Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: City of Rochester, MN

Contact: Jorrie Johnson ; Email: jjohnson@Rochestermn.gov ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Center for Business & Workforce Education (BWE) ; City of Rochester, MN ; Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; DMC EDA ; Rochester-area Chamber of Commerce ; Workforce Development Inc

Potential Collaborators: Alliance of Chicanos, Hispanics and Latin American--Rochester ; Center for Business & Workforce Education (BWE) ; Collider Foundation ; Council For US-China Medical Technology Exchanges ; Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage (CMAH) ; Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans (CAPM) ; Emerging Workforce Coalition ; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis ; Global Home Health Care ; IMAA ; Latino Economic Development Center ; Performance Excellence Network (PEN Team) ; Rochester-area Chamber of Commerce ; SE Minnesota Small Business Development Center (SBDC) ; The Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs ; Workforce Development Inc

Related Projects

40 Below: Building the workforce of the future ; Building Strong Communities ; Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Envisioning a 21st Century City: Regional Issues, Global Perspectives ; Equity in the Built Environment (Bloomberg) ; Mayo Supplier Diversity Program ; Rochester Works ; Supplier Diversity Initiative ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index ; World's Best Workforce

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Workforce Development

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: CMRC, Diversity and Inclusion, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, OpenBeam, Workforce Development

Level 2: African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Latino, LGBT, Women, Veteran, Workforce Development

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Social Determinants

Type of Project

Planning  

More info on City of Rochester website

Action Items

 1. Build capacity of Target Businesses located in Southeastern Minnesota

2. Evaluate the City of Rochester DMC Construction Workforce Participation 

3. Promote trade careers to under-employed, women, minorities and youth

4. Learn best practices for recruiting and training workforce

Plan Details

Letter to DMC Board

Targeted Group Data

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

2Q 2024: June 2024; May 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 

2023 4Q: November; October

2023 3Q Reports: September; August, July reports

2023 2Q: June 2023 Report (featuring Nashauna Johnson-Lenoir Success);  April 2023 Communications; Equity in Built Environment Career: Mentors and Guest Speakers Wanted. 

4Q22: December messages and reports; November messages and reports;  October messages and reports; 3Q2022:  August, July messages and reports; 2Q2022: June, May, April message and report; 1Q 2022 (1) TB report and message (2) An apprenticeship readiness program is now recruiting women, people of color and veterans for careers in the construction industry. (3) Bloomberg news

Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council is expanding Building Strong Communities to Southeast Minnesota.

2020-12-11 Report; 2020-11-02 October Report; 2020-09-30 September Report 

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

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

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."

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.

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

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.

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.”

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 

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.

"Example of careers they are interested in include radiology, artificial Intelligence, surgery, aeronautical engineering, psychology, sports, business administration and many more!"