Beam Up DEI Actions for Area CBO's

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  

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. 

For more info on CBO projects: Take this LINK (Beam Login Required).  Contact us for access. 

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