In 1996, Operation HOPE, Inc. launched the first in a series of HOPE Centers that comprise the HOPE Banking Center Network (HBCN) nationwide in America’s under-served communities. The HBCN has over 250 public, private and community sector partners that support our work. These partnerships include federally-insured banks, credit unions, faith and community base organizations and federal government agencies that include the Department of Housing Urban Development (HUD), Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration). The HBCN is recognized as an approved housing and foreclosure prevention counseling agency by the Department of HUD.
The HBCN is a working “one stop” model location for empowerment that improves the economic quality of life for individuals, families and communities through programs that sustain and create stakeholders. By converting the unbanked into banking customers, renters into home owners and dreamers into viable business owners, increasing net worth, and assisting those facing foreclosure, the HBCN works towards its overall mission of eradicating poverty. Operation HOPE has 10 HOPE Center locations in Los Angeles and Oakland California, Washington D.C., New York, Miami, and is inclusive of a virtual HOPE Center in Poway, California.
