About Chauncy

Chauncy Horton is a builder. As a founder and business visionary, Chauncy is committed to creating equity and opportunity for the Black community.

His sense of duty to those around him started when he was young. Chauncy has always been a stabilizing force for himself and his family. He steps up to be the one to get things done. This drive and caretaking instincts led him to SNA Contracting and groundbreaking initiatives like 318 Collective, a 501c3 non-profit new-spiritual community for artist and entrepreneurs, as well as Bridge Builders, an organization designed to solve the labor crisis in America by pairing men with mentorship and federal contracting work. The intent for Bridge Builders is twofold: to build upon the legacy of Chauncy’s father and grandfather, both contractors themselves, as well as to fortify communal bonds through a business model that, at its core,follows the tenet that a rising tide lifts all boats.

To break the cycle of recidivism that many Black men experience, Chauncy and Bridge Builders are doing more than offering kind words of encouragement—though they do that extensively. They’re providing a tactical and practical way of building a gainful and meaningful career that rewrites the narrative put on so many men who’ve gone through the prison system. And by also leveraging SNA’s robust masterclasses that help business owners navigate the federal market, Chauncy is building a social infrastructure that works by building capital infrastructure.

It works because Chauncy gets it. He’s been there, too. Before getting into contracting himself, he was nearly bankrupt and on the verge of losing everything. But shortly after shifting his focus to federal contracting, he landed a $1.6 million contract that changed everything. SNA Contracting has seen year-over-year growth since 2017—even through the COVID pandemic’s worst days—which inspired Chauncy to found Bridge Builders as a way to give back.

Chauncy is a part of this community—of his community. The top-down, savior non-profit model doesn’t work here. For Chauncy and Bridge Builders, one man’s success is all of their success—something Chauncy’s learned from contracting—so Bridge Builders provides not only job placements, but also mentorship, guidance, community, and most of all, compassion for those who often don’t receive it.

As someone who built walls around himself in the name of stability and survival, Chauncy knows the strengths and limitations of doing so. It can save your life, as it did his when he was young; but it can also box you in. That’s why Chauncy is tearing down the walls that no longer serve his community, and in their place, building new ones on foundations of rightness and goodness that can inspire wealth and prosperity for generations to come. Chauncy is furthering his family’s legacy on multiple fronts. Striking out on his own with SNA Contracting and establishing Bridge Builders to spur a stronger labor workforce and make sustainable careers accessible. He’s offering guidance and assistance to men on their journeys of self-healing, and ultimately building a better, stronger, more robust community—rebuilding the faith framework with 318’s credo of kingdom and culture, and real, generational wealth through Bridge Builders.

Chauncy Horton has had many successes in his life, but he doesn’t rest on his laurels. Through his continued success, he is focused on breaking down old modes of being and rebuilding new ones—for the self, the soul, and the broader community. He recently found that his lineage can be traced back to Burkina Faso—land of the upright people. Chauncy continues that legacy today by looking ahead, eyes to the sky, and walking forward, upright and assured in the knowledge that all it takes to build the brighter future you envision is to use the tools already in your hands.