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Organization: Environmental Initiative

Sector: 501C-3 Non-Profit

Organization Mission: Environmental Initiative is a nonprofit organization that works with business, nonprofit and government leaders to develop collaborative solutions to Minnesota’s environmental problems. The organization: Plans and hosts events for environmental leaders from businesses, nonprofits and government agencies to share information, network and learn from one another. Facilitates conversations addressing environmental, economic and public health issues between diverse stakeholders. Takes action and implements on the ground projects to improve our air, land and water for all Minnesotans.

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Environmental Initiative is a nonprofit organization that works with business, nonprofit and government leaders to develop collaborative solutions to Minnesota’s environmental problems.

The organization:

  • Plans and hosts events for environmental leaders from businesses, nonprofits and government agencies to share information, network and learn from one another.
  • Facilitates conversations addressing environmental, economic and public health issues between diverse stakeholders.
  • Takes action and implements on the ground projects to improve our air, land and water for all Minnesotans.

 

 


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Status Reports / News 
Related PlanScape Status on: Best Practice, Business Process, Sustainability

Key reports on: Environmental Initiative


October 16, 2024: 2024 Destination Medical Center Reports
Proceedings

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

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October 02, 2024: Rochester Vision 2050
Call for inputs: Mayor Norton YouTube Messages

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

 

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October 02, 2024: OpenBeam to support collective impact
Presentation Slides of Education Portal for C2C Oct 9, 2024 Education Summit

Results Based Accountability

Collective Impact: Spectrum of working together

Tech Support

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September 30, 2024: Economic Vibrancy & Growth Management

City teammates providing an update on this work, specifically regarding legacy public infrastructure projects, Unbound, infrastructure investments and regulatory milestones.  

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August 30, 2024: CMRC Legacy and Future

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

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August 07, 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.

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August 02, 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.

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June 22, 2024: Rochester Area Volunteer Administration Training Info

Volunteer Recruitment Effectiveness: What can advertising teach us? 

Volunteer Process Assessment 

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June 09, 2024: Olmsted County Community Indicators 2023
Report contains info: 

1. Demographics 2. Population by age 3. Diversity 4. Foreign-born population 5. Languages and ancestry 6. Educational trends 7. Household income 8. Poverty status 9. Health factors 10. Housing and living 11. Labor force 12. Unemployment rate 13. Election trends 14. Community safety 15. Environmental factors 16. Highlights 17. References

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June 03, 2024: May 2024 Minnesota Compass Newsletter

May MN Compass Newsletter

Importance of data disaggregation: Minnesota's Asian Population, Minnesota's Black communities

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May 01, 2024: Community Outreach Public Relations
Austin KSMQ R-Town Program Interview Segment about CMRC

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April 22, 2024: Credible Mind and Collective Impact
Introducing Credible Mind to support CHNA collaboration. 

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March 20, 2024: NIH Community Engagement Alliance Consultative Resource

We invite community organizations and partners who expressed interest in the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) initiative to participate at no cost in several opportunities hosted by CEACR.

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March 19, 2024: Action Request March 18, 2024
Comment at the 3/18/2024 City Council Meeting:

To act on September 21, 2020 council resolutions for the city staff to develop a Intercultural City action plan.  

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Impacts

The work of this organization may have impacts on the following areas:

PlanScape

Lvl 1: Best Practice ; Business Process ; Sustainability

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Projects/Programs

Confirmed Project Involvement: America's City for Health


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Known Collaborators

Onboard Collaborators: DMC EDA

 

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Organization Life Cycle Assessment (Pause, Startup, Steady, Isolated Impact, Collective Impact  Unknown)

Collective Impact

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Project Phase Definitions
The following defines the various project phases:
  1. Available - a product, program or service is in production
  2. Develop - program or application is being developed
  3. Plan - idea is solid, stakeholders are identified, and there is strong commitment to go forward from all parties.
  4. Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
    demonstration
  5. Pre-concept Phase - an early idea or a requirement.
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