HOPE GLOBAL FORUM 2025: FUTURE PROOFING

From $6K to $1M: Our Journey with Operation HOPE 🎯 began with serving coffee and now we are building a legacy. 💼☕

Last week standing in the 2025 HOPE Global Forum representing The Black Coffee Company we experienced a full-circle moment when you remember where we started. Our team isn’t just pouring beverages. We’re building relationships with business owners, bankers, media personalities, and corporate executives from around the world who now know our name and believe in our mission.

This moment exists because Operation HOPE believed in our vision first. That investment didn’t just change our balance sheet. It powered us past $1 million in revenue, a milestone that separates dreamers from builders. We’re proof that when community invests in community, generational wealth isn’t just possible. It’s inevitable.

Thank you Chairman John Hope Bryant, Lance Triggs, Brian Betts, and the entire Operation HOPE family for seeing what we were building before the world did. Special salute to Nicky Sparrow, the real MVP creating opportunities that change lives.

To The Black Coffee Company team: this is for every single person who showed up today. From our crew working hard here at the conference to our team at Lakewood headquarters, our baristas serving Morehouse College students, our squad holding it down at Grady Memorial Hospital, and our behind-the-scenes champions handling scheduling and HR. You pushed through every obstacle and gave everything to hit these goals. This is OUR story.

Future proofing. That’s what we’re doing. Building something so solid that generations after us can climb even higher.

Small business owners supporting small business isn’t just a movement. It’s how empires are built. Let’s keep climbing. 🏆