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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
Coming to the Table Circles | Rochester Public Library Mar 25, 2023 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM — Rochester Public Library
DEED: Cultivating a Supportive Workplace Culture for Youth Apr 05, 2023 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM — Virtual
API Day at the Capitol 2023 Apr 11, 2023 09:00 AM - 01:30 PM
RCTC–PSEO INFORMATION NIGHT Apr 13, 2023 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM — Regional Sports Center Performance Court,
RMCC: Ramadan Iftar (breaking of fast) Dinner Apr 15, 2023 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
ICAM Bone Marrow Registry Drive Apr 16, 2023 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM — 125 Live, 125 Elton Hills Dr NW Room 112, Rochester, MN 55901
Veterans & Emergency Service Museum/Exhibits Apr 20, 2023 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM — Hilton Hotel - East Center Street & Broadway Ave S, Rochester, MN
SMIF Sprout Networking Event Apr 20, 2023 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM — 225 Event Center in St. James
Community of Wellness Life Style Medicine Apr 21, 2023 - Apr 22, 2023
Performance Excellent Network: Ascending Together May 03, 2023 - May 04, 2023
University of Minnesota: Four Physics Force Shows - Rochester 2023 (May 11 and May 12) May 11, 2023 10:00 AM - 11:30 PM — Mayo Civic Center Auditorium 30 Civic Center Drive SE Rochester, MN 55904-3701
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Community Status/News

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Preserving community area resources knowledge (March 11, 2023)

Rochester Area Resource List sourced from Diversity Council and link to Beam search engine.

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Use of "America City for Health" as moniker to attract DMC investment (February 25, 2023)

Feb 2023 Business Development status; Nov. 2021 Presentation to DMCC Board in November 2021 Board Meeting. Focus on attracting more companies coming in.  America City for Health as lead generation asset. 

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Commitment to Action for Racial Justice project (February 22, 2023)

1Q2023 NPC Quarterly Commitment Meeting Takeaways: Meeting Notes, YouTube of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man. 

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RCTC/Perkins Grant Opportunity (February 13, 2023)

RCTC/Perkins Grant: The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century

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2023 Destination Medical Center (DMC) Reports (February 10, 2023)

Feb 9 2023 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Collaborative Session

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MNDOT: Highway Heavy Carpenter Rochester Training (February 10, 2023)

Free five-week program. Starter tool set included after completing the program

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