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11613 Results for
Recipient
Teatro del Pueblo
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

To mark our 30th anniversary, Teatro del Pueblo will produce a new LatinX adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, titled Love in the Time of Hate. This show will celebrate Chicano identity and tackle contemporary issues of race and diversity in the LatinX community. Set at the southern border, we will present Shakespeare's timeless play through a uniquely LatinX perspective by blending Shakespearian verse with contemporary Chicano spoken word, Hip Hop Dance, and original music.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Barr Engineering Co
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,498
Fund Source

This project will revise a recently completed draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report for the Lower Minnesota River Watershed Project. The revision is to correct wasteload allocations for regulated stormwater entities.

Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

This project is designed to reduce sediment in the Wild River River based on a state approved plan (TMDL). The estimated water quality benefits completed by this project are 12,980 (120 truckloads) tons of soil saved per year, which will assist in reducing turbidity impairments downstream on the LWRR.

Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Recipient
Barr Engineering-Minneapolis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,994
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) computations for six impaired lakes and two impaired streams, and to provide TMDL development documentation for selected draft TMDL report sections.

Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Barr Engineering Co
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,039
Fund Source

This project addresses six lakes that have aquatic recreation impairments and one creek reach that has a bacteria impairment for E. coli. The project will evaluate the water quality impairments, complete pollutant source assessments, and establish loading capacities and allocations for the impairments.

Hennepin
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District/BWSR
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,888,000
Fund Source

This Corridor Habitat Restoration Project is a cooperative effort between the District (WRWD), MN Board of Soil
and Water Resources (MNBWSR), MN DNR, and Red River Watershed Management Board (RRWMB). This is a
voluntary program with the long-term goal to restore a natural corridor area along the Lower Reach of the Wild
Rice River. When completed, the project will restore 23 channelized river miles to 50 miles of natural stream
channel. The funding from this allocation was used to protect and restore approximately 151 acres of floodplain

Norman
Recipient
Wild Rivce WD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,345,000
Fund Source

Channelization of the Lower Wild Rice River in the early 1900s converted 50 miles of sinuous river channel to 23 miles of straight channel and lost several thousand acres of wetland and grassland habitat within the river corridor. Through an established and successful partnership between the Wild Rice Watershed District and the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources, this 4th request for funding from LSOHC will permanently protect 420 acres of private lands in easements.

Norman
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,975,000
Fund Source
This Corridor Habitat Restoration Project is a cooperative effort between the District (WRWD), MN Board of Soil and Water Resources (MNBWSR), MN DNR, and Red River Watershed Management Board (RRWMB). This is a voluntary program with the long-term goal to restore a natural corridor area along the Lower Reach of the Wild Rice River. When completed, the project will restore 23 channelized river miles to 50 miles of natural stream channel.
Norman
Recipient
Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,933

To document the history of the Lowry Hill East neighborhood ("The Wedge) through oral history interviews.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minors
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,000

This project will create a series of Hmong language booklets, photographically illustrated, comprehensively exploring the refugee experience, with narratives written by elementary school language students, based on their interviews with family elders and impressions of the photos, and edited by their teachers and dual language coaches.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Maggie Lorenz/Wakinyan Luta Oyanke Drum and Dance Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Guest speakers will provide cultural teachings pertaining to the drum, the songs, the dances, and powwow protocols.

Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minneapolis American Indian Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,159

The Minneapolis American Indian Center has developed a long-term plan to increase accessibility to and interest in Native languge instruction by increasing access to learning Dakota and Ojibwe languages and increase interest among Native youth and adult community memebers to learn their Native language.

Hennepin
Recipient
Katha Dance Theatre
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,936

Katha Dance Theatre (KDT) will produce a mainstage program of three world premiere dance concerts to share the art, culture, and history of India through the art of Kathak dance - the 2,000-year-old classical dance style of North India. These productions will include the world premiere of GANGA. The Myth and Reality, the world premiere of PANCHATANTRA, and the world premiere of PRAKRITIR PRATISODH Nature's Revenge. The first will premiere in St. Paul, the second in Minneapolis, and the third will play in another Twin Cities venue (TBD).

Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Faribault
Hennepin
Itasca
Olmsted
Ramsey
Scott
Stearns
Washington
Recipient
International Water Institute
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,867
Fund Source

This project will support water quality monitoring and data analysis in the Red River Basin. The monitoring will assist in providing water chemistry data needed to calculate annual pollutant loads for the Major Watershed Load Monitoring Program (MWLMP) and provide short term data sets of select parameters to other MPCA programs.

Beltrami
Clearwater
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
MN Zej Zog
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000

See application under "Documents"

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$460,000

Leveraging new statewide climate data, we will assess future change in the duration, frequency and magnitude of heavy precipitation and drought events and engage communities to prepare for these extremes.

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
American Aviation Heritage Foundation
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to produce a manuscript on the history of the Northwest Aeronautical Corporation.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,976

To design, produce, and install a historical marker for the 1889 Oakland Apartment & Hotel Building in Minneapolis.

Hennepin
Statewide
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,994
Fund Source

Phase 2 of the Marsh River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project includes: continued civic engagement; production of the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study, which allocates pollutant load reductions for impaired waters; and production of the WRAPS report, which identifies implementation strategies that will maintain or improve water quality in many lakes and streams throughout the watershed.

Clay
Norman
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,052
Fund Source

The goals of Phase I of the Marsh River Watershed (WRW) Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project are to: 1) gather or develop watershed data needed for the development of the WRAPS project; 2) establish project and sub-basin work groups, develop a social outcomes strategy, and develop a civic engagement evaluation strategy to guide the WRAPS project; and 3) begin to identify, create, and organize tools that can be used to determine potential stressors and priority management areas.

Clay
Norman
Recipient
Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$321,945
Fund Source

The Master Water Stewards (MWS) program will install pollution prevention projects on both residential and commercial properties and educate citizens in their neighborhoods to reduce urban runoff and nutrient loads. Community leaders who have been identified, educated and certified as Stewards, will lead projects.

Hennepin
Recipient
Maya Washington
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,500

This project will support a solo exhibition of new work at the American Indian Community Housing Organization's AICHO Galleries in Duluth, MN tentatively scheduled to run from June 7- August 30, 2024. The presentation will include community engagement activities in the form of an artist reception, and public facing cultural workshops, discussions, and related programming. The work presented is a meditation on the artist's creative practice before, during, and after the Global pandemic, and Global uprising of 2020.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Ramsey
Recipient
Matt Kania
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Ann Klefstad
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,350

McKnight Fellowship

Cook
Hennepin
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Ryuta Nakajima
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,350
McKnight Fellowship
St. Louis
Hennepin
Recipient
Rachel A. Nelson
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Lake
St. Louis
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Sheila J. Packa
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,331
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Hennepin
Recipient
Adam P. Swanson
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Ramsey
Cook
Hennepin
Recipient
Mitchell J. Bercier
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,080
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Carlton
St. Louis
Hennepin
Recipient
Brett Grandson
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,365
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Carlton
Pine
Hennepin
Recipient
Emily T. Moe
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,700
McKnight Fellowship
St. Louis
Nicollet
Hennepin
Cook
Blue Earth
Recipient
Daniel Neff
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,700
McKnight Fellowship
St. Louis
Cook
Hennepin
Recipient
Andrew A. Turpening
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,700
McKnight Fellowship
St. Louis
Hennepin
Recipient
Shingle Creek WMC
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$153,510
Fund Source
Hennepin
Recipient
Shingle Creek WMC
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000
Fund Source
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Project Outcome and Results
The Metro Conservation Corridors (MeCC) Partnership completed its fifth phase of work to accelerate protection and restoration of remaining high-quality natural lands in the greater Twin Cities metropolitan area. Work was accomplished by strategically coordinating and focusing conservation efforts within a connected network of critical lands that stretches from the area's urban core to its rural perimeter, including portions of 16 counties.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Recipient
Friends of the Mississippi River
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,000

Project Outcome and Results

Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Friends of the Minnesota Valley
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,000

Project Outcome and Results

Carver
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Great River Greening
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,000

Project Outcome and Results

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Isanti
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Washington
Wright
Recipient
MN DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,175,000

Project Outcome and Results

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin