus Magazine as one of the 30 Most Influential Blacks in Los Angeles