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Lanesboro Historical Preservation Association
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Fillmore
Recipient
Neighbors, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800
To hired a qualified consultant to research the history of Neighbors Inc.
Dakota
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$699,000

Our project aims to better understand white-tailed deer movement, habitat use, and disease dynamics at the suburban/agricultural interface to inform more efficient deer management and disease control.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,931,000
Fund Source

This program acquired priority lands and developed them as Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) - six parcels protected totaling over 600 acres, Scientific and Natural Areas (SNA) - one parcel of 900 acres (287 acres credited to this funding ), and Native Prairie Bank (NPB) easements - two parcels totaling almost 200 acres. These lands protect habitat and some provide public hunting, trapping and compatible outdoor uses.

Anoka
Big Stone
Carlton
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hubbard
Jackson
Wabasha
Wilkin
Recipient
City of Hastings
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$107,550

To hire qualified professionals to replace the roof on the William G. Le Duc House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Dakota
Recipient
Minnesota Genealogical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To provide appropriate storage and public access for genealogy materials.

Statewide
Dakota
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
International Wolf Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,000

Wolves are a hot topic in Minnesota, with the public sharply divided on management issues such as wolf hunting. The complexity of the topic lends itself to a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation that is not always helpful to resolving the polarized debate.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Walker West Music Academy
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,166

This project is comprised of a series of interrelated jazz activities, classes, and workshops, including: 1) Women in Jazz Ensemble (post-secondary students, ages 16-25); 2) introduction to jazz workshops; 3) Jazz jam sessions and rehearsals; 4) school residencies; 5) anti-oppression training/consultation for professional development and to educate, stimulate discussion, and increase awareness of oppressive gender systems; 6) panel discussions; 7) scholarship opportunities.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Wood Krueger Initiatives, LLC
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,950

My proposed project is to create the Urban Native Plant Guide. This set of laminated cards will be a user friendly, portable guide to some of the native plants present in the Minneapolis-St. Paul community. The guide will be created through collaboration and insight from local Native elders and will include traditional uses of the plants, along with their names in Anishinaabe, Dakota, and Lakota where available.

Dakota
Hennepin
Washington
Recipient
City of Northfield (Northfield Hospital and Clinics)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified professionals to produce a manuscript on the history of the Northfield City Hospital.

Dakota
Rice
Recipient
SELCO Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified professionals to write the second half of a manuscript on the history of Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO).

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000

Our Writing for Social Change project will have a lasting impact on MN's literary arts and multicultural education. We will equip African Americans to write their own stories as a manifestation of cultural resilience. Inspired by the African proverb until the Lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the Hunter,the community will become the lions (leaders) who shape their own destiny through the transformative power of storytelling and cultural preservation.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Dakota County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,900

To develop a new website that enables better public access to Dakota County history.

Dakota
Recipient
Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,000

YES! (Youth Eco Solutions) will empower Minnesota youth to reduce their carbon footprints by losing 5,000 pounds of CO2 per YES team each school year.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
York Township
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,858
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

Fillmore
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000

UMN Extension Center for Youth Development will partner with Winona and Rochester ALCs to engage 40 youth in year-long activities that connect, engage, and empower youth as environmental change-agents.

Blue Earth
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000

Adoption of renewable energy technologies and energy conservation practices can contribute in a variety of ways to the environmental and economic health of rural Minnesota communities through costs savings and emissions reductions. Engaging and coaching students as the leaders in the process of implementing such practices provides the added benefit of increasing knowledge, teaching about potential career paths, and developing leadership experience.

Aitkin
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Cass
Chippewa
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Waseca
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Oronoco
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$170,000

Completion of the Master Plan for the Zumbro River Regional Water Trail (ZRRWT). Roughly 150 miles of navigable waters that wind through a diverse landscape before joining the Mississippi River.

Blue Earth
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona