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U.S. Geological Survey
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$488,000
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,310
Partner Organizations: Kasson Alliance for Restoration, Mantorville Restoration Association, Friends of Mayowood, Denmark Township Historical Society, Friends of Saint Rose, Preservation Lake City, County Historical Societies, Red Wing Downtown Main Street, Winona Main Street, Winona Area Chamber of Commerce, Faribault Main Street, and Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism PAM will work to provide its partners with staff support, administration, supervision, and additional preservation and planning expertise.
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Transportation Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,575
To grow the capacity of the organization to preserve and interpret history through a national training standard.
Ramsey
Recipient
Maplewood Area Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,999
To provide Maplewood Area Historical Society with professional continuing education through a national museum training program.
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
The
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
To hire an architect to write a Historic Structure Report to guide future restoration of the 1910 Sam S. Shubert Theatre and Shubert Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Dakota County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,200
To research, finalize, and design an exhibit on the beginnings of the computer industry in Minnesota.
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Martin County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$495,000
Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Lake
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Ramsey County Parks and Recreation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

With roughly 70,000 residents, Minnesota is home to the largest Hmong population in the United States. The top spinning game of Tuj Lub (pronounced - too loo) has its roots in Southeast Asia and holds cultural significance to the Hmong community. Formal Tuj Lub courts, constructed near a multi-shelter picnic area at Keller Regional Park, seek

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
U.S. Geological Survey
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$455,000
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Ramsey
Scott
Sibley
Wabasha
Washington
Recipient
VocalEssence
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,770

In 2016, VocalEssence WITNESS welcomes artist Melanie DeMore to help us explore the Underground Railroad in Minnesota—specifically how our state has been a place of sanctuary for refugees from the time of slavery through today. As part of this project, Melanie will help record absent narratives of those who have found sanctuary in Minnesota, and these stories will be shared in video and written form to explore the concept of sanctuary as part of the WITNESS School Program.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Mower County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To install an exhibit on the impact of World War II on Mower County residents.
Mower
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,578
MNHS partners with diverse organizations to create in-depth, meaningful learning experiences for young people that help them develop career and life skills. One example is the Mazinaakizige: American Indian Teen Photography Program.
Hennepin
Ramsey