Beaming Up Community Mobilization Resources Coaltion
Description: Purpose:
Change power dynamics to create a pluralistic and intercultural community where all people benefit equitably.
Goal:
Create equitable access to community resources and civic involvement.
Impacting :
Aging
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Arts & Culture
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Best Practice
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Business Process
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Leadership
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OpenBeam
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Technology Enablement
Led by : Diversity Council
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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Diversity and Inclusion
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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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Diversity and Inclusion
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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
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
Project HEALINGS of MN
Description: HEALINGS provides an opportunity to close vaccination gaps and solve persistent health inequities by galvanizing disparate regional efforts and forging unbreakable connections between BIPOC Minnesotans and the state, local, private, and nonprofit entities that serve them. More than 250,000 touches that will establish a formidable network of human relationships to fulfill current COVID priorities and lay a foundation for equitable management of major health events arising in the future. The initiative will focus on Minnesota’s major population centers and the tribal communities of the Anishinaabe and Dakota.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Health
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OpenBeam
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Pandemic
Led by : Diversity Council
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
Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan
Description: To further increase participation rates of targeted businesses and workforce on DMC projects, four
priorities have been identified that are outlined below.
(1) Build capacity of Targeted Businesses located in Southeastern Minnesota
(2) Assess gaps with existing subcontractors to determine market opportunity.
(3) Recruit women and minorities from workforce to start their own companies.
(4) Host workshops to educate entrepreneurs, provide consulting services for WMBVE
certification process and assist with bid process to win contracts on DMC projects.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Economic Development
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Entrepreneurship
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OpenBeam
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Workforce Development
Led by : City of Rochester, MN
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
