James Bailey serves as Market Vice President for the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of Operation HOPE, and National Director for the Banking on Our Future: College Financial Empowerment Program.
Operation HOPE, is a global non-profit, public benefit organization; America’s leading provider of economic tools, services, and financial literacy for the underserved. Operational in 70 U.S. cities, 7 provinces in South Africa, and has most recently launched program offices in Haiti to help restore hope and financial stability to its citizens. Since its founding in 1992, HOPE has served over 1.2 Million youth and families and raised over 1 Billion dollars to serve the poor and underserved. In Atlanta alone since 2005 with our over 1,400 active volunteers, we have educated and empowered over 30,000 students in low to moderate income communities, delivering courses in Dignity and teaching the language of money through our Banking on Our Future program for grades 4-12.
As Market Vice President, James is responsible for development, growth and expansion for HOPE offices in Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. He manages HOPE’s national partnership with the Church of God and Christ (COGIC), and oversees Banking on Our Future, College Edition. College Edition is an extension of HOPE’s outstanding work with students 4th through 12th grade and was developed to empower college students to become stakeholders on their campuses and in the community, while equipping them with tools to be fiscally fit and financially literate. Through a partnership with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the program will be offered at all 105 of its member institutions, as well as colleges and universities across the country.
A native of Atlanta, graduate of the University of Georgia, 2011 New Leaders Council of Atlanta Fellow, and member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, James serves on a number of boards and is heavily involved with several civic organizations, however devotes much of his time outside of the office volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club, Atlanta Public School’s R.E.A.L. Men Read program, Priority Male Initiative Mentorship Program, Georgia Pacific’s Young Entrepreneurs Atlanta, and Boy Scouts of America, most notably serving as Scoutmaster of Troop 100, one of the largest inner city troops in the country, sponsored by the 100 Black Men of Atlanta. Read more ...
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