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Sep 30, 2022 10:00 AM September 2022 Rochester Area Foundation: Fall DEI Practitioner Convening and Luncheon (By Invitation) Using Design Lab to frame the conversations ('RAF', 'Diversity')
Sep 29, 2022 04:00 PM Network & Connect Happy Hour with Jounie Celebrating 10 years of service ('youth', 'social services', 'Diversity', 'community')
Sep 28, 2022 05:00 PM DMC Community Co-Design Celebration DMC will be hosting the celebration of the launch of our Community Co-Design Toolkit. ('dmc', 'diversity')
Sep 22, 2022 10:00 AM LATINX SUMMIT 2022 For Social Entrepreneurs Open to all college students and recent graduates in Greater Minnesota that are interested in learning about social entrepreneurship in the Latinx community! ('Education', 'diversity', 'Entrepreneurship')
Sep 20, 2022 05:00 PM UMR & Mayo Clinic Present Kern Center Connects: Diversity Science Exploring projects, concepts, and structure ('Education', 'Diversity')
Sep 19, 2022 05:30 PM Human Library - Mayo Clinic Dept of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation ('diversity', 'Human Library')
Sep 17, 2022 10:00 AM Rochester Welcomes You! A Welcoming Week Festival ('welcoming', 'Diversity')
Sep 17, 2022 09:00 AM Can you dig it? Destination Medical Center, Knutson Construction, and the City of Rochester MN invite community families to The Big Dig — learn about the Discovery Walk project in downtown Rochester MN! ('welcoming', 'DMC', 'Diversity')
Sep 17, 2022 08:00 AM CAAL: 2022 Leadership Summit: Creating Community Constellations ('Diversity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'leadership', 'Asian', 'education')
Sep 16, 2022 06:00 PM C.E.R.T. 1st Annual Awards Banquet ('public safety', 'Diversity', 'civic engagement')
Sep 16, 2022 04:00 PM Welcoming Week 2022 : You are invited to a citizenship celebration! ('community engagement', 'Diversity', 'welcoming', 'community')
Sep 14, 2022 12:30 PM Q3 2022 MPR Regional Deveopment Advisory Committee Featuring Duchesne Drew, Senior Vice President of American Public Media Group and President of Minnesota Public Radio as part of his tour of Greater Minnesota MPR Regional Network and Brandt Williams: North Star Journey initiative from MPR ('mpr', 'diversity', 'community')
Sep 09, 2022 04:30 PM Asian Pacific Minnesotans Leadership Awards Dinner: Democracy in the Time of Covid Strengthening Our Ties to One Another ('networking', 'HEALINGS', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Culture', 'Asian', 'Diversity')
Aug 22, 2022 10:00 AM Pop up vaccine shots event at Rochester ('education', 'diversity', 'Diversity Council', 'adult')
Aug 20, 2022 01:00 PM Ethiopian Heritage Day ('culture', 'Diversity')
Aug 17, 2022 02:30 PM August 17 2022 Age-Friendly Planning At this meeting, we will begin the planning by creating a community asset inventory that we will use as an important element of determining priorities for action. Here is how the inventory is described in the AARP Livability literature: ('aging', 'diversity', 'key', 'community')
Aug 12, 2022 12:00 PM NAWIC Annual Scholarship Golf Outing ('women', 'Diversity', 'community', 'Entrepreneurship')
Aug 11, 2022 05:30 PM CAAL: From Stories to Action: Fostering inclusion for Asian Minnesotans in Schools (1) Student and parent organizers who will share their experiences with anti-Asian hate incidents in the past 2 years, (2) Superintendents from Edina Public Schools, Forest Lake, and St Paul Public Schools. ('diversity', 'community', 'Asian', 'Diversity', 'Education')
Aug 11, 2022 04:30 PM Diversity Council 2022 - Reflect, Repair, Restore (A centering celebration) ('Diversity',)
Aug 10, 2022 03:30 PM Commitment to Racial Justice Day of Learning: White Supremacy Culture in Nonprofits ('Diversity',)
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Two types of event information being shared in the following:

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. 

Upcoming Events
NAACP Rochester Branch Elections Nov 16, 2024 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
United Way Webinar Get Connected Volunteer Portal Nov 18, 2024 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM — Virtual
Pre Bid Open House- Link Bus Rapid Transit Project Nov 18, 2024 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM — Rochester Police Department- North Station (4001 W. River PKWY NW, Rochester MN)
Partnership for Successful Homeownership Nov 21, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM — Rochester Area Foundation
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Cultivating Well-being in the Workplace

MENTAL HEALTH FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER PROFESSIONALS:

" Ascend’s Mental Health Survey of API professionals found that overall, APIs reported mental health was worse than Americans’ mental health as a whole, with 39% of APIs reporting fair to poor mental health compared to 25% of the general American population." 

Last Updated November 14, 2024



Restorative Practices Advisory Committee

Press Release: Olmsted County residents encouraged to apply for Restorative Practices Advisory Committee (RPAC)

Last Updated November 14, 2024



Rochester Public Schools Referendum Nov 2024

RPS Superintendent Video and Presentation Slides

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

PB Reporting on Referendum Efforts and Results

Last Updated November 11, 2024



Partnership to develop software platform to improve homeless medical care

PB Reporting: "A partnership between the Zumbro Valley Medical Society and the PathCheck Foundation, an open-source software nonprofit, aims to create a digital platform to boost care coordination for people experiencing homelessness."

Last Updated November 11, 2024



City of Rochester Encourages Area Youth to Participate in Statewide Mayor for a Day Essay Contest

The City of Rochester and Mayor Kim Norton are excited to once again participate in the League of Minnesota Cities’ (LMC) annual Mayor for a Day Essay Contest.  

Last Updated November 09, 2024



"Link BRT a milestone project for Rochester

City of Rochester Receives $84.92 Million Federal Grant for Transformative Link Bus Rapid Transit Project

LINK Progress Report to City Council 

Last Updated October 26, 2024



Certification Workshops

City of Rochester, DMC EDA, Equity in The Built Environment Program, and State of Minnesota Department of Administration APPEX Accelerator are partnering to host a series of Free Certification Workshops” to help Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) and Targeted Group/Economically Disadvantaged/Veteran-Owned (TG/ED/VO) companies apply for certification.

Last Updated October 25, 2024



Rochester NAACP And Mayo Clinic AD MERG

Love Wins: Community Empowerment Initiative

Free Workshop and Community Townhalls Press Release

Last Updated October 24, 2024



DMC September 2024 Job Creation Metric

Presentation Slides 

Video Clip of Job Creation Metric

 

Last Updated October 21, 2024



RPS Family Engagement Reports

Oct 2024 Reports

Reading Literacy Updates

Last Updated October 21, 2024



Olmsted County shares update on opioid settlement fund use

Support for: Drug and Alcohol Response Team (DART), CredibleMind, "Be in the Know Olmsted" Campaign

 

Last Updated October 17, 2024



DMC 2025 Budgets

2025 Budget and Workplan September DMCC Board Meeting

City Council Oct 2024 on DMC 2025 Budget

 

Last Updated October 16, 2024



2024 Destination Medical Center Reports

Proceedings

September 2024 DMCC Board Meeting with 2025 Workplan Breakout

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

Last Updated October 16, 2024



Juneteenth Activities

November 2024 Selma Film and Discussions

2024 Recognition: $1K Scholarship: 2024 Rochester H.S. Graduate: Application and Nomination, Sponsorship and Donation support, Facebook photos of 2024 Mr. and Miss Juneteenth

Last Updated October 11, 2024



Rochester Community Initiative (RCI)

Students Decoded: The Mental Health Database

C2C October 9, 2024 Summit

Presentation Slides  

 

Last Updated October 09, 2024



Rochester Vision 2050

Call for inputs: Mayor Norton YouTube Messages

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

 

Last Updated October 02, 2024



OpenBeam to support collective impact

Presentation Slides of Education Portal for C2C Oct 9, 2024 Education Summit

Results Based Accountability

Collective Impact: Spectrum of working together

Tech Support

Last Updated October 02, 2024



Resources for Homeless Students and Families in Rochester

Collaboration of Rochester Public Schools, Olmsted County, and Three Rivers Community Action

Last Updated October 01, 2024



Early Childhood Resource Hub Launch

The Early Childhood Resource Hub, a collaboration between C2C and IMAA, aims to connect Olmsted County families with young children to various resources and services.

 

Last Updated October 01, 2024



West Transit Village

September 2024 DMCC Board Update

September 2022 DMCC Board Status: NTH to run a developer selection process with Mayo

 

Last Updated September 30, 2024