Community Networking Group (CNG 2.0)

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: openBEAM.net

Contact: Al Lun ; Email: kalun@openbeam.net ; Phone: 507-269-3853

Known/Likely Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; Community Networking Group (CNG) ; Diversity Council ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Foundation ; Rochester Public Library ; United Way of Olmsted County

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan ; America's City for Health ; Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; Community Health Assessment Process ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Developing and Executing on Cradle to Career Plan ; Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) ; Non-profit Consortium Buildout ; Rochester A City of Compassion (RocCoC) ; Rochester Y Community Health Living Index Assessment (CHLI) ; Rochester, MN Transit Development Plan Update ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index

Impacts 

Major Impact:  CNG

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Business Process, Civic Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion, Economic Development, Education, Health, Technology Enablement, Workforce Development

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Planning  

Draft of relaunching message

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 

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.

Mayor Norton Honors 2023 Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

Mayor Norton Honors 2022 Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

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. 

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

PB Reporting on Referendum Efforts and Results

Love Wins: Community Empowerment Initiative

Free Workshop and Community Townhalls Press Release

Oct 2024 Reports

Reading Literacy Updates

Support for: Drug and Alcohol Response Team (DART), CredibleMind, "Be in the Know Olmsted" Campaign

September 2024 DMCC Board Meeting with 2025 Workplan Breakout

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

November 2024 Selma Film and Discussions

2024 Recognition: $1K Scholarship: 2024 Rochester H.S. Graduate: Application and Nomination, Sponsorship and Donation support, Facebook photos of 2024 Mr. and Miss Juneteenth

C2C October 9, 2024 Summit

Presentation Slides  

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

Results Based Accountability

Collective Impact: Spectrum of working together

Tech Support

The Early Childhood Resource Hub, a collaboration between C2C and IMAA, aims to connect Olmsted County families with young children to various resources and services.