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Recipient
NEO MURALISMOS DE MEXICO
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Goodhue
Hennepin
Mower
Nobles
Ramsey
Rice
St. Louis
Recipient
James C. Sanford AKA JC Sanford
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Creative Support for Individuals-Round 2

Anoka
Carver
Cook
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Rice
Stearns
St. Louis
Recipient
Kate M. McGrogan AKA Kate Langlais
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Creative Support for Individuals-Round 2

Rice
Recipient
Mary C. Bruno
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000

Creative Support for Individuals-Round 2

Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
North House Folk School
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Anoka
Carlton
Carver
Cook
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Hubbard
Lake
Nicollet
Ramsey
Rice
Stearns
Washington
Recipient
Commonweal Theatre Company
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
McLeod
Mower
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Stearns
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Nicolle D. Erickson AKA Nikki Bettcher Erickson
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,200

Creative Support for Individuals-Round 1

Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Swift
Recipient
Full Circle Theater Company
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Anoka
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Washington
Recipient
VocalEssence
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Chisago
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Freeborn
Goodhue
Isanti
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lincoln
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Rock
Sherburne
Stearns
Steele
Steele
Recipient
International Friendship Through the Performing Arts
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Recipient
Cantus
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Itasca
Lac qui Parle
McLeod
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Stearns
St. Louis
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Clean River Partners
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Goodhue
Rice
Steele
Recipient
Lakeville City Ballet AKA Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Brown
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Washington
Recipient
Andrew Y. Young
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,894
Creative Support for Individuals-Round 2
Hennepin
Swift
Recipient
Bach Roots Festival
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,089

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
Recipient
Mixed Precipitation
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Chisago
Cook
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Lake
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
St. Louis
Wabasha
Recipient
Berne Summer Concert Series AKA Berne Wood Fired Pizza and Summer Concert Series
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,400
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1
Blue Earth
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Deep Valley Book Festival
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,225
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Blue Earth
Brown
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Mower
Nicollet
Ramsey
Rice
St. Louis
Steele
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Native Skywatchers
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,996
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Dakota
Hennepin
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Wright
Recipient
Hrvatski Dom Association
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,125

The projects planned for the grant funds focus on essential updates and enhancements to our historic building, ensuring that we can continue to provide a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space for all who visit. The proposed improvements include upgrading our HVAC system, kitchen, and security infrastructure; rebuilding the handicap ramp for improved accessibility; sourcing new patio furniture; and resealing the venue's dance floor. Each of these initiatives is designed to maintain the integrity of our facility while enhancing the experience of our diverse audience.

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
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
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
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,000

The Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota planned for the cultural alignment of the permanent Children's Museum's art curation, signage, and interactive experiences. The primary focus of this cultural content related to southern Minnesota including Dakota art, culture, and heritage and complemented the Exhibit Development and Fabrication Legacy grant goals.

Blue Earth
Brown
Nicollet
Olmsted
Rice
Sibley
Recipient
Hong G. Dice AKA Gao Hong
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Cultural Expression

Rice
Recipient
Healthy Community Initiative
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,774

This project is a new initiative that will celebrate and teach art, culture, and heritage. It will be operated by PRIMEtime, an out-of-school time network that provides after school and summer activities at no cost for more than 2,500 youth each year. Implementation of CULTUREtime will greatly expand arts & music impact while also launching a brand-new series of cultural activities that lift up the heritages of Rice County's Somali, Latinx, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Rice
Recipient
Minnesota River Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$91,691
Fund Source

This project will support a civic engagement cohort that will be offered in southwest Minnesota to foster partnering and build capacity of local government, organizations, and residents for effective civic engagement in water protection and restoration. This project will also build networks and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection. The cohort will be administered through the Minnesota River Board (MRB), established in 1995 with a goal of focusing water management efforts on the local level.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Waseca
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Tetra Tech, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,999
Fund Source

This project will develop and execute three point source related scenarios for the Chippewa River watershed using an existing HSPF watershed model. This project will also support the review of the HSPF Modeling Guidance Document.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board-Winona State University
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,737
Fund Source

This project will build network and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection in Southeast Minnesota. The cohort will be administered through the Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board (SE MN WRB) which is an area wide Joint Powers Board (JPB) established to help improve and protect the water resources of the area through coordinating local water planning efforts. This JPB has successfully administered water quality grants in the past that have positively impacted the water resources of this region.

Blue Earth
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Scott
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
RESPEC
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Fund Source

This project will complete spatial and temporal revisions , recalibration and validation of 7 watershed HSPF models. These fully functioning calibrated validated executable models will simulate hydrology, sediment (sand, silt, and clay), temperature, phosphorus, nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, and algae at the 12-digit HUC subbasin scale (or finer).

Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Steele
Waseca
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
LimnoTech
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$121,916
Fund Source

This project will construct, calibrate, and validate an HSPF watershed model for the Zumbro River watershed. The consultant will produce HSPF watershed models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs). The consultant will clearly demonstrate that the models generate predicted output timeseries for hydrology, sediment, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen that are consistent with available sets of observed data.

Dodge
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Recipient
Zumbro Watershed Partnership, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,750
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,218
Fund Source

This project will complete an implementation plan, as required by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, for the Zumbro River turbidity TMDL project. It will also revise the Zumbro River Watershed Management Plan (completed 2007) to ensure it continues to reflect local needs, incorporates new information, and develops more effective linkages with related local, state and federal government programs.

Dodge
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area JPO
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
Fund Source

This project will continue the offering of low-interest loans to citizens, some of whom may not be able to acquire funding otherwise, for upgrading 50 septic systems to ensure compliance with state rules. Grant funds will be used to administer the low-interest loan program.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Pomme de Terre River Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$216,600
Fund Source

This project will allow for outreach programs to engage interested citizens in protecting 200 acres of riparian buffer in the headwaters of the watershed, accounting for 1860 tons of sediment prevented from reaching surface waters each year the practices remain in place. The desired outcome would include 30 or more participants in the program, and to develop a more extensive volunteer base.

Big Stone
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Upper MN Valley Regional Development Commission
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,365

The grant was to research content, write, design and fabricate 10 interpretive panels at six sites along the MN River Valley to better tell the stories of the MN River Valley, specifically of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862. This is Part 1 of an overall interpretation of sites related to the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862.

Swift
Recipient
U of MN
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$520,000
Becker
Big Stone
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Dodge
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Rock
Roseau
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Wadena
Watonwan
Wilkin
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DeGraff, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Construct sewer collection and treatment system for unsewered area

Swift
Recipient
Otter Tail County
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$934,000

Construction of a 6.6 mile bituminous trail along CSAH 35 connecting the cities of Dent and Vergas to the Heart of the Lakes Regional Trail and Maplewood State Park

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
Recipient
Independent School District #659
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,015

To hire qualified professionals to publish a book on the history of Northfield Public Schools.

Dakota
Rice
Recipient
Carleton College
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,700
Statewide
Rice
Recipient
City of Northfield (Northfield Hospital and Clinics)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,500
Statewide
Dakota
Rice
Scott
Goodhue
Recipient
Northfield Public Library
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,650
To hire qualified professionals to produce a manuscript on the history of the Northfield Public Library.
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$621,000

This project determines ambient background per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) levels in urban and non-urban soils. This information will help Minnesota develop management strategies for PFAS contaminated soils.

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