BECAUSE WE ARE
UNAPOLOGETICALLY COMMITTED.

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 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.

Strategic Community Partners (SCP) envisions a world where marginalized communities will secure seats at the table, lead the charges, and bring the solutions that they deserve, desire, and need. We are unapologetically committed to building the capacity of marginalized communities—placing power, influence, and resources directly in the hands of those marginalized and oppressed.

SCP is a Detroit-headquartered 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. We also develop and lead homegrown equity initiatives based on the needs and desires of our community–focused on engaging, retaining, developing, and empowering strategic community leaders and organizations.  We pride ourselves on excellence and we are constantly learning. Our decisions are guided by our community and ethics, and are firmly rooted in integrity. We are passionate about our work and the communities we are a part of and serve, focusing our passion and work primarily in the following areas:

• Multi-generational programming and experiences that provide engagement and exposure experiences, college and career access and success and life and dream supports

• Fellowships and cohort experiences, conferences, and scholarships that engage, retain, develop, and empower strategic community leaders

• Community-driven spaces that drive toward information, access, resources, and empowerment

• Strategic equity planning and engagement endeavors that place those we seek to lift up, engage, and serve in positions to determine the path forward--ultimately creating and furthering equity in meaningful ways determined by community

• Project management and systems building that allow organizations to operate excellently and more effectively move forward equitable missions

• Community and generational wealth building that creates and furthers community-controlled and community-governed dollars and community-owned properties, land, and real estate assets

Our Values

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

Our Team