Let's Build Better Places Together.

Whether you are exploring professional education, seeking strategic guidance, addressing a community challenge, developing a new initiative, or looking for the right expertise to help move an idea forward, we would be glad to learn more about your goals.
Champion for Community Growth™ works with leaders, organizations, and communities to better understand complex challenges, explore possibilities, and identify practical paths forward.
You do not need to have everything figured out before you reach out.
Every meaningful transformation begins with a conversation. Let’s start one.

How Can We Help?

Choose the area that best reflects what brought you here. If you are not sure where to begin, simply start a conversation with us.

Community Growth Institute™

Professional education, certificate programs, workshops, and customized learning experiences for leaders and organizations.

Community Growth Solutions™

Research, strategic planning, facilitation, community engagement, communications, organizational capacity building, and implementation support.

Speaking & Presentations

Keynotes, conferences, panels, leadership gatherings, board retreats, and community conversations.

Research & Insights

Research briefs, publications, articles, community studies, and collaborative research initiatives.

Partnerships & Collaborations

Institutional partnerships, educational collaborations, research initiatives, community projects, and cross-sector convenings.

Faculty & Subject Matter Expert Network

Opportunities for experienced practitioners, researchers, scholars, civic leaders, and subject matter experts to contribute to Champion programs and initiatives.

Before You Reach Out...

You Don’t Need to Have All the Answers.

Maybe your organization is beginning a strategic planning process. Maybe you are trying to strengthen leadership, revitalize a neighborhood or downtown, improve public engagement, address housing or economic challenges, build organizational capacity, or simply understand why progress has stalled.
You may know exactly what you need.
Or you may only know that something needs to change.
Either way, that is enough to begin.
Champion starts by listening. We ask questions. We research. We help connect the dots. And when the work calls for expertise beyond our own, we believe in bringing knowledgeable practitioners and subject matter experts to the table.

You don’t have to arrive with the answer. Sometimes the first step is asking the right question.

Contact Information

However you choose to connect, we are glad to hear from you. Every inquiry is reviewed by a real person, and we will help direct your message to the appropriate place.

Altimese Dees, Founder and President of Champion for Community Growth.
Altimese Dees
Founder & President, Champion for Community Growth™

Start the Conversation

Tell us a little about what you are working on. You do not need to know exactly which service or program you need—we will help determine the best next step.

Your Leadership Matters.

Every community deserves leaders who believe tomorrow can be better than today.
Every organization deserves thoughtful partners.
And every resident deserves the opportunity to live in a place that is safe, welcoming, prosperous, and full of possibility.
If you are working to make that vision real, we would be glad to hear from you.
Because stronger communities are built when people are willing to listen, learn, collaborate, and lead with purpose.

Three construction and project leaders in high-visibility safety vests and hard hats overseeing a major indoor facility development site.