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Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$965,841
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$965,841

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) is a federated regional public library system in the Twin Cities Metro Area in central Minnesota.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$996,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$955,296

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,383,133
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,362,900

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,141,083
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,141,083

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$844,624
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$821,725

Minnesota’s twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.2 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) is a federated regional public library system in the Twin Cities Metro Area in central Minnesota.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$326,500
Fund Source

This project will provide condition monitoring and problem investigation monitoring at the following sites. Mississippi River: Tributaries include Bassett Creek, Cannon River, Crow River, and Minnehaha Creek. Minnesota River: Tributaries include Eagle Creek, Riley Creek, and Willow Creek. St. Croix River: Tributary includes Valley Creek.

Wright
Washington
Stearns
Sibley
Sherburne
Scott
Rice
Renville
Pine
Nicollet
Morrison
Mille Lacs
Meeker
McLeod
Le Sueur
Isanti
Hennepin
Dakota
Chisago
Carver
Benton
Anoka
Recipient
Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,344

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Goodhue
Recipient
Winona County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,327
Winona
Recipient
Freeborn County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,409

To create and install an interpretive marker on the history of Lodge Zare Zapadu No. 44, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Steele
Recipient
Minnesota Genealogical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,583

The Minnesota Genealogical Society (MGS) purchased three microfilm cabinets and two cases of microfilm storage boxes. The existing microfilm collection has been made more efficient, accessible and secure. There is also increased storage capacity for the future growth of the collection. The new cabinets have been placed on the MGS library floor.

Ramsey
Recipient
Zumbrota Area Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,290
To make its primary records available through a new microfilm reader/printer. The application offers outstanding match and provides solid evaluation criteria
Goodhue
Recipient
Hennepin County Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,005
To purchase microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Hennepin
Recipient
Dodge County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,094
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Dodge
Recipient
Hennepin County Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190
To add 2 rolls of microfilmed records from World War II to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Hennepin
Recipient
Brown Soil and water Conservation District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$87,030
Fund Source

This project is to create a contact strategy for community/landowner opportunities, obstacles, and opinions on land management and water quality that will result in the identification of restoration and protection strategies for the Minnesota River Mankato watershed in Redwood, Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood and LeSueur Counties.

Blue Earth
Brown
Le Sueur
Redwood
Recipient
Rice County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$103,875
Fund Source

The Cannon River Watershed includes approximately 941,000 acres of primarily agricultural landscape. Because of its large size, four subwatershed lobes are often referenced: Straight River Watershed, Upper Cannon River Watershed, Middle Cannon River Watershed, and the Lower Cannon River Watershed. Rice County is proposing utilizing LiDAR topographic data to determine areas of highest importance for Best Management Practice (BMP) Implementation for sediment within the Middle and Lower Cannon subwatersheds.

Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Recipient
Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$152,717
Fund Source

The purpose of this monitoring project is to maintain water quality data collection, build upon existing data for Phase II of the Intensive Watershed Monitoring approach, and develop a better understanding of what impacts the rivers located in central Minnesota specifically in the North Fork Crow Watershed.

Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Pope
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
Dodge SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,925
Fund Source

The Middle Fork Zumbro River Critical Source Area Restoration Clean Water Fund grant will focus on the implementation of six to eight of the 23 identified and ranked sediment reducing conservation practices identified in two targeted sub-watersheds of the Middle Fork Zumbro River. These six to eight projects will work towards achieving an estimated 49-96 tons of TSS to the impaired Middle Fork Zumbro River and are imperative to the health of the Middle Fork Zumbro River and Lake Zumbro.

Dodge
Recipient
Midway Chamber of Commerce Foundation
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,400
Ramsey
Recipient
Richfield Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$810
Hennepin
Recipient
Maplewood Area Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,565
To design, fabricate, and install an exhibit on post-World War II small dairy operations
Ramsey
Recipient
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,361
To hire professional conservators to assess historically significant collections and write a long range preservation plan.
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,694
To provide appropriate mold remediation for collections items.
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Seward Neighborhood Group
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,253
To design, produce, and install a historical marker in the Milwaukee Avenue Historic District of Minneapolis.
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Minneapolis (Community Planning & Economic Development)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,000
Hennepin
Recipient
Alano Society of Minneapolis
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,750
Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,403
Statewide
Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis American Indian Center
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,893

The Minneapolis American Indian Center has developed a long term plan to increase accessibility to and interest in Native language instruction through increased access to Dakota and Ojibwe language tables, monthly family nights, field trips and other cultural activities.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis American Indian Center
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,893

The Minneapolis American Indian Center has developed a long term plan to increase accessibility to and interest in Native language instruction through increased access to Dakota and Ojibwe language tables, monthly family nights, field trips and other cultural activities.

Hennepin
Recipient
Grassroots Culture
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,645
To conduct 12 oral history interviews with residents of Minneapolis' North Side on the effects of the 2011 tornado.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Minneapolis
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
To restore the historic steel and limestone fence that lines the cemetery on Cedar Avenue and Lake Street.
Hennepin
Recipient
Emerge Community Development
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,000
To replace the roof and install insulation for the Minneapolis Public Library, North Branch, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and now used as a career and technology center.
Hennepin
Recipient
Hennepin County Library
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,690

To provide better organization of the library's archival collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis Nature Preschool

1. Offer as many children as possible the chance to be immersed in the Dakota Language. This includes prioritizing children of Dakota heritage, children with Dakota language connections, and children with other tribal affiliations. Ensure families feels safe, welcome, and included in the language learning process and in the shaping of future programming. 2. Build a network of Dakota Language educators through collaborative teaching, including language experts, elders, and early childhood teachers. 3.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Install drain tile and regrade window wells slopes to stabilize the Grain Belt Office building, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Minneapolis
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
To develop a Warehouse District Heritage Street Plan to provide guidance on adapative reuse of the district's historic industrial infrastructure.
Hennepin
Recipient
Emerge Community Development
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000

To rehabilitate the North Branch Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as a career and technology center.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
To abate water infiltration in the lower levels of the Grain Belt Office Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin