HOPE (Hope Enterprise Corporation, Hope Credit Union, and Hope Policy Institute) provides affordable financial services; leverages private, public, and philanthropic resources; and engages in policy analysis to fulfill its mission of strengthening communities, building assets, and improving lives in economically distressed parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Since 1994, HOPE has generated billions of dollars in financing, benefiting more than one million individuals living in one of the nation’s most impoverished regions.