Asian Pacific MN Complete Count 2020 Project (Completed)
Description: Previous Census efforts have identified “hard to count” communities, including Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals, immigrants and refugees, and children under the age of 4. Given what we know about our API communities statewide, our Council believes that a complete count committee dedicated specifically to our community is in the interest of the state of Minnesota.
Therefore, we invite you to join the API Complete Count Committee (CCC), to ensure that all API Minnesotans participate fully in the 2020 Census.
Impacting :
Diversity and Inclusion
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Governance/Public Policy
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OpenBeam
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Technology Enablement
Led by : Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans (CAPM)
Collider Inclusion Open Entrepreneur Ecosystem Navigator
Description: A three-phase solution to empower underserved entrepreneurs and to reduce the
isolation and stressors of entrepreneurship through the creation of an Ecosystem Navigator
Program. Navigators will serve as personal guides, meeting one-on-one with entrepreneurs to
better understand their personal and professional needs as well as work to connect each
entrepreneur with the appropriate events, services, and people they need to help individual
entrepreneurs overcome their unique barriers to success.
Impacting :
Diversity and Inclusion
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Economic Development
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Entrepreneurship
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OpenBeam
;
Workforce Development
Led by : Collider Foundation
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
Community Mobilization Resources Coalition
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
Global Technovation Challenge
Description: Technovation is a 3-month program where teams of young women work together to imagine, design, and develop mobile apps, then pitch their “startup” businesses to investors.
Impacting :
Children & Youth
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Computer Literacy
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Education
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Mentoring
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OpenBeam
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STEM
Led by : Rochester Area Math and Science Partnership
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
Human Libray of Southeaster Minnesota
Description: The Human Library, an initiative developed by the World Culture Center in Denmark, allows
people and organizations to check out human "books" for a unique learning experience. If you
want to know what it's like to be, say, a single mother, a homeless person, a refugee, or a gay
man, you check one out of the library and they share their personal story and answer your
questions.
Impacting :
Diversity and Inclusion
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OpenBeam
Led by : Diversity Council
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
;
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
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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Medical Services
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OpenBeam
;
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
;
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
;
OpenBeam
Led by : Diversity Council
