Strategic Community Partners is an answer to our ancestors' prayers.
Since 2015, Strategic Community Partners has been unapologetic in our pursuit to ensure marginalized communities have influence, power, resources, and opportunities.
Our Story
Our Founder and CEO Dr. Chanel Hampton’s grandparents, Lola Mae and Joe Harris migrated to Detroit, MI in 1945 seeking and praying for opportunity, access, and equity. Despite hardship and oppression, they persevered with zeal and determination to build opportunities not only for themselves, but also for their community. Their influence and prayers planted a seed that generations later helped birth Strategic Community Partners and are a core part of who we are. We know that the power, passion, and vision of just one prayer can influence the future.
Let’s create the future of equity together.
Our Team
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MISSION
Strategic Community Partners envisions a world where marginalized communities will secure seats at the table, lead the charges, and bring the solutions that their communities deserve, desire, and need. We are unapologetically committed to building the capacity of these communities—placing power, influence, and resources directly in their hands.
SCP is a national firm that works with organizations by advising, designing, and managing projects and initiatives that advance equity with and for communities. We partner with organizations to build capacity by pairing strategy with community and cultural context to drive forward powerful and equitable missions.
“I am fueled time and time again when I think about what is still ahead with our communities and the people we deeply care for. This is just the beginning.”
Our Values
PASSION
We are passionate about our work and the communities we serve.
EXCELLENCE
We pride ourselves on excellence and we are constantly learning.
INTEGRITY
Our decisions are guided by our ethics and firmly rooted in integrity.
EQUITY
We are unapologetically committed to advancing equity with and for communities.
Meet Our Founder & CEO, Dr. Chanel Hampton
As the daughter of a single mother who sacrificed everything for her children, I witnessed at an early age the power of one person having a passion and vision—and fiercely pursuing it. Even after becoming an emancipated minor at sixteen years old, I was surrounded by examples of servant leaders whose zeal and determination built opportunity, not only for themselves, but also for their families and their communities. People like my grandmother and grandfather, Lola Mae and Joe Harris, showed me that I had to live by action—not simply through idle words or passivity.
Seeing these examples of Black excellence and resilience allowed me to comprehend the unique challenges facing marginalized communities and envision the endless possibilities that equitable change can create. It is this deeply personal understanding that fuels the vision and work we do, and how Strategic Community Partners functions with and for the communities we serve.
Growing from a deep desire to cultivate hope, advance equity, and create a generational shift that I truly believe is possible. We may not see the full impact in our lifetime, yet I know we can create change now in the lives of children, families, and community members. It is our duty to create the long-lasting equitable change that our children’s children will experience, embrace, and believe in. To do this, we must be unapologetically committed to creating and advancing equity with and for communities.
We stand on the shoulders of greatness, and we act toward a future beyond our ancestors’ wildest dreams.
I know we can do this. I know it is possible.
Dr. Chanel Hampton
To learn more about how Strategic Community Partners can help organizations create meaningful and lasting change within the communities you serve, contact us.
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