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Report an IssueThe Student Basic Needs Coalition (SBNC) is a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring college students have the financial resources they need to get from enrollment to graduation. We work at the intersection of technology, student leadership, and policy to connect students to public benefits like SNAP and Medicaid and to reduce the administrative burden that keeps millions of eligible students from accessing support.
Since 2020, SBNC has partnered with over 100 campuses and helped tens of thousands of students access hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits. Our work is grounded in lived experience, driven by data, and focused on building scalable infrastructure for student success.
Navvy is SBNC’s AI-supported benefits access platform. It screens students for eligibility using a short questionnaire or FAFSA data, generates a personalized roadmap, supports document upload and verification, guides students through application workflows, and uses SMS and chatbot nudges to drive completion.
Navvy is already live and used by 50,000+ students representing over 500 campuses — but we are still early in our technical maturity. Much of the system has been built with external contractors. Our next phase is about bringing core infrastructure in-house, improving reliability and architecture, dramatically reducing per-student costs, and building toward a platform that can continue to scale nationally across states and institutions.
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