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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
Oct 21, 2022 05:30 PM ('imaa', 'diversity', 'community', 'immigrant') IMAA Presents Pearl Gala
Oct 20, 2022 04:30 PM ('Culture', 'Diversity', 'CMRC', 'openbeam') October, 2022 CMRC General Meeting Topics include: Updates from City, County and RPS
Oct 11, 2022 12:00 PM ('Diversity', 'npc') NPC - October 2022 Commitment to racial justice
Oct 11, 2022 10:00 AM ('rps', 'education', 'diversity', 'youth', 'openbeam', 'Education', 'cmrc') RPS: October 11 2022 Monthly District Family Engagement Meeting Gage Gator Night; Elton Hills: Belonging and Aspirations; Lindsey Riess-Wilson: Student Services; National Hispanic American Heritage Month
Oct 04, 2022 10:00 AM ('youth', 'education', 'diversity', 'community') Cradle to Career (C2C) Annual Education Summit
Oct 01, 2022 12:00 PM ('culture', 'Diversity') Latino Fest 2022
Sep 30, 2022 10:00 AM ('RAF', 'Diversity') September 2022 Rochester Area Foundation: Fall DEI Practitioner Convening and Luncheon (By Invitation) Using Design Lab to frame the conversations
Sep 29, 2022 04:00 PM ('youth', 'social services', 'Diversity', 'community') Network & Connect Happy Hour with Jounie Celebrating 10 years of service
Sep 28, 2022 05:00 PM ('dmc', 'diversity') DMC Community Co-Design Celebration DMC will be hosting the celebration of the launch of our Community Co-Design Toolkit.
Sep 22, 2022 10:00 AM ('Education', 'diversity', 'Entrepreneurship') 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!
Sep 20, 2022 05:00 PM ('Education', 'Diversity') UMR & Mayo Clinic Present Kern Center Connects: Diversity Science Exploring projects, concepts, and structure
Sep 19, 2022 05:30 PM ('diversity', 'Human Library') Human Library - Mayo Clinic Dept of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Sep 17, 2022 10:00 AM ('welcoming', 'Diversity') Rochester Welcomes You! A Welcoming Week Festival
Sep 17, 2022 09:00 AM ('welcoming', 'DMC', 'Diversity') 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!
Sep 17, 2022 08:00 AM ('Diversity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'leadership', 'Asian', 'education') CAAL: 2022 Leadership Summit: Creating Community Constellations
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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
RAVA Holiday Happy Hour Dec 19, 2024 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM — Forager Brewery
Rochester City Council Swearing In Public Hearing Jan 06, 2025 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM — Olmsted County Government Center, 151 4th St SE, Rochester, MN 55904
RPS Jan 2025 Family Engagement Meeting: Opportunities for Students to Earn College Credit in High School Jan 14, 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM — Virtual
The Sound of Gospel Music Feb 28, 2025 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
United Way of Olmsted County Centennial Gala Mar 15, 2025 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM — J. Powers at the Hilton in Downtown Rochester
Upcoming events…
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Olmsted County rolling out new mobile crisis response process in 2025

Press Release: ROCHESTER, Minn. – Mental health continues to be a top concern for Olmsted County residents. When someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, timely assistance from trained mental health professionals is critical.  

Last Updated December 16, 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.

 PB Reporting regarding TIF $14M Requests (Sherman and Prairie Ridge) 2024-12-14 

Last Updated December 14, 2024


ISAIAH: Rochester Faith in MN Calendar and Strategic Missions

2025 Rochester Faith in MN Calendar and Strategic Missions

Last Updated December 13, 2024


Rochester-Olmsted County 4(d) Affordable Housing Incentive Program

The current Rochester-Olmsted County 4(d) Affordable Housing Incentive Program application is for the Tax Assessment Year 2025 - Tax Payable Year 2026, the tax savings for this application will not be realized until the Tax Payable Year 2026.

 

Last Updated December 11, 2024


Mayo Platform: A wealth of data, but how is it protected?

PB Reporting: Measuring the breadth of Mayo Clinic’s medical data abundance. 

Researchers beyond Mayo Clinic’s walls might make use of the Mayo Clinic Platform. Its data network, Connect, uses millions of de-identified patient records, test results, imaging, pathology reports and more from Mayo Clinic and seven other large health care systems across the world.

Last Updated December 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 

Rochester eyes TIF to support Transit Village, Public Parking

Last Updated December 07, 2024


Rochester Public Transit

To better serve the needs of residents in the southeast part of the city, Rochester Public Transit’s (RPT) on-demand transit service “RPT GO” has been modified in the following ways: 

Last Updated December 06, 2024


City of Rochester, MN Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

Mayor Norton Honors 2024 Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

Mayor Norton Honors 2023 Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

Mayor Norton Honors 2022 Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

Last Updated December 05, 2024


Exam Room Podcast

Rochester Clinic featured on The Exam Room podcast by Chuck Carroll alongside Rochester's Mayor Kim Norton.

 

Last Updated December 04, 2024


Resources for Homeless Students and Families in Rochester

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

PB Reporting

RPS Nov 2024 Family Engagement Presentation

Last Updated November 22, 2024


Workforce Development, Inc. presents The Downtown Business Pitch Day 2024

John Marshall High School eleventh grade Economics students will take center stage at the Chateau Theatre for the Downtown Business Pitch Day! 

Last Updated November 19, 2024


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)

This new RPAC will bring together residents, justice system representatives, and community organizations to promote and sustain restorative practices throughout Olmsted County. 

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


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