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Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$379,000

Use mobile AI-assisted technologies to survey lake visitors. Assess perceptions of water quality and perceived threats. Combine survey data with water quality data and trend monitoring to inform lake management.

Benton
Big Stone
Cass
Chippewa
Crow Wing
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Nicollet
Otter Tail
Pope
Renville
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Wilkin
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Blue Earth
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Ramsey County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Fund Source

Volunteer Corps for Tamarack Nature Center & Discovery Hollow

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Fund Source

Volunteer Corps for Tamarack Nature Center & Discovery Hollow

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey County
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

The volunteer coordinator recruits, trains, and recognizes volunteers who help assist with operations and programs in a variety of settings. Some care for the animals, some the garden, some assist with programs, some do projects within the park.

Ramsey
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

The Education and Volunteer Coordinators were established for program development/implementation. They will increase efforts to connect, recruit, lead, and coordinate people to our regional parks while developing a deeper relationship with recreation staff, schools and other groups; supplies associated with this program. Program activities are restricted to those with direct benefits for the regional parks and trails.

Ramsey
Recipient
USGS
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$297,000

Endocrine disrupting contaminants are chemicals that may interfere with natural hormones in humans and wildlife and produce adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects. These chemicals occur in a variety of everyday products, including pharmaceuticals, plastics, detergents, flame retardants, cosmetics, and pesticides. As these chemicals get discharged into the environment, humans and wildlife are exposed. The U.S. Geological Survey and St.

Ramsey
Recipient
American Indian Family Center
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,267

The purpose of this project goes beyond just offering classroom style learning options. The purpose of the project is to provide teachings in the classroom, in the community, and in nature with fluent speakers and language learners alike. This proposal is starting the process of Language Revitalization by laying the groundwork for our program to grow and sustain itself beyond grant funding.

Ramsey
Recipient
Lower Phalen Creek Project
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,000

To hire a qualified consultant firm to write an exhibit schematic design plan for the Wakan Tipi Center in St. Paul.

Ramsey
Recipient
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,026
Ramsey
Recipient
Lower Phalen Creek Project
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Lower Phalen Creek Project (LPCP) seeks funds to implement pre-production of its permanent exhibits at Wakan Tipi Center, a Dakota cultural and environmental interpretive center honoring Wakan Tipi cave, a sacred Dakota place.

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,000
Fund Source

Ramsey County is the smallest, most densely populated county in the state of Minnesota consisting of primarily urbanized land use. Ramsey County's water resources provide the industrial base, drinking water, and recreational opportunities for over one-half million people on a daily basis. The major environmental problems that Ramsey County lakes and streams face can be traced to the effects that urbanized land use has on these natural resources.

Ramsey
Recipient
Public Art of Saint Paul
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$111,000

Public Art Saint Paul will propel new work forward on the 2nd Wakpa Triennial. The first Wakpa Triennial, 3 years in the making, presented in summer 2023 more than 110 artists in new work across artistic and humanities disciplines including sculpture, installation, video, poetry, music, painting, murals, paper-making, textiles, conversations, and other discussion and participatory programs.

Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$407,000

Minnesota Sea Grant seeks to create a science-policy fellowship program to train Minnesota's science-policy workforce and advance Minnesota's water resource policy, emulating Sea Grants successful federal-level fellowship program.

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
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$353,000

We propose robotics-based educational activities for middle-school youth on water quality in Minnesota. Youth will gain skills for measuring water quality and communicating results through group study and hands-on projects.

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
USGS North Dakota Water Science Center
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source

This is a joint project between the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), North Dakota, and Manitoba. The project is a basin-wide, up-to-date water quality trend analysis using the "QWTrend" program for approximately 40 bi-national river sites to review nutrients, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, sulfate and chloride from 1980 - 2015.

Clay
Kittson
Marshall
Norman
Polk
Wilkin
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,125,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$919,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$919,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$975,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$975,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$550,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,537,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
Fund Source

This program supports communities as they plan and implement projects that address emerging drinking water supply threats. It supports the exploration cost-effective regional and sub-regional solutions, leverages inter-jurisdictional coordination, and prevents overuse and degradation of groundwater resources.

Activities in this program provide metro communities with:

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$625,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$625,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$375,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$375,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Metropolitan Council was awarded $1,500,000 from Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment funds for a Water Efficiency Grant Program during the Minnesota Legislature's 2023 Session. The Metropolitan Council (Council) implemented a water efficiency grant program effective July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026. Grants were awarded on a competitive basis to municipalities that are served by a municipal water system. The Council provides 80% of the program cost; the municipality must provide the remaining 20%.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
City Of Saint Paul
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,000
Fund Source

to install a PV lighting system, PV panels, battery, and timing system for four St. Paul Grand Round Trail Kiosks

Ramsey
Recipient
City of Wayzata
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the preservation of Wayzata Section House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Anoka
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified consultant to conduct an audience and market analysis for White Bear Lake Area Historical Society.

Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,379

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

Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,000
Ramsey
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Weisman Art Museum)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,220
Statewide
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
St. Catherine University
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,202
Ramsey
Recipient
West Bank Athletic Club
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Soccer is important to Somali culture and the most popular sport in Somalia. The proposed activity is our 11th annual Thanksgiving tournament. In order to make the popular tournament a more holistic community event, we will incorporate Somali singers and poets into the soccer tournament program.

Blue Earth
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stearns
Recipient
West Bank Athletic Club
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

West Bank Athletic Club (WBAC) will expand its popular, ten-year running Somali youth soccer tournament into a comprehensive cultural heritage festival that includes Somali-specific sports, arts, and cultural activities. The 2021 WBAC Summer Festival will include a soccer tournament, live Somali music, interactive workshops, speakers, and a variety of arts and cultural activities led by youth.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Saint Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 5 to 7 interviews the many roles advocates play in helping victims to become successful survivors and helping to move society toward the elimination of abuse altogether.

Ramsey
Recipient
Wheel and Cog
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

Project, "It takes a Village", involves program development which would include community outreach development.

Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Clay
Dakota
Hennepin
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
McLeod
Meeker
Nicollet
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Waseca
Wright
Recipient
Wheel and Cog - Children's Museum of Hutchinson
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$115,000

Over the past five years, awareness of our organization has spread across the state. As a result, our attendance numbers have grown by 66%. We regularly hit max capacity, and the demand for outreach programs has gone up. Ex-S.T.R.E.A.M. expansion addresses three specific elements: 1) New space: Renting an additional 2,800 sq. ft of exhibit space to address spatial constraints.

Becker
Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Nicollet
Olmsted
Polk
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Washington
Becker
Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Nicollet
Olmsted
Polk
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Washington
Recipient
City of White Bear Lake
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500

To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the White Bear Lake Armory.

Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare HVAC design documents that will help preserve the White Bear Lake Armory.

Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,550

To hire qualified consultants to research and develop interpretive signage on the historic White Bear Town Hall.

Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,940
Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,300
Ramsey
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,952
To conduct a side and down imaging remote sensing survey of White Bear Lake and Lake Waconia to recognize submerged cultural resources.
Ramsey
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

The DNR is directed by Minnesota Law 2016, Chapter 172, Article 2, Section 12 to request proposals for a potential design-build project to augment White Bear Lake with water from East Vadnais Lake.

Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,625
To determine the nature of objects discovered through marine archaeology research in White Bear Lake.
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To hire a qualified historian to evaluate the 1885 White Bear Town Hall for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey