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HOPE credit union
Proposal byMissing The Pieces Studios
A Strategic Creative Partnership
Build the brand. Build the tools. Build HOPE.
HOPE already has the mission, financial products, community relationships and impact. Missing The Pieces Studios proposes an outside creative engine that turns those existing strengths into a recognizable brand platform, a sellable educational product and a repeatable live experience designed to drive deposits, lending opportunities, sponsorship support, new accounts and long-term relationships.
Part One
Find HOPE Campaign
A master brand platform connecting HOPE to homes, businesses, financial futures, sports and communities.
Part TwoThe HOPE Playbook
A sellable educational product HOPE can deploy through schools, churches, campuses, youth programs and community organizations.
Part ThreeThe HOPE Playbook Live
A repeatable activation platform built to entertain, educate, attract sponsors and generate measurable customer opportunities.
01 · Brand Growth Platform
Find HOPE Campaign
Turn the name HOPE into a promise people can find at the exact moment they need it.
FIND HOPE is a master campaign that connects HOPE's financial products to the real goals people are already pursuing. Instead of beginning with a loan, account or banking term, the story begins with the person: the family looking for a home, the worker who needs reliable transportation, the entrepreneur ready to grow, the student preparing for a future, or the community trying to build something stronger. HOPE becomes the financial partner people learn to look for when they are ready to make the next move.
People are the heroes. FIND HOPE does not position HOPE as coming in to rescue people. It shows people already doing the work—and makes the tools, financing, knowledge and access HOPE can provide easier to see, understand and act on.
How FIND HOPE Works
Start with the life goal. Connect it to the financial path.
Every extension of FIND HOPE can live as a commercial, social series, outdoor campaign, branch message, church presentation, campus activation, event story or real-member profile. The campaign gives HOPE one recognizable brand idea that can stretch across lending, deposits, education, sports and community development without becoming a collection of unrelated ads.
1. Show the person first.
Lead with the home they want, the car they need, the business they are building or the future they are preparing for—not with a product sheet.
2. Show the path.
Connect that goal to a HOPE resource, account, loan, education pathway or conversation that can help them make the next move.
3. Give them somewhere to go.
Every story ends with a direct action: find a HOPE Credit Union near you, learn more, open an account, or begin a lending conversation.
Campaign Extension · Tap Any Card
Find HOPE at Home
A homeownership and mortgage story built around the moment someone decides they are ready for keys of their own. Show real families, first-time buyers and people preparing financially for ownership. HOPE becomes the place they can turn for education, mortgage conversations and a path toward the next address.
One Campaign · Multiple Doors Into HOPE
Find HOPE at Home
Mortgage + Homeownership
The dream is the keys. HOPE connects the person to the financial path toward ownership.
Find HOPE on the Road
Auto Lending + Transportation
The story is not simply a car loan. It is reliable transportation to work, school, family, practice and opportunity.
Find HOPE in Business
Business Banking + Lending
Show founders and businesses using capital and financial relationships to launch, expand and create opportunity.
Find HOPE in Your Future
Deposits + Savings + Credit
Connect everyday money decisions to preparation, security and longer-term financial goals.
Find HOPE Off the Field
Sports + Young Adult Relationships
Use sports culture to begin broader conversations about money, careers, NIL, ownership and life beyond the game.
Find HOPE in Your Community
Community + Institutional Relationships
Make HOPE's impact visible through the institutions, businesses and projects that help communities move forward.
Deposit Growth Story
Your deposits help your community get loans. Put HOPE to work.
Deposits do not have to feel like a technical banking story. Missing The Pieces Studios can make the system emotional and understandable by showing what capital can help make possible: a home, a business, transportation or investment in a community.
Campaign role: FIND HOPE gives HOPE a human story for the places people need financial help—homeownership, auto financing, business growth, savings, credit, sports and community opportunity. PUT HOPE TO WORK tells the other side of the system: why bringing deposits into HOPE can help create more lending capacity and more opportunity.
THE STORY IN ONE LINE
💵Your Deposit
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HHOPE
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🤝Loans + Resources
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🌇Opportunity
Deposit → HOPE → Loans → Homes, businesses, mobility and stronger communities.
02 · Sellable Education + Community Product
The HOPE Playbook
Turn financial empowerment into a product HOPE can teach, deploy and sell.
The HOPE Playbook extends HOPE beyond a single event or classroom visit. It gives HOPE a structured curriculum that can live inside schools, colleges, churches, after-school programs, sports programs and community organizations while creating a potential earned-revenue stream.
Athlete + Alumni Edition
Prepare for the next season of life.
A focused framework for athletes and alumni covering financial awareness, relationships, personal brand, NIL and commercial opportunity, purpose, career, business and long-term planning.
Built to Travel
Bring the Playbook to people where they already are.
HOPE employees or trained facilitators can lead the weekly lessons during school, after school, through a church, or through a community partner. HBCUs remain an important existing channel, but the program is intentionally designed for broader reach.
High Schools
Community Colleges
Universities + HBCUs
Churches
After-School Programs
Youth Organizations
Sports Programs
Community Nonprofits
01Organization Purchases
School, church, nonprofit, youth or sports organization funds the cohort.
02Students Receive Playbooks
Every participant has a tangible workbook and weekly structure.
03HOPE Facilitates
HOPE employees or trained facilitators lead weekly lessons during or after school and through community partners.
04Relationships Continue
The program creates ongoing touchpoints with students, families, schools and organizations.
03 · Live Activation + Sponsorship Engine
The HOPE Playbook Live
Turn the Playbook into something people can play.
The HOPE Playbook Live is designed to become HOPE's repeatable activation system for tournaments, games, Classics, tailgates, homecomings, campus events, church gatherings, community festivals and other high-traffic moments. HBCUs remain an important existing channel—but the experience is built for everybody who walks through it.
Money Moves
Make fast choices around income, bills, emergencies, goals, saving and tradeoffs.
Credit Comeback
Watch a simulated score move as everyday decisions create or reduce financial options.
The NIL Draft
Step into an athlete's shoes, draw a brand and make the partnership pitch under pressure.
Put HOPE to Work
Experience how deposits can help HOPE support lending and opportunity in communities.
What's Your Next Play?
Choose a real goal while HOPE identifies potential deposit, lending and service opportunities.
The Next Play Wall
Finish the sentence “My next play is…” and turn the crowd's goals into a visible community story.
Interactive Demo · NIL Draft
You've been drafted by a brand. Sell the partnership.
A fan, parent or student gets 30 seconds to think like an athlete and show a business why the partnership should happen.
Your Brand
Automotive
Pitch a dealership on why you could help create attention, content and community connection.
Curveball: The brand wants more deliverables than you expected. What do you do?
New Market Growth · Atlanta
Turn HOPE's new Atlanta presence into a market people can see, experience and join.
HOPE can use The HOPE Playbook Live as more than an event activation in Atlanta. It can become a market-entry and customer-acquisition tool—meeting people where they already gather, introducing HOPE through useful experiences, and converting that engagement into new accounts, deposits, lending conversations and long-term relationships.
Priority 2027 Opportunity
Morehouse–Spelman Homecoming · “SpelHouse”
As 2027 calendars and partnership opportunities are announced, the Morehouse–Spelman Homecoming ecosystem should be a priority target. It brings together students, young adults, alumni, families, entrepreneurs, professionals and visitors in one of Atlanta's signature cultural moments. HOPE can use The HOPE Playbook Live, The NIL Draft, What's Your Next Play?, Put HOPE to Work and Atlanta-based supporting sponsors to create a highly visible introduction to the market.
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Atlanta University Center
Campus, alumni and community opportunities across Morehouse, Spelman and Clark Atlanta—while continuing to reach students beyond HBCUs as the platform grows.
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Games, Rivalries + Classics
Use major football and basketball moments, rivalry weekends, tailgates and Classic-style events as high-energy customer-acquisition environments.
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Entrepreneurship + Wealth Events
Evaluate Atlanta business, investing and entrepreneurship gatherings where HOPE can meet depositors, founders, employers and potential borrowers.
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Church + Community Networks
Bring Playbook programming and live activations into trusted institutions that already convene families, business owners, youth and community leaders.
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Healthcare + Anchor Institutions
Build from HOPE's Atlanta institutional relationships and create financial-empowerment experiences for employees, families and surrounding communities.
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Festivals + Citywide Events
Take a modular version of The HOPE Playbook Live to community festivals, college fairs, youth events, business expos and other high-traffic Atlanta moments.
The objective is not simply to sponsor Atlanta events. The objective is to use Atlanta's existing culture, institutions and gathering places to accelerate familiarity, trust, membership, deposits and lending relationships in a new HOPE market.
2027 HBCUAC HOPE Credit Union Basketball Championship
Dallas can be the flagship demonstration of the full model across a four-day tournament: games, sponsor judges, content, prizes, Playbook completion, customer intent and measurable conversion. The HBCU relationship remains a major existing channel while demonstrating a platform HOPE can carry far beyond HBCUs.
8,000illustrative activation visitors
2,400complete the Playbook experience
620express interest in savings
310identify homeownership
145identify small-business needs
$Xdeposits + sponsor support attributed
Illustrative planning scenario only; not a performance guarantee.
Games, Classics, Tailgates + Community Events
The same system can scale for a high-traffic Classic, rivalry game, tournament, campus event, church gathering or community festival. HOPE can carry the full experience or select the strongest plays for the audience and footprint.
2,500illustrative visitors
750complete the experience
195savings interest
100homeownership interest
45small-business needs
$Xdeposits / sponsor value
Illustrative planning scenario only; actual results depend on event attendance, footprint, staffing, promotion and conversion.
HOPE becomes known for the experience. Supporting partners help pay for the experience.
Read Activation Strategy ↗
Play partners, category partners, Guest Judges, challenge sponsors, content sponsors, prize partners and community underwriters can help shoulder production costs while receiving meaningful participation and content value.
Missing The Pieces Studios × HOPE
An outside creative engine built to create more than advertising.
The proposed relationship gives HOPE three connected growth platforms: a brand campaign that makes impact visible, a sellable educational product that can create earned revenue, and a live activation system designed to attract sponsors and produce measurable customer opportunities.
This page is an independent proposal developed by Missing The Pieces Studios for HOPE Credit Union. It is not an announcement of an existing HOPE program or partnership. All activation concepts, pricing examples, sponsorship structures, revenue models, licensing terms, financial-product statements, compliance language and performance targets are subject to HOPE's review and final written agreement. Original proposal concepts and creative IP are presented by Missing The Pieces Studios; ownership and licensing rights would be governed by the parties' final agreement.