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We build this website to help create a healthy and inclusive community where opportunity and responsibility are broadly shared.

The information contained here is obtained from various public sites and sources. Its goal is to show that Transparency, Accountability, Responsiveness and Process-centric (TARP) attributes of a community can be "beamed (Built, Enabled, Activated and Modeled)" into existence from a grass-roots level.

As we build out the site, we hope to awaken in the community an epiphany and a realization that a resilient community should have the vision and aspiration to develop and operate with interlocking processes and investments to allow public, economic and social development systems to complement each other so that collaboration is by design and not chance-encounter (or by luck).

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Community Beam has the following sub-sites

 

Community Mobilization Resources Center (CMRC)

A sub-site of dmcbeam.org, the Community Mobilization Resources Center (CMRC) aims to provide "continuous communication" for the CMRC Coalition to increase awareness and understanding of public, private, non-profit organizations' plans and needs so that individually and collectively we will be more effective in carrying out our mission of serving the community. 

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Grass Roots Pilot Sites

We are also hosting the following websites to support some of our area's grass-root initiatives:


Open Beam

Open Beam (aka Beam) is about leveraging Web 2.0 and cloud computing to build technology capacities to serve the community.

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Diversity Beam: OpenBeam.net in collaboration with Journey to Growth's Diversity/Inclusion Committee (now defunct) is "beaming" up this portal to showcase projects and organizations that aim to improve the well-being conditions of minority groups. Statistics such as those curated by Minnesota Compass tell us there are significant education and earning gaps in non-white populations across Minnesota. With projected workforce shortage and demographics trend, these gaps cannot persist if our region is to realize the Destination Medical Center (DMC) objectives and other overarching wellness aspirations.

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In the City for Good: A community forum to focus on issues indirectly affected by DMC economic development: Affordable Housing, Education, Historical Preservation, Living Wage, Social Justice, Social Services, Sustainability and Transportation 

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Education Beam: A Beam subsite that captures Rochester area's efforts to improve K-12 education outcomes. Projects such as RPS's strategic plan, area's Cradle to Career collective impact project and grass roots participation in RPS's community engagement effort. The subsite offers a layered navigation into these currently disjoint efforts with the hope to beam up system level coordination.

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Misc Websites

Kiwanis Rochester

"Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers, dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time."

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Dashboard Beam

Dashboard Dashboard Beam: Various anchor initiatives in Rochester have overlapping goals and that the organizations/teams driving these initiatives have great intention to collaborate. And the difficulty of teaming and collaboration among large scale projects is well-known though seldom receives serious discussions. That's why alignment of goals, indicators, strategies and measurements is highly valued in best-practices such as Lean 6 Sigma.

However, a rigid top-down approach which says everything has to be lined up before actions take place is not practical in our matrix world. What we champion is "beaming up" transparency, accountability, responsiveness and process-centric disciplines by leveraging technology to allow side-by-side visibility of various projects. This portal demonstrates how it could be done. Focused areas include: Disparities, Education, Housing, Economy, Workforce Development, and Health

Community Health Beam

A prototype portal that shows how virtual teaming for a "Community for Health" can be facilitated.

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ICI Beam

ICI Beam is a web portal built on top of Al Lun's dmcbeam.org web platform. It is offered as a demo to show how a dashboard tool could be used to track intercultural progress and to make ICI information sharing more consumable. 

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DMC Doc Beam

dmc docDMC Doc Beam is a "home-grown" portal that aims to build, enable, activate, model (beam) the TARP (transparency, accountability, responsiveness, process-centric) attributes onto the DMC Project.

Go there to read DMC documents and check status.

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Transportation Beam

transitEfficient, cost-effective transportation in SE Minnesota is crucial to its growth. We are building out this portal to demonstrate how technology can beam up (Build Enable Activate Model) transparency, accountability, responsiveness and project/process-centric execution of individual transportation plans, and to point out the need to have a systematic approach involving multiple public, private partnerships (PPP) to harmonize the various efforts.

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Upcoming Events
CMRC September 26, 2023 Meeting Sep 26, 2023 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM — Teams Meeting
DMC: September Equity Alliance-Equity Series Sep 27, 2023 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM — Virtual
September 28, 2023 DMCC Board Meeting Sep 28, 2023 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM — Mayo Civic Center
Olmsted County SHIP Open House Sep 28, 2023 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM — Olmsted County Public Health Building, 2100 Campus Drive, Rochester, MN
SBDC: Setting & Adjusting Pricing Sep 28, 2023 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM — SBDC CENTER MN BIOBUSINESS CENTER SIXTH FLOOR 211 1ST AVE SW ROCHESTER, MN
2023 C2C Annual Education Summit Oct 04, 2023 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM — Saint Mary's University of Minnesota - Rochester 2900 19th Street Northwest Rochester, MN 55901
2023 DMC Emerging Developer Expo Oct 05, 2023 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM — Two Discovery Square
SBDC: How Do I Start a Business - Session 1 Oct 05, 2023 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM — Northrop Community Education Center 201 8th St. NW Rochester, MN 55901 Room 319
SBDC: How Do I Start a Business - Session 2 Oct 12, 2023 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM — Northrop Community Education Center 201 8th St. NW Rochester, MN 55901 Room 319
October CMRC Meeting Oct 19, 2023 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
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NIH Challenge Grant - Build Up Trust (September 17, 2023)

Updates with CMRC, More info from NIH, Outreaches to Mayo, UMR and Olmsted County Public Health. 

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CMRC Advocacy for Health Equity (September 16, 2023)

CMRC Coalition's submission to Mayo Social Innovation Grant. 

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RPS Board Consider Updating District Equity Policy (September 15, 2023)

RPS Board Study Session video recording; Proposed Equity Policy; PB Reporting

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2Q 2023 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan (August 30, 2023)

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

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Rochester Intercultural Economic Exchange (RICE) (August 28, 2023)

A sample of video recordings of the  conference August 25, 2023 Health Bridge: US-China Health Industry Innovation Cooperation Conference

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DEED: Digital Opportunity Plan (August 22, 2023)

Presentation Slides; Instructions to submit comments, Draft Digital Opportunity Plan; Public Comment Sessions--Family Service Rochester will be hosting one of the public comment sessions 

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CMRC Support of Formation of a BioRochester Consortium (August 20, 2023)

Video Clip from CMRC August Mtg; CMRC Letters of Support; References: BioRochester Review meeting video; Summary of Draft 3 BioRochester Plan, and Final Grant Submission

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Technology Referendum for the Rochester schools (August 19, 2023)

Rochester 10 Year, $ 10M+ school funding referendum Op ED PB: Kent Pekel: "Why I recommended a technology referendum for the Rochester schools"

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RCTC/Perkins CMRC Report (August 18, 2023)

Emmright general contractor working with CERT, Pamoja Women, ACHLA, Rochester Cambodian Association, Journie, and OpenBeam submitted final report to RCTC. 

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Housing Alliance Coalition (August 14, 2023)

1. Housing Coalition Report: 2023 Legislative Housing Policy & Funding Update. 2. Future Starts at Home: Constitution Amendment For Housing

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