Online Tour of Listening Point
To hire qualified professionals to develop a script and preliminary video for an upcoming online tour of Sigurd Olson?s Listening Point property and writing shack.
$4,500,000 the first year and $6,500,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Funds are to be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer these funds using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
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In terms of the measurable impacts and indicators included in our grant application, we have only slightly missed the expected target of having 100% of the footage for the Online Tour complete. Otherwise, the draft script for the Online Tour is complete and has been critically reviewed by experts on Sigurd Olson's life and the places in which he lived, with both reviewers happily agreeing to continue to advise the project to its ultimate completion.
Given the changes in funding that we faced, it is not certain that we will achieve our original goal of having the online tour available on the Listening Point Foundation website by December 31st. We will, however, continue towards that goal with continued work to finish the filming and edit the footage. As this was a development phase for a longer term project, it was a solid step forward. Though we missed submitting the milestone reports in a timely manner, we still essentially achieved our desired outcomes.
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org