Community Dashboard
Description: Many best-practiced communities have implemented community web-based dashboards to provide a "read-out" of the health and wellness metrics of the community.
DMCC's website is a push technology and not so much as social, collaborative virtual teaming site.
Olmsted County, Mayo, OMG (and others) have just completed a community health study and published a report.
We should go further and have a plan to be more agile and responsive in changing statistics by implementing a dashboard.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Business Process
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Children & Youth
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Education
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OpenBeam
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Technology Enablement
Led by : openBEAM.net
Global Technovation Challenge
Description: Technovation is a 3-month program where teams of young women work together to imagine, design, and develop mobile apps, then pitch their “startup” businesses to investors.
Impacting :
Children & Youth
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Computer Literacy
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Education
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Mentoring
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OpenBeam
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STEM
Led by : Rochester Area Math and Science Partnership
Housing Alliance Coalition
Description: A continuing project to realize this purpose: “We are a cross-sector Alliance of organizations and individuals who seek to preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing that meets community needs and priorities in the Rochester area, through shared information, coordination, and collaboration.”
Impacting :
Aging
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Business Process
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Commitment
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Housing
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Neighborhood
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OpenBeam
Led by : Coalition for Rochester Area Housing
Human Libray of Southeaster Minnesota
Description: The Human Library, an initiative developed by the World Culture Center in Denmark, allows
people and organizations to check out human "books" for a unique learning experience. If you
want to know what it's like to be, say, a single mother, a homeless person, a refugee, or a gay
man, you check one out of the library and they share their personal story and answer your
questions.
Impacting :
Diversity and Inclusion
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OpenBeam
Led by : Diversity Council
Joint Studies on tackling Racism as a Public Health Issue
Description: Olmsted County commissioners are looking to tackle racism as a public health issue. The board on August 4, 2020 unanimously approved a measure officially asking members of the county’s Public Health Services Advisory Board and Human Rights Commission to work together to investigate racism and disparities in health care.
Impacting :
Diversity and Inclusion
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Governance/Public Policy
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Health
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OpenBeam
Led by : County of Olmsted, MN
Project HEALINGS of MN
Description: HEALINGS provides an opportunity to close vaccination gaps and solve persistent health inequities by galvanizing disparate regional efforts and forging unbreakable connections between BIPOC Minnesotans and the state, local, private, and nonprofit entities that serve them. More than 250,000 touches that will establish a formidable network of human relationships to fulfill current COVID priorities and lay a foundation for equitable management of major health events arising in the future. The initiative will focus on Minnesota’s major population centers and the tribal communities of the Anishinaabe and Dakota.
Impacting :
Best Practice
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Health
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Medical Services
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OpenBeam
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Pandemic
Led by : Diversity Council
RISE for Youth
Description: RISE for Youth is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) designed to help Black and underrepresented students transform themselves from youth with potential to competitive and empowered talent entering the workforce. The program aims to create new pathways for success by providing students with critical educational and leadership skills, training and long-term mentoring for successful careers in health care, science and beyond.
Impacting :
Children & Youth
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Education
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Mentoring
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OpenBeam
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STEM
;
Technology Enablement
Led by : Mayo Clinic
Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan
Description: To further increase participation rates of targeted businesses and workforce on DMC projects, four
priorities have been identified that are outlined below.
(1) Build capacity of Targeted Businesses located in Southeastern Minnesota
(2) Assess gaps with existing subcontractors to determine market opportunity.
(3) Recruit women and minorities from workforce to start their own companies.
(4) Host workshops to educate entrepreneurs, provide consulting services for WMBVE
certification process and assist with bid process to win contracts on DMC projects.
Impacting :
Diversity and Inclusion
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Economic Development
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Entrepreneurship
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OpenBeam
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Workforce Development
Led by : City of Rochester, MN
The Village Community Garden & Learning Center (VCGLC)
Description: The Village - Where We Grow Together!
The Village Community Garden & Learning Center is a new community garden opening this 2019 growing season. The focus of this garden is to grow together as a community that comes from many parts of our world, and to learn about each other's traditions in food, arts, and culture. Thank you to Rochester Home Infusion for donating 11 acres for this project, and to our many partners at Diversity Council, Olmsted County, U of M Extension, Rochester Farmers Market, UMR, and RCTC.
We are excited to share this new community asset with the city of Rochester and surrounding communities. This season will focus on the establishment of the garden through development of water resources, fencing, funding for event resources, and building our community of gardeners. We look forward to growing together!
Impacting :
Arts & Culture
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Education
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Food
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Health
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Immigration
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OpenBeam
Led by : Diversity Council
