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HOPE Center New York celebrated the 8th Commencement ceremony of the Entrepreneurial Training Program by graduating eighteen business owners.
A week before graduation, ETP Students worked on their final projects that marked the culmination of the 12-week Entrepreneur Training Program. Some students found themselves searching for more facts about their competition while others constructed ideas for a new business plan.
On Wednesday January 30th, 2013 Operation HOPE in New Orleans held its 6th Graduation Ceremony at the Blue Plate Artists Loft honoring six artists who completed the twelve week Entrepreneurial Program (ETP).
Starting a business in the current economy can seem like an unachievable dream. But Leroy Jackson has already shown that he can beat the odds. Now, with the help of Operation HOPE's Small Business Empowerment Program and the new Kiva Zip program, Leroy is turning his dreams into action and raising funds to start his own accounting and tax preparation business, The Jackson Group, LLC.
HOPE Financial Dignity Center New Orleans held a graduation ceremony for eight graduates of the Entrepreneurial Training Program (ETP).
The twelve ETP evening classes were in conjunction with the Jefferson Parish Library located on the West Bank in Gretna, Louisiana. The graduates worked on business plans for their entrepreneurial efforts over the twelve weeks.
Eight persons completed the twelve week program and a...
On Saturday, December 15, 2012, HOPE Financial Dignity Center D.C. (HOPE Center DC) held a celebratory graduation to individually recognize the Small Business Entrepreneurship Training Program Cohort 3 class of 2012.
Twenty-three newly trained small business entrepreneurs completed the training and developed their business plans.
Mr. Tyoka Jackson delivered the keynote address to the graduates. Mr. Jackson is a...
The HOPE Financial Dignity Center Atlanta at Ebenezer, Small Business Entrepreneur Training Program (ETP), 2012 Cohort 3, graduated 21 individuals- lovingly dubbed the “Trailblazing Twenty-one”- on December 21, 2012.
The Trailblazing Twenty-one was the first cohort to graduate from the new Atlanta HOPE Financial Dignity Center located at Ebenezer Church.
The Honorable Ambassador Andrew Young spoke to the...
A few months ago the HOPE Financial Dignity Center, New York (HOPE Center New York) implemented the Small Business Incubator (SBI), after conducting an assessment with input from local business owners in the Harlem community and the obstacles facing them as they work to grow their businesses.
The HOPE Center New York team responded to the needs of local business owners by creating the HOPE SBI program with is...
Twenty is the number for celebration and success at Operation HOPE in 2012 as the organization recently celebrated twenty years of service in Atlanta last month with the HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit, followed by Oakland HOPE Center’s twentieth Entrepreneur Training Workshop graduation and networking event on Thursday December 7, 2012, at the Oakland HOPE Financial Dignity Center.
It was an evening filled...
The fall in Denver was marked with the exciting pilot of HOPE Business in A Box (HBIAB). HBIAB, HOPE’s newest initiative for youth entrepreneurship, has been busy educating youth at Montbello High School, one of Denver’s Turnaround Schools. The 30 youth in the program participated in BOOF, followed by a spirited day learning skills and developing business plans from two business leaders in the Denver...
HOPE Financial Dignity Center, Oakland, Small Business- Entrepreneurship Training Program participants are all preparing for business plans and final presentation scheduled.
The Oakland office will hold Peer Competitions in which each participant will give a five minute presentation their fellow Entrepreneurship Training Program participants, who will later vote on best five presentation and who will continue...
November 27, 2012, New York- The Harlem HOPE Financial Dignity Center had the pleasure of graduating 14 budding entrepreneurs from our Entrepreneurial Training Program. The graduation event was honored to have Operation HOPE’s New York Market CEO, Mrs. Mary Hagerty-Ersham, and Harlem HOPE Center Vice President, Ms. Donna Burton, share words of encouragement to the entrepreneurs.
The 14 graduates have chosen a...
ETP Program Graduates Honored by NY State Senator
New Orleans Entrepreneurs Finish Training, Look Ahead to Success
Artists Turned Entrepreneurs in New Orleans
Micro-Lending Making Small Business Dreams a Reality: HOPE Center D.C. Client Leroy Jackson Featured on Kiva Zip
HOPE Center New Orleans Westbank Entrepreneur Training Graduation
HOPE Center DC Honors 23 Entrepreneur Training Program Graduates
HOPE Center Atlanta at Ebenezer Graduates 21 Individuals from the Entrepreneur Training Program
HOPE Center New York Small Business Incubator Assisting Local Business Owners
Oakland 6th Grade Students Learn About Entrepreneurship
To close out the 2012, over 200 Oakland 6th graders from Westlake Middle School will have the opportunity to be empowered in HOPE’s newest initiative, HOPE Business in a Box. Over the next three weeks, five volunteers will teach these students the process of turning a personal interest, dream and skill into a viable business idea and the art of pitching the ideas. In January these students will have the...Oakland HOPE Center Honors Graduates From The 12-Week Entrepreneur Training Program
HOPE Business In A Box Debutes in Denver
Oakland Entrepreneur Training Program Participants Prep For Final Presentations and Graduation
New York HOPE Center Entrepreneur Graduation
Operation HOPE is America's leading nonprofit social investment banking and financial literacy empowerment organization.
Through several global initiatives and its three principal programs: Banking on Our Future (teaching school children about money), HOPE Coalition America (financial emergency preparedness and disaster recovery), and the HOPE Center Banking Network (loans, bill pay, computer literacy, understanding banking principles)HOPE is leading the “silver rights” movement towards making free enterprise and capitalism relevant to all underserved communities.
For more information about Banking on Our Future or other programs, visit us at our website.
