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Beam Up DEI Actions for Area CBO's

Many area Community Based Organizations(CBO) to their credit are embarking on DEI projects and seek friendly guidance how to get going. OpenBeam to help identify actions that area organizations may pursue to make impacts on area's DEI needs. OpenBeam to provide assistance in two ways : (1) OpenBeam's founder, Al Lun, will serve as Diversity Council ambassador to be a conduit of information sharing between the CBO's and Diversity Council. If requested, a DC staff person may also join in the effort. (2) OpenBeam's dmcbeam.org community assets database is made available to enable community resources connectivity in general.

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Project Impact(s): Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, OpenBeam, Technology Enablement

This project is in Concept Phase.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: OpenBeam.net

Contact: Al Lun ; Email: [email protected] ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Diversity Council ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Foundation ; Rochester Area Nonprofit Consortium

Potential Collaborators: Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; County of Olmsted, MN ; History Center of Olmsted County ; Olmsted County Community Services ; Olmsted County HRA ; Olmsted County Human Rights Commission ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Area Foundation ; Rochester Area Nonprofit Consortium ; United Way of Olmsted County

Related Projects

Allies & Advocates ; America's City for Health ; Building Out Community Mobilization Resources Coalition ; Bystander to Upstander ; Collider Inclusion Open Entrepreneur Ecosystem Navigator ; Digital Equity IT ; Discovery Walk Co-designing ; Diversity Council Civic Equity Focus Area ; Intercultural Center, Rochester (Creating a 21st Century Community Space) ; Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) ; OpenBeam Activating Technologies Project ; Page Amendment ; Pathways to Equity ; Police Assisted Recovery (PAR Program) ; RPD Accountability Dashboard ; Racial Equity Resource Directory ; Rochester A City of Compassion (RocCoC) ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Best Practice

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, OpenBeam, Technology Enablement

Level 2: Diversity Training, Education, Education

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Tooling, Special  

 

 

Detailed Description

Many area Community Based Organizations(CBO) to their credit are embarking on DEI projects and seek friendly guidance how to get going. OpenBeam to help identify actions that area organizations may pursue to make impacts on area's DEI needs. 

OpenBeam to provide assistance in three ways :

(1) OpenBeam's founder, Al Lun, will serve as Diversity Council ambassador to be a conduit of information sharing between the CBO's and Diversity Council. If requested, a DC staff person may also join in the effort.

(2) OpenBeam's dmcbeam.org community assets database is made available to enable community resources connectivity in general.

(3) Updating OpenBeam's DEI notebook to reinforce Listen, Learn, Act framework. 

 

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Strategy
Unknown

 

Expected Results

Integration of DEI projects

Adoption of a systems-wide framework to drive DEI improvements in education, housing, health. 

 

Outcome Indicators

Clear investment strategy in community DEI efforts

Competion vs collaboration

 

 

Metrics

Collaboration methodologies improvement: How many projects use formal RBA

 

Key reports on: Beam Up DEI Actions for Area CBO's

How to approach a DEI improvement project (July 07, 2021)
 Use the Listen, Learn and Act model to support new DEI leaders in our community -- a living document to jot down OpenBeam's thoughts how organizations may contribute to our area's DEI progress.  

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Last modified by allnode on 2023/06/19
Created by allnode on 2016/10/18

 

 

 

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About Beam

Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester:

  • For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
  • For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
  • Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's  distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

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