BEACON, The Business Economic and Community Outreach Network, of the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University, offers business, economic, workforce, and community development consulting and assistance services to a variety of organizations, including businesses, government agencies, and non-profit community-based organizations. BEACON has a dual mission of:

Providing Perdue School students with a wide variety of experiential learning opportunities;

Providing our region's public and private sector decision makers with the business and economic development data, information, skills and know-how they need through targeted outreach programs, applied research, trend and scenario analyses, demand forecasting, strategic planning, feasibility studies, and modeling for resource allocation, process improvement, and economic impact studies.

It seems to me their primary focus is economic.

They are also working on a project to better serve immigrants on Delmarva.

Bienvenidos a Delmarva is a network of over 70  service-providing organizations that meets monthly to exchange information, discuss common problems and issues and work on appropriate solutions in order to better serve immigrants in this region. Through a needs assessment Bienvenidos established five priority areas--language, education, health, transportation and legal aid.