The document summarizes HOPE Business in a Box, a program that provides students in underserved communities with the opportunity to design their own business ideas and unlock their entrepreneurial potential. The program aims to increase financial literacy and business engagement in local schools through an innovative approach of school-wide pitch competitions and business role models. It hopes to scale the program by expanding to more schools, providing start-up grants, and building partnerships with school districts to ultimately galvanize thousands of young entrepreneurs.

1. LinkedIn For Good Innovation Grant
Presentation
HOPE Business in a Box
“Maxing Out EVERY Kids’ Talent”
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HOPE Business In A Box (HBIAB)
represents an “intelligent risk” by offering
an innovative approach to developing
the entrepreneurial capabilities of young
people from underserved communities
in Oakland and across the nation.
Students can design their own unique
business ideas and unlock their
untapped potential to start their own
small business.

3. IMPACT AND INNOVATION
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Impact
Need
Matching Aspiration with Opportunity
Vision
Increase Financial Literacy
Increase Business Engagement in Local Schools
Innovation
Intelligent Risk
Alternative Education
Program Infrastructure
School-Wide Pitch Competitions
Business Role Models

4. SCALABILITY
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Funding Use
School Expansion
Start up Grants
Growth Plans
Build partnerships w/ School Districts.
Fellow Staffing
America 2020 Initiative
Measuring Success
HBIAB
Full Completion of Program
Post-Program Check-In
America 2020
Increase Business Role Models by 15%
Galvanizing 25,000 Young Entrepreneurs Into Launch

5. Hear it from the youth themselves!
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Take Action and serve as a Business
Role Model today!
For more information on how to be apart of HOPE
Business in a Box, please contact:
​Gregory D. Collins
Program Manager
Banking on Our Future
Operation HOPE, Inc.
3062 E 9th Street
Oakland, CA 94601
Office: (510) 434-5290
Cell: (510) 206-3023
Fax: (510) 535-6704
gregory.collins@operationhope.org
www.operationhope.org
www.bankingonourfuture.org