The Latin Business Association is proud to partner with Operation HOPE in presenting:

The 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour

“From Chaos to Community”

Operation HOPE’S 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour a Huge Success!

Operation HOPE’S 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour – “From Chaos to Community” – Tuesday, April 24, 2012 was a tremendous success! Over 500 people participated, filling eleven buses for the tour! So powerful was this event and all it represents, that while sixteen media companies were expected to cover it, HOPE’S 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour drew coverage by no less than twenty five!

Bravo, Operation HOPE… and the communities of all peoples who comprise the Great City of Los Angeles!

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20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour Event Photos

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WHAT: Operation HOPE 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour Kickoff

WHERE: Operation HOPE Financial Dignity Center – Los Angeles

3721 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Tel: 213.891.2906
Additional details provided as they become available.

WHEN: 9:00AM – 11:30AM PST | April 24, 2012

Operation HOPE Hosts 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour

Mayor Villaraigosa, Quincy Jones, Ambassador Andrew Young, Peter Ueberroth, and others headline bus tour, from “From Chaos to Community,” through inner-city Los Angeles:

Los Angeles, CA – On April 24, 2012, John Hope Bryant, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, will be joined by respected entertainers, public servants and business leaders to kick off the ‘Opportunity Bus Tour’ from Los Angeles to mark the 20th anniversary of Operation HOPE, whose activities are sustained by its longtime corporate supporting partners Toyota, Union Bank and Wells Fargo and the event co-chairs, who include:

Event Agenda

8:30 am – Registration and Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Acknowledgements
Opening Remarks
20 Years of Highlights
Special Keynote Remarks
Closing Remarks

10:00 am – 20th Anniversary Opportunity Bus Tour

RSVP: Registration is required at event website:

20years.operationhope.org/bustour/registration

HOPE’S Story

On April 29, 1992, after a jury acquitted four white Los Angeles police officers who had been videotaped beating black motorist Rodney King, the city exploded into riots. Six days later, over $1 billion in property damage had occurred—mostly in underserved neighborhoods.

The riots were a protest not just against racial discrimination and police violence, but against a system that protects the privileged and keeps the poor in their place. Operation HOPE was founded to break down that barrier between privileged and poor.

Today, HOPE is America’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to financial literacy and economic empowerment. We’ve reached over 1.2 million individuals in 70 U.S. cities, South Africa and Haiti.

About Operation HOPE

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Operation HOPE promotes financial dignity through financial literacy and education tools to underserved communities. Through its four core portfolios, the organization has provided youth and adult financial literacy, economic preparedness, digital empowerment, promoted home ownership and assisted with foreclosure prevention to more than 2 million individuals, families and small business owners.

Operation Hope is an LBA Community Partner. Please read about
LBA Community Partners

Learn more about Operation HOPE

Operation HOPE, Inc.
World Headquarters
707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 3030
Los Angeles, California 90017
Tel: (213) 891-2908
Fax: (213) 489-7511

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