Operation HOPE’s John Hope Bryant Announces His Business Plan for America at 2024 Milken Institute Global Conference
07 Mayo 2024 - 7:03PM
Business Wire
Operation HOPE, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping low-
and moderate-income Americans thrive in an ever-changing economy,
announced that its Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
John Hope Bryant revealed yesterday the details of his Business
Plan for America: A Case for the Big Tent at the 2024 Milken
Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
Using historical data and comparative analysis, The Business
Plan for America outlines the case that in order for America to
continue as a leading economic superpower, we must recognize how
critical our diversity is to our success. He details:
- How America’s demographics are trending toward becoming
majority-minority
- How successful capitalism models rely on diverse
populations
- Why suppressing DEI initiatives is bad for business
- Why we need to invest in the economic future of people of color
– primarily through financial literacy
- Why we need to increase individual wealth for all to ensure
America’s global leadership position
Mr. Bryant detailed his plan at the Milken Conference during a
closed-door, off-the-record session titled “The DEI Shake-Up:
Assessing Progress and Pushback” with fellow panelists Bill Ackman
(Founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital), Dina DiLorenzo
(President, Guggenheim Investments), Jarvis V. Hollingsworth
(Chair, Teacher Retirement System of Texas), and R. Don Peebles
(Chairman, The Peebles Corporation).
“America’s greatest resource is its people, and we are doing a
disservice to our country’s future by not taking an honest look at
where our people are financially, how we got here and how we can
make sure that every American has the opportunity to generate
wealth. The facts about where we are as a nation in a globally
competitive landscape and where our people are in terms of their
own financial security are both critically important and
underappreciated. My Business Plan for America was created to help
us focus on the long-term as we move toward a majority-minority
population and to help us strengthen the ladder to upward mobility
to secure our collective future,” said Mr. Bryant.
About Operation HOPE, Inc. Since 1992, Operation HOPE has
been moving America from civil rights to "silver rights" with the
mission of making free enterprise and capitalism work for the
underserved—disrupting poverty for millions of low and
moderate-income youth and adults across the nation. Through its
community uplift model, HOPE Inside, which received the 2016
Innovator of the Year recognition by American Banker magazine,
Operation HOPE has served more than 4 million individuals and
directed more than $3.2 billion in economic activity into
disenfranchised communities—turning check-cashing customers into
banking customers, renters into homeowners, small business dreamers
into small business owners, minimum wage workers into living wage
consumers, and uncertain disaster victims into financially
empowered disaster survivors. For more information:
OperationHOPE.org. Follow the HOPE conversation on Twitter,
Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
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