MOVE COMMUNITY FORWARD
Milwaukee’s community transportation NGO building, restoring, and maintaining vehicles through local hands.
Six Areas
Where the cohort grows business and infrastructure
Each area is a delivery lane for partner businesses and a portfolio lane for community members, students, faculty, and entrepreneurs.
Anchor Partner Model
Your Business Deserves a Dedicated Team
BEAM connects Milwaukee auto businesses with a cohort of trained community members and UWM/MATC students who work specifically on your behalf. Expand your sales reach, build a local sourcing network, get R&D support, and grow in the directions you choose with clear agreements, flexible options, and no equity required.
guided
Guided Expansion
BEAM recommends a direction based on market research and partner readiness.
self directed
Self-Directed Growth
You define the need and the cohort executes to your brief.
rnd
R&D Partnership
Faculty-supervised research focused on your product or service line.
How The Cohort Works
Five Steps From Agreement To Delivery
Step 1
Business signs an MOU with BEAM and defines growth goals, scope, and support areas.
Step 2
Cohort members are assigned from community participants and or enrolled students.
Step 3
Participants may take a co-requisite course at UWM or MATC to access tools and certifications.
Step 4
The cohort works on live deliverables: sourcing, logistics, research, customer expansion, builds, and repair.
Step 5
Participants earn credentials and references while the business earns measurable growth.
Institutional Partners
UWM and MATC are embedded in the delivery model
uwm
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Faculty research, co-requisite coursework, and student practitioners connected to live partner work.
matc
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Certification pathways, tool access, and applied transportation training aligned with cohort delivery.
Get Involved
Open Cinematic ViewerChoose the role that matches your next move
Cohort Pathway
Community Member
Join the cohort, earn credentials, and build a transportation career without needing a degree first.
Credit-Earning Role
UWM / MATC Student
Earn credit and practical experience through work that directly supports Milwaukee businesses.
Institutional Collaborator
Faculty / Professor
Bring applied research, teaching, and mentorship into live community transportation projects.
Business Builder
Entrepreneur
Bring an idea and use BEAM infrastructure, labor, and research support to move it toward market.