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7188 Results for
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Upstream Arts, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,219
Creative Intersections
Hennepin
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Special School District 1
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Creative Intersections
Hennepin
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COLLAGE
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Creative Intersections
Ramsey
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Maple Grove Arts Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Creative Intersections
Hennepin
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Rosetown Playhouse
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,203
Creative Intersections
Ramsey
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Saint Stephen's Human Services AKA zAmya Theater Project
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Creative Intersections
Hennepin
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Domestic Violence Council of Anoka County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,550
Funding for a community initiative to raise awareness about relationship violence. Project partners include: Alexandra House; Spring Lake Park High School; Northwest Passage High School; Columbia Heights High School; Community Health Improvement, Mercy &
Anoka
Recipient
Arcata Press AKA Saint Paul Almanac
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Creative Intersections
Ramsey
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Footprints Collective
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,947

The Veterans Play Project

Hennepin
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Lyndale Neighborhood Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Creative Intersections
Hennepin
Recipient
Obsidian Arts
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,510

Songs for Our Fathers

Hennepin
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One Voice Mixed Chorus
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
OUT in Our Schools
Ramsey
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Rainbow Rumpus
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,233
Celebrating Our Family Stories
Hennepin
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Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Park Legacy Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Creative Intersections
Hennepin
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Rosetown Playhouse
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,240
Summer Play Program
Ramsey
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Special School District 1
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Funding for a summer hip-hop camp for students of Laney Middle School. Project partners include: Minneapolis Public Schools, Redeemer Center for Life, University of Minnesota Urban 4-H.
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Vadnais Heights
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,395
Funding for a community-created, public art piece for the City of Vadnais Heights. Project partners include: S&T Office Products, Merrick, Inc.
Ramsey
Recipient
Youth Farm and Market Project
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Funding for functional, public art creations in communities around Saint Paul’s West Side. Project partners include: Riverview Economic Development Association, City of St. Paul Department of Public Works.
Hennepin
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New Prague Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Scott
Recipient
Rosemount Area Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,300
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Dakota
Recipient
Saint Louis Park Friends of the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Hennepin
Recipient
Works Progress
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,934
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Hennepin
Recipient
ArtiCulture
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Hennepin
Recipient
ArtReach Saint Croix
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Washington
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East Side Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Ramsey
Recipient
Corcoran Neighborhood Organization
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,767
Funding for Slow Down and Enjoy the Public Art. A project engaging youth and families in ten public art activities in the Corcoran Neighborhood. Project partners include: Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board - Corcoran Park.
Hennepin
Recipient
Kaleidoscope Place
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to expand their Arts Learning Program, which provides artist residencies to 250 students each year.Project partners include: Lutheran Social Service, and COMPAS.
Hennepin
Recipient
Pine Soil and Water
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source

These projects will improve water quality by reducing the sediment and phosphorus delivery to the Kettle and St. Croix River Watersheds and engage and educate municipalities and the public regarding the water quality benefits of shoreline buffers and rain gardens. Phosphorus and sediment delivery to the Kettle River from stormwater runoff at Robinson Park in the City of Sandstone will be reduced by the establishment of a native buffer and repair of the river bank by installing soil wraps implanted with deep rooted native species.

Pine
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Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84,400
Fund Source

The St. Croix River is a national Wild and Scenic River. The river continues to see a decline in water quality due to elevated nutrient levels. Erosion of gullies along the river contribute large amounts of sediment and nutrients to the river.

Chisago
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Washington Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,175
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to offer grant funding to boat marinas located in Washington County on the St. Croix River to complete water quality improvement projects. St. Croix marinas own large amounts of shoreline plus there are roads, parking areas, buildings, and garages. These all produce runoff that drains directly into the St. Croix River. Marinas also often include pollution hotspots due to the presence of boat fueling areas.

Washington
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Chisago SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$117,000
Fund Source

In 2011, the Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) received a Clean Water Fund (CWF) grant to inventory active gully erosion sites along the St. Croix River from the Wild River State Park entrance south to the Chisago/Washington county line. This inventory is now being used to contact landowners with active and severe gully erosion to begin the process of developing a plan correct the problems using Best Management Practices (BMPs). In 2012, the SWCD was awarded a CWF grant to begin implementation.

Chisago
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Pine SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,400
Fund Source

This project will address impairments in the St. Croix, Kettle and Snake River Watersheds by reducing sediment and phosphorus delivery by encouraging private forest landowners within the St. Croix River Watershed in Pine County to re-establish riparian forest buffers, maintain existing riparian buffers and plant de-forested areas. It will develop a forest stewardship program and write forest stewardship plans in watersheds with the highest risk of impacts on water quality as listed by the Minnesota Forest Resources Council. This project will implement measures to achieve the St.

Pine
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Pine SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,800
Fund Source

This project will improve water quality, reducing phosphorus annually by 1,842 in the St. Croix, Kettle and Snake River Watersheds in Pine County by establishing cover crops to reduce erosion and phosphorus/fertilizer applications, increase soil fertility, permeability, and microbe activity. A no-till drill will be purchased for use by agricultural producers for installing cover crops as a means of decreasing soil erosion, reducing phosphorus and fertilizer applications and increasing soil health.

Pine
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Chisago SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,579
Fund Source

This project will inventory active gully erosion sites along the St. Croix River escarpment from the entrance to Wild River State Park near Almelund, MN, and south to the Chisago County line. The resulting inventory will be utilized to contact landowners with actively eroding gully sites on their property and will begin the process of developing a plan to implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) to correct the problems.

Chisago
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Wright Soil and Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$98,300
Fund Source

The Wright Soil and Water Conservation District has partnered with the Crow River Organization of Water (CROW) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service on this comprehensive sediment reduction project to focus on stabilizing five of the most active gully erosion sites on the Crow River. A LiDAR study and follow up field inspection identified 15 priority sites within the study area. This particular area was chosen due to the high level of turbidity and low dissolved oxygen within this stretch of the Crow River.

Wright
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Wright Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,580
Fund Source

The Crow River is a major river system in Wright County that is of local and regional significance. It is a major recreation area in its own right but also flows into the Mississippi River 20 miles from the Minneapolis Drinking Water Plant intake. Elevated sediment levels in the river increases the cost of treating the river water and threatens fisheries habitat.

Wright
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Crow Wing County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,000
Fund Source

Crow Wing County, in cooperation with the municipalities within the County, plans to continue its successful well sealing program that pays 50% of the cost to seal / abandon wells up to a maximum of $1000 per well. Priority will be given to wells located in or near existing wellhead protection areas.

Crow Wing
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Crow Wing County
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
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Wright SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$143,625
Fund Source

The Wright Soil and Water Conservation District has partnered with the Crow River Organization of Waters (CROW) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on phase two of this comprehensive sediment reduction project to focus on stabilizing five of the most active gully erosion sites in targeted subwatersheds on the North Fork Crow River, as well as use the installed best management practices to help promote future conservation practices.

Wright
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Wright SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$189,750
Fund Source

The Wright Soil and Water Conservation District has partnered with the Crow River Organization of Water and the Natural Resources Conservation Service on phase three of a comprehensive sediment reduction project that focuses on stabilizing seven of the most active gully erosion sites on the North Fork Crow River. These seven areas were chosen due to the high level of turbidity and low dissolved oxygen within that stretch of the North Fork Crow River, which has led to biological and turbidity impairments.

Wright