ATLANTA, Aug. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Operation HOPE and
BancorpSouth Bank (NYSE: BXS) are continuing their partnership with
six additional HOPE Inside locations and the bank's investment of
nearly $1.5 million over the next two
years.
HOPE Inside serves adults, youth, disaster survivors, and
its partners' employees with financial dignity programming and
coaching to equip them with the financial knowledge and tools to
create a secure future. Headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, BancorpSouth has a
longstanding commitment to financial literacy and inclusion.
Because of its shared values with Operation HOPE and its support of
HOPE Inside, underserved communities will receive financial
education free of charge.
"Our partnership with BancorpSouth has grown because they are
equally as passionate about changing what financial literacy looks
like in this country," said John Hope
Bryant, Founder and CEO of Operation HOPE. "Together, we are
empowering the next generation of Americans, making them not just
financially literate, but also financially confident."
Operation HOPE welcomed BancorpSouth as a "HOPE Inside"
partner in 2017 when BancorpSouth launched its first "HOPE Inside"
location in Memphis. BancorpSouth
will carry HOPE Inside into six additional communities, three of
which focus on financial wellbeing, credit counseling and
HUD-certified homebuyer counseling. The other four locations also
offer programming for small business development and
entrepreneurship.
"BancorpSouth is committed to expanding financial literacy,
access and opportunities into previously underserved areas," said
BancorpSouth Chairman and CEO Dan
Rollins. "Financial education helps communities and
individuals prosper. We're excited to continue our partnership with
organizations like Operation HOPE."
BancorpSouth's seven HOPE Inside locations now include
Dallas; Gulfport, Mississippi; Houston; Jackson,
Mississippi; Jackson,
Alabama; Memphis,
Tennessee; and Pensacola,
Florida.
About BancorpSouth Bank
BancorpSouth Bank (NYSE: BXS)
is headquartered in Tupelo,
Mississippi, with approximately $28
billion in assets. BancorpSouth operates approximately
315 full-service branch locations as well as additional mortgage,
insurance, and loan production offices in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, including an insurance location in
Illinois. BancorpSouth is committed to a culture of respect,
diversity, and inclusion in both its workplace and communities. To
learn more, visit our Community Commitment page at
www.bancorpsouth.com; "Like" us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter
and Instagram: @MyBXS; or connect with us through LinkedIn.
About Operation HOPE, Inc.
Since 1992, Operation HOPE
has been moving America from civil rights to "silver rights" with
the mission of making free enterprise and capitalism work for the
underserved—disrupting poverty for millions of low and
moderate-income youth and adults across the nation. Through its
community uplift model, HOPE Inside, which received the 2016
Innovator of the Year recognition by American Banker magazine,
Operation HOPE has served more than 4 million individuals and
directed more than $3.2 billion in
economic activity into disenfranchised communities—turning
check-cashing customers into banking customers, renters into
homeowners, small business dreamers into small business owners,
minimum wage workers into living wage consumers, and uncertain
disaster victims into financially empowered disaster survivors. For
more information: www.OperationHOPE.org. Follow the HOPE
conversation on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Media Contacts
Antrenise Robinson, BancorpSouth
662-680-2038
antrenise.robinson@bxs.com
Lalohni Campbell, Operation HOPE
404-593-7145
la@persemediagroup.com
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