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Beam Up DEI Actions for Area CBO's

Many area Community Based Organizations(CBO) to their credit are embarking on DEI projects and seek friendly guidance how to get going. OpenBeam to help identify actions that area organizations may pursue to make impacts on area's DEI needs. OpenBeam to provide assistance in two ways : (1) OpenBeam's founder, Al Lun, will serve as Diversity Council ambassador to be a conduit of information sharing between the CBO's and Diversity Council. If requested, a DC staff person may also join in the effort. (2) OpenBeam's dmcbeam.org community assets database is made available to enable community resources connectivity in general.

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Project Impact(s): Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, OpenBeam, Technology Enablement

This project is in Concept Phase

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: OpenBeam.net

Contact: Al Lun ; Email: kalun@openbeam.net ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Diversity Council ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Foundation ; Rochester Area Nonprofit Consortium

Potential Collaborators: Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; County of Olmsted, MN ; History Center of Olmsted County ; Olmsted County Community Services ; Olmsted County HRA ; Olmsted County Human Rights Commission ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Area Foundation ; Rochester Area Nonprofit Consortium ; United Way of Olmsted County


Related Projects

Allies & Advocates ; America's City for Health ; Building Out Community Mobilization Resources Coalition ; Bystander to Upstander ; Collider Inclusion Open Entrepreneur Ecosystem Navigator ; Digital Equity IT ; Discovery Walk Co-designing ; Diversity Council Civic Equity Focus Area ; Intercultural Center, Rochester (Creating a 21st Century Community Space) ; Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) ; OpenBeam Activating Technologies Project ; Page Amendment ; Pathways to Equity ; Police Assisted Recovery (PAR Program) ; RPD Accountability Dashboard ; Racial Equity Resource Directory ; Rochester A City of Compassion (RocCoC) ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index


Impacts 

Major Impact:  Best Practice

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, OpenBeam, Technology Enablement

Level 2: Diversity Training, Education, Education

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:


Type of Project

Tooling, Special  

 

 

Detailed Description

Many area Community Based Organizations(CBO) to their credit are embarking on DEI projects and seek friendly guidance how to get going. OpenBeam to help identify actions that area organizations may pursue to make impacts on area's DEI needs. 

OpenBeam to provide assistance in three ways :

(1) OpenBeam's founder, Al Lun, will serve as Diversity Council ambassador to be a conduit of information sharing between the CBO's and Diversity Council. If requested, a DC staff person may also join in the effort.

(2) OpenBeam's dmcbeam.org community assets database is made available to enable community resources connectivity in general.

(3) Updating OpenBeam's DEI notebook to reinforce Listen, Learn, Act framework. 

 

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Pinned Reports on: Beam Up DEI Actions for Area CBO's




How to approach a DEI improvement project (July 07, 2021)

 Use the Listen, Learn and Act model to support new DEI leaders in our community -- a living document to jot down OpenBeam's thoughts how organizations may contribute to our area's DEI progress.  

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Reports on: Beam Up DEI Actions for Area CBO's




How to approach a DEI improvement project (July 07, 2021)

 Use the Listen, Learn and Act model to support new DEI leaders in our community -- a living document to jot down OpenBeam's thoughts how organizations may contribute to our area's DEI progress.  

Read more ...



Other Community News and Reports having impacts on:

Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, OpenBeam, Technology Enablement
August 12, 2024: Community Healthcare Simulation Center Co-Design Report
Jun 2021 Co-design Report

2024-08-12 PB Reporting GRAUC leads project to build prototype sim center The Southeast Minnesota Community Healthcare Simulation Center is set to open in downtown

Rochester by mid-October

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August 08, 2024: Anti-Hate Rally and Forum

Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Fight Against Hate

"Abolishing racism, hate crimes, and white supremacy isn’t a problem for one group to face alone; it’s a shared burden that requires a strong and unified response."

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August 07, 2024: Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan

August 2024 Report : Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) activities implementing the Age

Friendly Olmsted County 2022-2025 Action Plan since our annual report in February 2024.

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August 02, 2024: Rochester Vision 2050
The visioning effort calls for soliciting broad community input to help propose desired strategic initiatives based on desired outcomes through 2050.

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July 27, 2024: C2C Summer 2024 Sparklers

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

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July 17, 2024: City Housing Support

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

 

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July 13, 2024: How does racism impact people’s health?
 New Mayo Clinic, U of M framework aims to guide future research. The framework defines structural racism as the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice.”

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July 01, 2024: First Half 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

2Q 2024: June 2024May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development 

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June 26, 2024: City of Rochester - Justice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (JEDI) Audit Status

June 24, 2024 City Council Study Session: Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit per Goodenough 

Departmental Audit reports of: Human Resources; Rochester Public Library; Parks & Rec 

 

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June 21, 2024: Somali American Social Service Association

SASSA to receive $1M from MN to train workers for high-demand employment. 

The funding is awarded under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Targeted Populations Workforce Competitive Grant Program.

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June 20, 2024: Community Building Fund
The City of Rochester welcomes applications for the Community Building Fund.  This fund is all about supporting projects, programs, and events in the city that actively promote equity and inclusion.

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June 15, 2024: Homes for our Neighbors Community Gathering
Calling for Community Support at Community Meeting:  The most recent Olmsted County Maxfield Study found that from 2020-2030, housing demand required 18,000 new housing units. 71% would need to be general-occupancy and 29% age-restricted senior housing.

 

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  • For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
  • For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
  • Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's  distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

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