Changing societal norms requires thinking a little bit differently.

Beam, a cloud-based developer of benefits applications, will help distribute $760,000 in emergency aid for HBCU and tribal college students.

There are many reasons for the low graduation rates that do not have anything to do with academic performance. HBCUs are typically underfunded, and smaller endowments mean fewer available resources, lower faculty salaries and limiting funding for research and expansion.

Beam’s cloud based platform will distribute over $760,000 in emergency aid across 49 minority-serving institutions and generate comprehensive basic needs data

Administrative barriers are holding up social safety net funds like SNAP and WIC from reaching Americans in need as expiring benefits threaten to send them over a nationwide "hunger cliff."

Tech companies are working hard to make brain-computer interfaces a reality. They have the potential to upend our world including how we pay—but will BCIs really happen?

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