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All DEI Events

 

This is a collection of what is deemed to be events having impacts on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  

 

See the Diversity Beam for notable DEI projects. 

 

 

Start Date Tags Title Description
Jan 12, 2023 09:00 AM ('Housing', 'diversity', 'Financial Stress') Southeast Minnesota Regional Housing Forum Expert Panel on Regional Initiatives; Breakout Sessions on Important Regional Topics; Policy, Advocacy, and Legislative Updates
Jan 10, 2023 10:00 AM ('rps', 'education', 'diversity', 'youth', 'openbeam', 'Education', 'cmrc') RPS: January 2023 Monthly District Family Engagement Meeting Topics: Family Engagement Success Sharing; Perspectives on RPS Family Engagement from a Latinx Parent; ACHLA and Family Engagement Minnesota Family Engagement Model
Jan 07, 2023 10:00 AM ('Diversity', 'Entrepreneurship') Culturally Responsive Business Startup Workshop Funding Your Business - Loans and Grants
Jan 07, 2023 09:00 AM ('food', 'Diversity', 'openbeam', 'Entrepreneurship') 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.
Jan 06, 2023 12:00 PM ('youth', 'Education', 'Diversity', 'Diversity Council') MLK Jr Youth Poetry Contest Submission Deadline Each year Diversity Council hosts the MLK Youth Poetry Contest in southeastern Minnesota. Students from all over the region are invited to submit poems celebrating Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. This is the 14th year of Diversity Council's poetry contest, and the theme for this year’s contest is Dr. King’s quote: “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
Dec 15, 2022 04:30 PM ('diversity', 'Diversity Council', 'CMRC', 'openbeam', 'Diversity', 'cmrc') CMRC December 2022 Meeting Topics include: RPS Family Engagement; Olmsted County: Statewide Health Improvement Partnership and DEI Community Corrections Services
Dec 15, 2022 04:30 PM ('diversity', 'Diversity Council', 'CMRC', 'openbeam', 'Diversity', 'cmrc') CMRC December 2022 Meeting Topics include: RPS Family Engagement; Olmsted County: Statewide Health Improvement Partnership and DEI Community Corrections Services
Dec 13, 2022 05:30 PM ('diversity', 'openbeam', 'community') 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.
Dec 13, 2022 10:00 AM ('rps', 'education', 'diversity', 'youth', 'openbeam', 'Education', 'cmrc') RPS: December 2022 Monthly District Family Engagement Meeting Topics include: Introduction to Beam
Dec 09, 2022 11:00 AM ('diversity', 'Health', 'covid') Community Vaccination Clinic Get vaccinated and receive $50 for 1st, 2nd dose AND ALSO FOR BOOSTER DOSE!
Dec 09, 2022 10:00 AM ('RAF', 'Diversity', 'openbeam') 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.
Dec 07, 2022 04:30 PM ('Diversity', 'openbeam', 'Human Library') Human Library Team Celebration (Members Only) Diversity Council Human Library Books Get Together.
Dec 03, 2022 04:00 PM ('operations', 'Diversity Council') YourClassical MPR and Rochester Civic Music: Bring the SING YourClassical MPR's fun, free event Bring the Sing is returning to Rochester! Minnesota Public Radio, Rochester Civic Music, Rochester Downtown Alliance and Threshold Arts are partnering to invite everyone in Rochester and Southeast Minnesota to join in YourClassical MPR’s Bring the Sing at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Peace Plaza. Join with friends, family and neighbors in singing along with local musicians LaSonya Natividad, Dianna Parks, Mitch Stevenson, Eric Straubmuller and Chris Wessel in a mass rendition of many festive, well-known winter and holiday favorites.
Dec 03, 2022 12:00 PM ('diversity', 'Health', 'covid') Covid-19 VAX at Winter Market Get vaccinated and receive $50 for 1st, 2nd dose AND ALSO FOR BOOSTER DOSE!
Dec 03, 2022 10:00 AM ('Diversity', 'Entrepreneurship') Culturally Responsive Business Startup Workshop Free Work Shop Second Topic: Legal Issues - Business Registration and Trademark
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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
DMC Annual Meeting 2024 Sep 19, 2024 04:00 PM - 07:00 PM — One Discovery Square 201 4th St SW Rochester, MN 55902
Interfaith Convening September 19th, 2024 Sep 19, 2024 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints facility, 2300 Viola Heights Drive, NE, Rochester 55906.
(Spanish) Financial Literacy Sep 21, 2024 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM — 221 First Ave. SW, Suite 600 6th Floor of the MNBio Business Center, Minnesota - Rochester MN 55902-3295
NAACP: Break The Hate – Community Forum To Activate Change Sep 21, 2024 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM — 125 Live
CMRC September 2024 Meeting Place Holder (Canceled) Sep 23, 2024 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Sep 26, 2024 DMC Board Meeting Sep 26, 2024 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
In the City for Good Rochester City Council Candidates Sep 26, 2024 06:30 PM - 08:15 PM — Christ United Methodist Church
(Spanish) How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1) Sep 28, 2024 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM — 221 First Ave SW, Suite 600 6th Floor of the MNBio Business Center, Rochester MN 55902-3295
C.E.R.T. 3rd Annual Gala Sep 28, 2024 05:00 PM - 10:00 PM — Empire Event Center 1517 16th Street Southwest Rochester, MN 55902
Global Mayor's Challenge Update Oct 02, 2024 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Upcoming events…
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Rochester Public Schools Referendum Nov 2024

Video and Slides

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?

 New Mayo Clinic, U of M framework aims to guide future research. 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



First Half 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

2Q 2024: June 2024May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development 

Last Updated July 01, 2024