COVID-19 Info Sharing App
Description: The COVID-19 virus has presented Rochester entrepreneurs, businesses, and nonprofits with novel challenges. However, together, we can make a difference. A grassroots initiative, led by individuals at Collider, BrandHoot, and Rochester Rising, is underway to build a free, public mobile application to support Rochester businesses.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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OpenBeam
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Pandemic
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Technology Enablement
Led by : Rochester Rising, Collider, Brandhoot
Community Dashboard
Description: Many best-practiced communities have implemented community web-based dashboards to provide a "read-out" of the health and wellness metrics of the community.
DMCC's website is a push technology and not so much as social, collaborative virtual teaming site.
Olmsted County, Mayo, OMG (and others) have just completed a community health study and published a report.
We should go further and have a plan to be more agile and responsive in changing statistics by implementing a dashboard.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Business Process
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Children & Youth
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Education
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OpenBeam
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Technology Enablement
Led by : openBEAM.net
Housing Alliance Coalition
Description: A continuing project to realize this purpose: “We are a cross-sector Alliance of organizations and individuals who seek to preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing that meets community needs and priorities in the Rochester area, through shared information, coordination, and collaboration.”
Impacting :
Aging
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Business Process
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Housing
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Neighborhood
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OpenBeam
Led by : Coalition for Rochester Area Housing
Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI)
Description: The Intercultural City Initiative is a bold effort on the part of a wide variety of organizations and
individuals to align the collective power, creativity, expertise, and energy of our cities toward a future of
inclusive growth.
Inspired by the comprehensive and coordinated approach of the Council of Europe Intercultural City
program, Minnesota’s Intercultural City Initiative is focused on using high leverage influence strategies to
realize this future faster.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Business Process
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Caring Relationship
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Commitment
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Governance/Public Policy
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International
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Intelligence
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Mediation
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OpenBeam
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Technology Enablement
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Vision/Identity
Led by : City of Rochester, MN
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Description: Preserve and honor the cultural heritage of Minnesota, provide education and student outreach on cultural diversity, empower communities to build their identify and culture
Impacting :
Arts & Culture
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Diversity and Inclusion
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OpenBeam
Led by : Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC)
Minnesota Compass
Description: Minnesota Compass is a social indicators project that measures progress in our state and its communities. Led by Wilder Research, Minnesota Compass provides nonpartisan, credible information and tracks trends in topic areas such as education, economy, workforce, health, housing, and a host of others.
Data and analysis on www.mncompass.org gives everyone in our state – policymakers, business and community leaders, and concerned individuals who live and work here – a common foundation to identify, understand, and act on issues that affect our communities.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Business Process
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Consultancy
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Economic Development
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Education
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Metrics
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OpenBeam
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Public Safety
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Reading
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Special Needs
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Sustainability
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Technology Enablement
Led by : Wilder Research
Ready to Lead
Description: Our goal is to equip people with the knowledge and skills to feel confident in volunteering to serve our community and the many nonprofits and government committees seeking diverse voices and representation.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Education
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Leadership
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OpenBeam
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Workforce Development
Led by : Family Service Rochester
Rochester Public Library's Community Networks Website
Description: Rochester Public Library's website with links to various Olmsted County resources. There is a notion of integrating the various data sources into a single portal.
Impacting :
Networking
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OpenBeam
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Technology Enablement
Led by : Rochester Public Library
SE Mn Transportation Projects Information Portal
Description: Efficient, cost-effective transportation in SE Minnesota is crucial to its growth. We are building out this portal to demonstrate how technology can beam up (Build Enable Activate Model) transparency, accountability, responsiveness and project/process-centric execution of individual transportation plans, and to point out the need to have a systematic approach involving multiple public, private partnerships (PPP) to harmonize the various efforts.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Business Process
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OpenBeam
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Technology Enablement
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Transportation
Led by : openBEAM.net
The Village Community Garden & Learning Center (VCGLC)
Description: The Village - Where We Grow Together!
The Village Community Garden & Learning Center is a new community garden opening this 2019 growing season. The focus of this garden is to grow together as a community that comes from many parts of our world, and to learn about each other's traditions in food, arts, and culture. Thank you to Rochester Home Infusion for donating 11 acres for this project, and to our many partners at Diversity Council, Olmsted County, U of M Extension, Rochester Farmers Market, UMR, and RCTC.
We are excited to share this new community asset with the city of Rochester and surrounding communities. This season will focus on the establishment of the garden through development of water resources, fencing, funding for event resources, and building our community of gardeners. We look forward to growing together!
Impacting :
Arts & Culture
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Education
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Food
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Health
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Immigration
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OpenBeam
Led by : Diversity Council
