Appointed Goodwill Ambassador of UNCTAD

In May 1998, John Hope Bryant was appointed the first-ever United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Goodwill Ambassador for Partners for Development to the United States of America.

U.S. Community Development Agency Board

On June 13, 2004, John Hope Bryant became a Presidential appointee when U.S. President George W. Bush appointed him to a 4-year term on the non-partisan U.S. Community Development Advisory Board for the CDFI Fund at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Banking on Our Future

In April 1996, John Hope Bryant founded Banking on Our Future, today the leading urban delivery system for financial literacy education across America.