The Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program will be managed by the Department of Natural Resources to provide competitive matching grants of up to $400,000 to local, regional, state, and national non-profit organizations and government entities. In it's first 7 years of funding, the CPL program has provided 410 grants totaling $37 million to 133 different grantee organizations, positively affecting over 220,000 acres of habitat. Demand for CPL grants has continued to grow each year as new grantees hear about the program and successful grantees return.
Significant interest exists across Hennepin County for providing additional water and natural resources education, engagement, and technical assistance to residents that leads to implementation of conservation practices on more residential properties and across more communities. WMWA, Hennepin County, and 5 metro Watershed-Based Implementation Funding (WBIF) convening groups propose a pilot program funded in part by metro WBIF allocations.
A conservator was hired from the Midwest Art Conservation Center to conduct a comprehensive survey of the collections at the Hennepin History Museum. The report included an executive summary, observations, digital photo documentation and a prioritized list of recommendations. This information was used to formulate a written long-range conservation plan for the museum.
With the ML 2015 appropriation The Conservation Partners Legacy (CPL) Grant Program awarded 70 grants, 22 of these grants were the metropolitan area. Over 24,000 acres were enhanced, 2,500 acres were restored, and 386 acres protected through these 70 projects. Thirty-eight counties had CPL projects completed in them through 47 unique organizations. The average project for the ML 2015 grants was $96,000, with few exceptions most projects were completed on time and many were under budget.
The Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program will be managed by the Department of Natural Resources to provide competitive matching grants of up to $400,000 to local, regional, state, and national non-profit organizations and government entities.
As of 11/1/2023, the CPL program has provided over 970 grants totaling $115 million to over 250 different grantee organizations, improving or protecting over 577,000 acres of habitat. Demand for CPL grants has continued to grow each year as new applicants hear about the program and successful grantees return. In ML 2019 there were 99 grants awarded- 15 metro grants, 29 traditional grants, and 55 Expedited Conservation Partners grants. Through these 99 grants, over 34,000 acres were restored, enhanced, or protected. Over $10.6M was awarded to organizations for projects.
Theodore Wirth Regional Park, St. Anthony Parkway Regional Trail, Minnehaha Regional Park, construct loop trail around Wirth Lake, reconstruct wetland, parking, and update stormwater and buildings.
Cow Tipping Press will 1) hire a consultant with STAR Services to undergo the process of becoming a Department of Human Services (DHS) billable activity; 2) consult with the Mobius Group to bring accounting and HR practices onto more automated platforms; 3) consult with Corvus North on best practices for growing donations from major gifts and family foundations.
Common carp, introduced from eastern Europe over a century ago, are an invasive species in Minnesota that adversely affect water quality and aquatic communities, particularly in shallow lakes and wetlands. While solutions for suppressing common carp reproduction and abundance are emerging, controlling the movement of common carp, and therefore preventing reinfestation, has so far proved difficult.
The Cottageville Park Water Quality Protection and Stream Restoration Project was developed to meet the goals of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and the City of Hopkins, including; water resource management, channel stabilization, stream enhancement, riparian corridor improvements, open space creation, park development, and revitalization. The project achieves these goals through implementation of the following:
In May 2009, the Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities Center and four state councils-the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, the Council on Black Minnesotans, the Chicano Latino Affairs Council, and the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans-to collaboratively create new programs and events that celebrates and preserves the artistic, historical, and cultural heritages of the communities represented by each council.
Legacy funds will be used for stage rental, demonstrations and a pan drummer entertainer. The demonstrations will include wood turning, done by a foot controlled turner, done in a historical setting complete with costuming. Also included in the demonstration area will be a potter (from the region) who throws clay.
This year we propose to contract with a character named Jacques La Christian, who is portrayed by David Popilek, a French voyageur from the 1800's who will tell stories of the wilderness and provide exhibits of historic Minnesota.
Hennepin County Fair would like to use their Legacy grant money for the following items: Wood turner demonstration, pottery demonstration, Chuck Perry - musician/magician, and stage rental for musicians.
We propose to use the Legacy grant funds to hire Homeward Bound Theatre Company's "Alfy's World of Robotic Puppets." These robotic puppets stroll around the fairgrounds and talk to the children about many agriculture-related topics.
Murals have existed for millennia to engage community in the creation of its story. Today, we know that art creation heals the brain from intergenerational trauma. Creando Nuestro Futuro will be a series of murals created by Latinx children of Aurora Charter School to help them tell the story of pain that has resulted from being at the epicenter of racial injustice in our world and health inequities, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but also to help them heal from the wounds and discover a better day.
The funds made is possible to hire a qualified archivist to assess college archives in preparation for improved storage.
The Library staff can begin to both organize and set policies for the College Archives. The Archives will be well positioned in the future so staff can better respond when inquiries are made from within and from outside the College. With Collection policies in place, appropriate material can be added regularly going forward and policies on use of the Archives will prevent loss of valuable material.
Jena Holliday is launching Created to Be Arts - a Black/BIPOC led creative art program that offers workshops for youth and families. The program will provide classes in visual art, illustration, ans introduce students to other art mediums. Classes will explore work from historic and current BIPOC artists. This program's purpose is to cultivate a safe space for BIPOC youth to experience a collaborative, supportive home for creativity and to thrive through access to art resources and tools.
The purpose of this project is to plan & design Health Wellness & Cultural Arts activities in Black Indigenous Communities. I aim to curate Cultural Community Festivals with an emphasis on Health Education and Cultural Workshops. These workshops are designed to amplify awareness around community health and well-being by also shining a light on Indigenous Peoples' heritage through Cultural Arts.
This project will create additional arts programming to extend a pilot project with some new adjustments. Funding will 1) create additional workshop programming for in-person art class workshops; 2) help to expand into offering a set of new virtual workshops with accompanying art tool kits for students; 3) host a community style art activity table during local events and market.
An exhibit planner will be hired to lead a project team of subject matter experts, artists, and lay-people through planning, design, and implementation of a web-based exhibit that expands the current work of the Philando Castile Peace Garden, including contemporary knowledge of racial history, community trauma, and the role of art, peace, grief, and healing in the wake of police violence.
