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