The official Financial Literacy Month event for Banking on Our Future (BOOF)-DC took place at Francis Scott Key Middle School located in Silver Spring, Maryland on April 19. Over 100 volunteers taught financial education in 37 individual classrooms reaching over 850 students. Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot participated by sharing remarks with the volunteers and also spending time in the classroom.
The DC market celebrated HOPE’s 20th Anniversary by celebrating local HOPE Corps volunteers. The event took place on Wednesday, October 3rd and was hosted by Microsoft.
The event was fun for all and the guests enjoyed the scrumptious food & spirits, VIP photos, XBox gaming station and dessert on the roof-top.
Remarks were offered by Founder, CEO and Chairman John Hope Bryant, Mid Atlantic Board Chair...
On August 23, Operation HOPE Senior Vice President Mary Hagerty traveled to Baltimore for a meeting with PNC Bank and HOPE's Eastern Regional VP Jackie Starr and Baltimore Program Manager Dionne Waldron.