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Recipient
Positive Image
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Strive Publishing
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

Strive engages with the community in creating Black Joy Literary Clubs that empower voices from the Black community to rise above stereotypes, demographic disparities, and negative media portrayals. We provide a platform for communal work in taking control of the Black narrative and in educating with truth and lived experience. Joy comes from sharing authentic stories and power lies within the voices of everyday Black people to break down harmful stereotypes and strengthen our community.

Anoka
Hennepin
Ramsey
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Alano Society of Minneapolis
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,725

To hire a qualified engineer to conduct a structural assessment of the 1887 Alano Society of Minneapolis Clubhouse (John Washburn House), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Hennepin
Recipient
The Basilica Landmark
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$149,980
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Orono
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$164,346
Fund Source

Stubbs Bay on Lake Minnetonka is impaired for excess nutrients due to phosphorus loading. This impairment results in nuisance algae blooms that limit the recreational use of this water body. As a part of its surface water management planning process, the City of Orono has identified projects to help improve the water quality of Stubbs Bay and Lake Minnetonka. The Stubbs Bay Ravine Stabilization project is one of the projects scheduled for completion in 2011.

Hennepin
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$387,000

This project seeks to provide data on insecticide contamination in the soil and the insect community across the state and the effect of sublethal insecticide exposure on insect reproduction.

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
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,980
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Wright
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$295,000

To support teachers in addressing new science standards , we propose a series of workshops across Minnesota facilitating conversation about sustainability and water conservation, specifically integrating western science and Indigenous perspectives.

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
Plymouth Christian Youth Center
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$243,750

The Capri's arts programs provide artists, performers, and audience members a meaningful way to connect with each other and with the arts - designed to support working artists, community-convening, and relationship building on the Northside and throughout the broader Twin Cities metro community. We provide countless opportunities to create and implement ideas, to be together, and to experience, learn about, and produce art.

Hennepin
Recipient
Central Minnesota Community Empowerment Organization (CMCEO)
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000

Central MN Community Empowerment Organization will revitalize the use of cultural and artistic expressions for the Somali youth of Minnesota to preserve and display their cultural heritage. CMCEO plans to promote patriotism and citizenship through cultural heritage where artists are trained to compose Somali creative arts and music. This will enable youth to learn their cultural heritage and creativity in an engaging environment.

Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Ramsey
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
Pine County Soil and Water Conservation DIstrict
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,326
Fund Source

The Pine County SWCD project will collect complete sets of water quality data for the Kettle River and some of its tributaries and also collect complete sets of water quality data for six area lakes (Oak, Dago, Rhine, Elbow, Rock, and Lake Eleven).

Aitkin
Carlton
Kanabec
Pine
Recipient
Pioneer-Sarah Creek Watershed Management Commission
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,825
Fund Source

The Pioneer-Sarah Creek Watershed Assessment project will complete a condition assessment for all currently unassessed or partially assessed (i.e., incomplete datasets) lakes and streams throughout the Pioneer-Sarah Creek (PSC) watershed (South Fork of Crow River; Hennepin County).

Hennepin
Recipient
Crow River Organization Of Water (CROW)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$191,441
Fund Source

This project will collect additional water quality and flow data on tributaries on the South Fork Crow River and Buffalo Creek. Further assessment of these reaches will provide a better understanding of what impacts these tributaries have on the impaired South Fork Crow River and Buffalo Creek.

Carver
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Renville
Sibley
Wright
Recipient
Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,162
Fund Source

This project will focus on collecting stream water quality data. Citizen volunteers and SWCD staff will complete water quality monitoring on two targeted stream sites in the watershed and eight additional sites including prospective MPCA biological assessment sites and DNR-Fisheries priority sites. This project will expand citizen participation into the assessment of streams in the watershed which are not included in the current TMDL study and expand data collection to a wider set of parameters.

Carlton
Pine
Recipient
American Swedish Institute
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,600

To hire a qualified consultants to write an interpretive plan for the American Swedish Institute.

Statewide
Hennepin
Recipient
Nine Mile Creek WD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,339
Fund Source

The objective of the project is to develop a targeted stormwater implementation and outreach program focused on non-profit partners. The Nine Mile Creek Watershed District is a 50 square mile fully-developed watershed with 15 major lakes and over twenty miles of creek system. Given that much development in this area occurred prior to the era of stormwater management regulations, runoff from many sites is untreated prior to discharge to downstream water bodies.

Hennepin
Recipient
Kellen Witschen
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,240

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Carlton
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Laura Sellner
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,240

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Aitkin
Cook
Carlton
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Mary K. Plaster
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,240

Technology/Equipment Grant

Hennepin
St. Louis
Recipient
Craig J. Blacklock
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,059

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Carlton
Pine
Hennepin
Ramsey
Chisago
Washington
Hennepin
Dakota
Recipient
Chris LeBlanc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$810

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Jennifer A. Murphy
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,192

Technology/Equipment Grant

Lake
Cook
Hennepin
Recipient
Carrie Schaefer
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$832

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Laura M. Sellner
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,568

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Jacob White
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Carolyn S. Olson
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$624
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Ramsey
Hennepin
Recipient
Jeffrey S. Brown
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,059
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Hennepin
Wright
Itasca
Clay
Dakota
Recipient
Sean M. Elmquist
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,059
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Cook
Ramsey
Hennepin
Recipient
Mary K. Plaster AKA Mary Plaster
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,059
Technology/Equipment Grant
Hennepin
St. Louis
Recipient
Neil Sherman
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$783
Technology/Equipment Grant
Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Nicholas Sunsdahl
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,059
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Beltrami
Hennepin
Recipient
Tim P. White
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$460
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Hennepin
Recipient
Kathleen H. Roberts
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Aitkin
Cook
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Brett Grandson
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,123
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Aitkin
Carlton
Pine
Hennepin
Chisago
Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
The Crunchy Bunch
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$582

Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist

St. Louis
Carlton
Ramsey
Hennepin
Winona
Recipient
Rachael Kilgour
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Lake
Hennepin
Isanti
Anoka
Sherburne
Ramsey
Chisago
Washington
Aitkin
Itasca
Crow Wing
Olmsted
Blue Earth
Recipient
Jeffrey Ruprecht
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Carlton
Stearns
Hennepin
Morrison
Recipient
Adam P. Swanson
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$297
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Cook
Carlton
Pine
Lake
Recipient
Matthew G. Mobley
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,071
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Ramsey
Hennepin
Cook
Recipient
Paula M. Gudmundson
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,260
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Hennepin
Ramsey
Anoka
Washington