For institutions, partners, and funders
Local businesses matter to you. Your team can’t do it all.
Communities invest in attracting and growing businesses. They also need a plan for keeping established businesses when their owners step away. BEAM helps owners plan for someone else to carry the business forward and helps prospective buyers prepare for ownership.
Questions organizations ask
Can BEAM help us research local suppliers?
Yes. Anchor Insights helps procurement teams find businesses and review sourced information. Your team decides who qualifies and who to buy from.
Can we refer an owner or buyer to BEAM?
Yes. You can introduce BEAM as a resource or share our owner and buyer education while keeping your relationship with the people you serve.
How can our organization support this work?
Talk with BEAM about a partnership, a useful event, or support for outreach and free monthly workshops.
What is your team trying to do?
Start with your job.
Procurement teams
We want more local suppliers. We don’t have time to research them all.
Anchor Insights helps your team find businesses and review sourced information. Your procurement team keeps the decision.
Explore Anchor InsightsChambers, SBDCs & community partners
Owners need help. We can’t offer every kind of support.
Give the people you serve access to ownership preparation, education, and professional connections while keeping your relationship.
Explore a partnershipFunders, sponsors & supporters
We want local businesses to have a future here.
Support outreach, free monthly workshops, and personalized preparation for owners and buyers.
Support the missionFor organizations already helping businesses
Another way to help. Your relationship stays yours.
When someone asks about stepping away or buying a business, you do not need to have every answer.
You can introduce BEAM as a resource, share education with your network, or work with us on a useful event.
Start with the people you already serve.
An owner whose employees still call on every day off. Someone with a manager or family member in mind, but no plan for that person to follow. A buyer who is unsure what they can afford. Someone who needs to know where to begin.
“You mentioned that everyone still calls you when you’re away. BEAM helps owners begin preparing someone to step in, with a plan they can follow. This might be worth a look.”
The local connection
The businesses you depend on have people depending on them.
Their employees, customers, suppliers, and families all have a stake in what happens next. Supporting thoughtful ownership preparation is a practical way to act before an urgent change limits the choices.
Your next step
What would help the people your organization serves?
Tell us about your goals. We can discuss supplier research, partnership, or mission support.