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Jan 07, 2023 09:00 AM Global Market (Cooking Class, Small Business Training, Food & Deserts) Rochester's cultural communities hosting family friendly winter activities. Come to experience authentic flavors and vibrant traditions. ('food', 'Diversity', 'openbeam', 'Entrepreneurship')
Dec 15, 2022 04:30 PM CMRC December 2022 Meeting Topics include: RPS Family Engagement; Olmsted County: Statewide Health Improvement Partnership and DEI Community Corrections Services ('diversity', 'Diversity Council', 'CMRC', 'openbeam', 'Diversity', 'cmrc')
Dec 15, 2022 04:30 PM CMRC December 2022 Meeting Topics include: RPS Family Engagement; Olmsted County: Statewide Health Improvement Partnership and DEI Community Corrections Services ('diversity', 'Diversity Council', 'CMRC', 'openbeam', 'Diversity', 'cmrc')
Dec 13, 2022 05:30 PM 2022 Luther College Rochester Semester Seminar Project Presentations Luther College Students: We are preparing our final presentations in which we will share our ideas about how to create a more equitable city in Rochester. ('diversity', 'openbeam', 'community')
Dec 13, 2022 10:00 AM RPS: December 2022 Monthly District Family Engagement Meeting Topics include: Introduction to Beam ('rps', 'education', 'diversity', 'youth', 'openbeam', 'Education', 'cmrc')
Dec 09, 2022 10:00 AM December 2022 Rochester Area Foundation: Winter DEI Practitioner Convening and Luncheon (By Invitation) RAF’s DEI Committee has committed to supporting area DEI practitioners by providing space where relationships can be strengthened, wisdom can be shared, opportunities to collaborate and maximize limited resources can be identified, and current and new DEI efforts can be built, improved, and promoted. ('RAF', 'Diversity', 'openbeam')
Dec 08, 2022 02:30 PM Discover Discovery Square You are cordially invited to Discover Discovery Square – an event to celebrate the completion of phase 1 of the next signature public space in the DMC District, Discovery Walk, and to recognize the continued progress in the Discovery Square subdistrict. ('EDA', 'community engagement', 'openbeam')
Dec 08, 2022 07:30 AM 4Q 2022 December HAPP Meeting Quarterly Olmsted County Health Asessment & Planning Meeting. The purpose of the health assessment and planning partnership is to engage and inspire all sectors of the community to continually improve our community’s health through assessment, planning, and implementation efforts. ('CHNA', 'community', 'CHAP', 'Health', 'openbeam')
Dec 07, 2022 04:30 PM Human Library Team Celebration (Members Only) Diversity Council Human Library Books Get Together. ('Diversity', 'openbeam', 'Human Library')
Dec 03, 2022 09:00 AM Global Market (Cooking Class, Small Business Training, Food & Deserts) Rochester's cultural communities hosting family friendly winter activities. Come to experience authentic flavors and vibrant traditions. ('food', 'Diversity', 'openbeam', 'Entrepreneurship')
Dec 01, 2022 09:00 AM Commitment to Racial Justice Day of Learning: Olmsted County’s Race and Racism as a Public Health Issue Report Recently, the Olmsted County Board of Commissioners accepted the final recommendations from a joint study on race and racism as a public health issue led by two of its advisory groups. Work will begin this fall to review the recommendations and develop an implementation plan. ('networking', 'diversity', 'openbeam', 'npc')
Nov 29, 2022 12:00 PM MNCM: Pandemic’s Impact on Health Care Quality by Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Country of Birth New report provides data to support health equity investment. ('health', 'Diversity', 'openbeam')
Nov 19, 2022 05:00 PM Rochester Branch of the NAACP, 2022 Freedom Fund Banquet Dinner, Entertainment, State Conference Remarks, Branch Report, Roll Call of Black Businesses, Black Business Awards ('diversity', 'NAACP', 'openbeam')
Nov 18, 2022 10:00 AM America City for Health Meeting Progress on the co-design training and discuss the 2023 plan for co-design facilitator and leadership training cohorts, as well as look for feedback and direction for recruitment. Share progress and timeline for the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge Prize work. ('co-design', 'DMC', 'Health', 'openbeam')
Nov 17, 2022 04:30 PM CMRC November 2022 Meeting: Special Topic, Olmsted County Joint Studies on Tackling Racism as a Public Health Issue Topics include: City, County, RPS Updates. Feature topics: Joint Studies on Tackling Racism as a Public Health Issue ('diversity', 'Diversity Council', 'CMRC', 'openbeam', 'Diversity', 'cmrc')
Nov 16, 2022 03:30 PM RAF: DEI Practitioner Monthly Drop-In Session Share in a safe space, build relationships, encourage, collaborate together. ('RAF', 'diversity', 'openbeam')
Nov 15, 2022 05:30 PM CoStarters Start Something CO.STARTERS helps communities build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems by equipping them with the best tools and resources needed to support starters of all kinds. ('DMC', 'diversity', 'workforce', 'Entrepreneurship', 'openbeam')
Nov 15, 2022 11:30 AM UMR: State of the Campus Featuring Maroon and Bold Innovations as we move onward to lead transformation in higher education and empower graduates to solve the grand health challenges of the 21st century. ('higher ed', 'community engagement', 'openbeam', 'UMR')
Nov 15, 2022 10:00 AM RPS: November 11 2022 Monthly District Family Engagement Meeting Learn about Family Engagement at host site: Riverside (10:05-10:20); November spotlight on RPS Family Engagement Sites: Sunset Terrace, ALC, and other site highlights (10:20-10:30); Presentation on Pamoja Women with Cofounders Fatuma Ahmed and Khadija Ali: Empowering Women and Building Families (10:30-10:50); Conversation Groups: Minnesota's New Family Engagement Model (10:50-11:10) ('rps', 'education', 'diversity', 'youth', 'openbeam', 'Education', 'cmrc')
Nov 09, 2022 01:00 PM Asia Mall Private Opening CMRC SC members connections with MSP resources to explore collaboration potential. ('Culture', 'culture center', 'openbeam', 'Entrepreneurship')
Oct 20, 2022 04:30 PM October, 2022 CMRC General Meeting Topics include: Updates from City, County and RPS ('Culture', 'Diversity', 'CMRC', 'openbeam')
Oct 11, 2022 10:00 AM RPS: October 11 2022 Monthly District Family Engagement Meeting Gage Gator Night; Elton Hills: Belonging and Aspirations; Lindsey Riess-Wilson: Student Services; National Hispanic American Heritage Month ('rps', 'education', 'diversity', 'youth', 'openbeam', 'Education', 'cmrc')
Sep 13, 2022 10:00 AM RPS September Welcome to Family Engagement 2022-2023! Topics include: Jennifer Spindler-Krage - Intro; Idea Share: What are your ideas?; Group sharing of activities for 2023; What speakers would you like to hear?; Reach: A Framework for Starting School Year; Talking Points: Multilingual Family-Teacher communication platform; Speak Up for Safety; Fall Early Childhood Family Services; RPS Family Engagement Feedback Survey ('RPS', 'adult', 'key', 'education', 'openbeam')
Jul 25, 2022 09:00 AM RISE for Youth Career Fair (By Invitation) Exhibitors include Open Beam, Diversity Council, Post Bulletin, IBM, First Alliance Credit Unition, RPS, RPD, Olmsted County, Mayo, UMR, KTTC, RCTC, Winona State, Rochester Fire Department, Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce, IBM ('education', 'diversity', 'community', 'youth', 'openbeam', 'Education')
May 11, 2022 12:00 PM Economic and Cultural Exchange (Invitation Only) Explore the cultural and economic development connectivity potential between MN Metro and Rochester-area resources from a BIPOC perspective and specifically from an MN Asian perspective ('Diversity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Culture', 'openbeam', 'Asian')
Apr 27, 2022 07:00 PM Human Library at Bethel Lutheran ('openbeam', 'Diversity', 'Diversity Council', 'Human Library')
Apr 06, 2022 09:00 AM Human Library City of Rochester Leadership Team The Human Library of Southeastern Minnesota educates people using human experience, cultivating empathy in such a manner that differences, barriers, and prejudice fall away - we expose and nurture the spirit of humankind by building common understanding and connections. ('welcoming', 'openbeam', 'Human Library', 'diversity', 'CMRC')
Feb 18, 2022 10:00 AM February 2022 Community and City for Health Topics include ICI updates; Co-design Tool Kid; Future Discussions ('community health', 'co-design', 'openbeam', 'community')
Feb 09, 2022 12:00 PM Human Library In Support of RCTC LHW Sabbatical Project The Human Library of Southeastern Minnesota educates people using human experience, cultivating empathy in such a manner that differences, barriers, and prejudice fall away - we expose and nurture the spirit of humankind by building common understanding and connections. ('welcoming', 'openbeam', 'Human Library', 'diversity', 'CMRC')
Jan 21, 2022 10:00 AM January 2022 Community and City for Health Strategic planning to explore the region's vision to be America's City for Health (beyond co-design) in the coming year ('community health', 'co-design', 'openbeam', 'community')
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1. A list of Beam aware upcoming community events of all types. 

2. A list of noteworthy past events that have one or more of the following contents: presentation slides, video recordings as well as takeaways. 

Community News

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Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan

National Sustainability Society awards Minnesota’s Climate-Smart Municipalities Program with 2024 Achievement Award

Last Updated September 18, 2024



Rochester Public Schools Referendum Nov 2024

RPS Superintendent Video and Presentation Slides

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

Last Updated September 17, 2024



C2C Report Child Care Report

Reports Downloaded from C2C website

Childcare Insight Report

Breakouts

Last Updated September 15, 2024



League of Women Voters - Rochester Chapter

2024 Debates

Last Updated September 13, 2024



Three Rivers Restorative Justice Announcements

Two positions: Program Manager; Admin Assistant

August 27, 2024 Organization Updates

Last Updated September 09, 2024



CMRC Legacy and Future

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

Last Updated August 30, 2024



SBDC Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

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

Last Updated August 27, 2024



Tax Breaks to Landlords

PB reporting: A local program providing tax breaks to landlords in exchange for maintaining lower rents is being tweaked to encourage future development of affordable housing.

Last Updated August 16, 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

Last Updated August 12, 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."

Last Updated August 08, 2024



Transportation: ROCOG Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)

2024 - 2027 Transportation Plan 

2023 - 2026 Transportation Plan: The Rochester-Olmsted Council of Governments (ROCOG) has released a draft of the 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), for a 30-day public comment period. 

Last Updated August 08, 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.

Last Updated August 07, 2024



Second Half 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

 

 

Last Updated August 05, 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.

Last Updated August 02, 2024



C2C Summer 2024 Sparklers

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

Last Updated July 27, 2024



Bryk Apartments Rental Eligibility Amendment

July 17, 2024 City of Rochester: Adopting a Resolution authorizing an amendment to the Development Assistance Agreement and the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants to revise the affordability covenants related to the 80% Units.

March and May 2023 reports to DMCC including video, documents and presentations. 

Last Updated 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.

 

Last Updated July 17, 2024



How does racism impact people’s health?

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.”

Last Updated July 13, 2024



Norsq Cos Townhomes & Two state-supported Mayowood housing projects

PB Reporting Housing Projects

Proposed $68M 187-unit rental townhome project.

Olmsted County Trailside Apartments $13 million project 36-Unit Senior Apartments, Bear Creek Development and Three Rivers Community Action $22.7 million Restoration Glen, 48-Unit Apartment Complex,

 

Last Updated July 11, 2024



United Way of Olmsted County Report

$1.1 million funding for 48 participants 2024-07-10

FoodSecurity noun “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways” (USDA).

Last Updated July 10, 2024