Symposium date: January 29, 2018
In his PrepTalk, John Hope Bryant makes an impassioned case for emergency managers to include financial literacy as a priority in their communities. He also asks emergency managers to consider how disaster recovery dollars could improve the financial resilience of community members that live in poverty. Bryant’s recent focus is on working with banks and other community organizations to help individuals dramatically improve their credit scores.
John Hope Bryant is founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, Inc., the nonprofit provider of financial dignity education and economic empowerment programs. He is the author of the bestselling books, The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation and How the Poor can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class.
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