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The most visible aspect of the Franklin P. Perdue School's Business, Economic, and Community Outreach Network (BEACON) may be the BEACON House, the two-story brick building at the corner of College and Camden Avenues. But BEACON's impact on the Eastern Shore extends way beyond bricks and mortar!

From BIENVENIDOS A DELMARVA, a regional management and marketing assistance program by BEACON for over 70 organizations that provide a wide variety of services for immigrants on our peninsula; to SHORE TRANSIT an integrated regional public transportation system conceived and developed by BEACON; on to SHORE TRENDS, a regional Information Base BEACON is developing for tracking Business, Economic, Community, and Workforce Development trends and data; there are many examples of BEACON's beneficial impact throughout our region.

Over the years, BEACON's grant and sponsored research projects, have benefited countless local businesses, non-profits, and government agencies. The ten-year regional economic impact of BEACON was recently estimated to be around $50 million, creating or retaining over 1,000 jobs throughout the peninsula.

BEACON's applied research philosophy has been recognized regionally and nationally with five major awards over the past three years, including a Shore Leadership Award for Economic Development.

Higher education is being called upon with ever increasing urgency to put more of the research done and the knowledge created on its campuses to solve some of our contemporary societal problems. BEACON is a perfect example of this concept in action. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that BEACON is doing this while giving Perdue School faculty and students an excellent variety of experiential learning opportunities.

"We estimate that over 90% of our Student Research Associates are placed upon graduation in jobs related to the work they do at BEACON," says Dr. Memo Diriker, BEACON's director.

For more information about BEACON, please call 410-546-6001 or visit the BEACON web site at: http://beacon.salisbury.edu