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City of Coon Rapids
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Fund Source

to install a solar powered LED crosswalk push button flasher to assist Wedgewood Trail users cross Round Lake Boulevard

Hennepin
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Weisman Art Museum)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,220
Statewide
Hennepin
Ramsey
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Yellow Medicine County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source

The Yellow Medicine One Watershed One Plan has identified Protecting and Preserving Groundwater Quality and Quantity as one of the three priorities addressed in the Plan. Seven priority sub-watersheds have been identified as priority areas, as well as two townships that have been identified by the Department of Agriculture to have vulnerable groundwater areas. Our goal is to provide 50% cost share to seal 34 abandoned wells that are located in these priority areas.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
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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
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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
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The Bakken Museum
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,980
Hennepin
Recipient
The Bakken Museum
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To fabricate and install an exhibit that provides access to its museum hosed in the 1929 William E. Goodfellow mansion
Hennepin
Recipient
Pioneer-Sarah Creek WMC
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405,000
Fund Source

Whaletail Lake (MDNR 27-018400) is located within the jurisdictional boundaries of Pioneer-Sarah Creek Watershed Management Commission (PSCWMC). The lake is considered having two distinct basins relative to the Minnesota water quality nutrient standards with the South basin (MDNR 27-018402) classified as a deep lake (156 acres; max depth 23 feet; & 66% littoral) and the North basin (MDNR 27-0180401) classified as a shallow lake (370 acres; max depth 10 feet; & 100% littoral).

Hennepin
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
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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
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$699,000

Our project aims to better understand white-tailed deer movement, habitat use, and disease dynamics at the suburban/agricultural interface to inform more efficient deer management and disease control.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Regents of the University of MN - Labor Education Svc
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

To assemble historical resources pertaining to the laborers who built the Minnesota State Capitol.

Hennepin
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Labor Education Service)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,724
To produce a one-hour documentary on the history of the laborers who constructed the Minnesota State Capitol, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, based on thorough and completed research.
Hennepin
Recipient
Wicoie
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000

Our mission is to provide high quality early childhood experiences in conjunction with Ojibwe and Dakota language immersion to urban families in the Twin Cities area.

Hennepin
Recipient
Wicoie
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Zoological Garden
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000
Big Stone
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
May Lee-Yang
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

May Lee-Yang will collaborate with local Hmong filmmakers to produce two 30-minute episodes of Hmong Organization, a comedy web series about a Hmong nonprofit and the people who work there. The completed episodes will be made available for free on Youtube.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minneapolis Park Board
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$530,500
Fund Source

$530,500 of the allocated $600,000 was used to enhance 150 acres of Wirth Park habitat. This project included habitat enhancement of woodlands and wetlands involving invasive species removal and planting of native species. This project benefits animal species including the pileated woodpecker and the threatened Blanding’s turtle. Primary outcomes include better quality plant communities, reduced fragmentation, and higher functioning wetlands.

Hennepin
Recipient
Bassett Creek Watershed Management Commission
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

Wirth Lake is located in Theodore Wirth Regional Park in the City of Golden Valley. The lake was listed as Impaired due to excessive phosphorus levels. In recent years water quality goals were met except during instances where seasonal overflows from Bassett Creek into Wirth Lake occurred.With one relatively simple project, the Bassett Creek Watershed Management Commission anticipates that the excess phosphorus problem will be resolved once and for all.

Hennepin
Recipient
VocalEssence
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,770

In 2016, VocalEssence WITNESS welcomes artist Melanie DeMore to help us explore the Underground Railroad in Minnesota—specifically how our state has been a place of sanctuary for refugees from the time of slavery through today. As part of this project, Melanie will help record absent narratives of those who have found sanctuary in Minnesota, and these stories will be shared in video and written form to explore the concept of sanctuary as part of the WITNESS School Program.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
International Wolf Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,000

Wolves are a hot topic in Minnesota, with the public sharply divided on management issues such as wolf hunting. The complexity of the topic lends itself to a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation that is not always helpful to resolving the polarized debate.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
The Woman's Club of Minneapolis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800

To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the Woman's Club of Minneapolis.

Hennepin
Recipient
American Red Cross Twin Cities Area Chapter
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,986
To research and produce a small traveling exhibit about significant contributions of women to the Red Cross in World War I
Hennepin
Recipient
Walker West Music Academy
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,166

This project is comprised of a series of interrelated jazz activities, classes, and workshops, including: 1) Women in Jazz Ensemble (post-secondary students, ages 16-25); 2) introduction to jazz workshops; 3) Jazz jam sessions and rehearsals; 4) school residencies; 5) anti-oppression training/consultation for professional development and to educate, stimulate discussion, and increase awareness of oppressive gender systems; 6) panel discussions; 7) scholarship opportunities.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Wood Krueger Initiatives, LLC
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,950

My proposed project is to create the Urban Native Plant Guide. This set of laminated cards will be a user friendly, portable guide to some of the native plants present in the Minneapolis-St. Paul community. The guide will be created through collaboration and insight from local Native elders and will include traditional uses of the plants, along with their names in Anishinaabe, Dakota, and Lakota where available.

Dakota
Hennepin
Washington
Recipient
Wicoie Nandagikendan
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

To revitalize Dakota and Ojibwe languages through early childhood immersion classes, family and community engagement.

Hennepin
Recipient
Kandiyohi County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,900

To hire qualified consultants to develop and install a traveling exhibit on World War I in Kandiyohi County.

Big Stone
Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Renville
Swift
Yellow Medicine
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American Red Cross Twin Cities Area Chapter
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Hundreds of Minnesota women served on the French Front during World War I as volunteers for organizations such as the Red Cross. Their stories are often overlooked by history. The grand niece of Alice O'Brien, daughter of William O'Brien, has researched and developed a manuscript that combines chapters about Alice's life before and after the war with her letters home from the front during her service in France. The story is a personalized telling of what women volunteers experienced as Canteeners for the Red Cross. A copy of the manuscript was given to the Minnesota Historical Society.

Hennepin
Recipient
Kandiyohi County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit plan for a traveling exhibit on World War I in Kandiyohi County.
Big Stone
Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Renville
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Hennepin Health Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To research and draft exhibit text concerning the history of departments and units of the Hennepin County Medical Center.
Hennepin
Recipient
Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000

Our Writing for Social Change project will have a lasting impact on MN's literary arts and multicultural education. We will equip African Americans to write their own stories as a manifestation of cultural resilience. Inspired by the African proverb until the Lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the Hunter,the community will become the lions (leaders) who shape their own destiny through the transformative power of storytelling and cultural preservation.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000

The Writing for Justice and Cultural Preservation project creates space for the Somali diaspora, other African communities, and African Americans to create, re-imagine, and build a more just and inclusive world through the transformative power of storytelling and book publishing.

Hennepin
Ramsey
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More Than A Single Story Inc
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,300

This project will provide a writer's cohort that will advance the work of twelve Black writers working in multiple genres. The goals are to 1) deepen individual vision and artistic development; 2) create a cohesive community of writers to support and encourage each other's work; 3) enrich communities of writers and readers with access to personal and cultural perspectives that will foster artistic growth, empathy, and collaboration.

Hennepin
Recipient
Yellow Medicine County Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer a new exhibit in the fair’s conservation building on 4-H and paint a mural related to the new exhibit. The Yellow Medicine County Fair has purchased display cases for their new 4-H exhibit. The exhibit consists of 4-H items from the past and present and the mural provides a history of county fairs.

Yellow Medicine
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RESPEC
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,996
Fund Source

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) requires the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to carry out the Total Maximum Daily Load Program (TMDL) in the state of Minnesota. Minnesota has an abundance of lakes and river reaches, many of which will require a TMDL study. In an effort to expedite the completion of TMDL projects, the MPCA has decided to construct watershed models. These models have the potential to support the simultaneous development of TMDL studies for multiple listings within a cataloging unit or 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code watershed.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Stevens
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Yellow Medicine River Watershed District
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,604
Fund Source

This project will monitor four lakes and 18 stream sites within the Yellow Medicine River Watershed to collect surface water ‏quality data to determine the health of the watershed's streams and lakes and if they are in need of restoration or protection ‏strategies. The sites will be monitored according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) Water Monitoring Standard Operating Procedures.

Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Yellow Medicine
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Yellow Medicine River WD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,611
Fund Source

The Yellow Medicine River Watershed District will contract with the Water Resource Center at the Minnesota State University - Mankato to complete a Geographic Information System (GIS) terrain analysis for the watershed using recently completed LIDAR data in southern Minnesota. Analysis will concentrate on the impaired reaches of the Yellow Medicine River Watershed and its tributaries. This inventory will utilize the State of Minnesota LiDAR elevation datasets to create many datasets through the analysis of this elevation data.

Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,000

YES! (Youth Eco Solutions) will empower Minnesota youth to reduce their carbon footprints by losing 5,000 pounds of CO2 per YES team each school year.

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
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,851
MNHS partners with diverse organizations to create in-depth, meaningful learning experiences for young people that help them develop career and life skills. The Mazinaakizige: American Indian Teen Photography Program welcomed six American Indian high school students who investigated historic and contemporary images of American Indians, learned digital photography, and created a gallery show to interpret the theme "Powerful." The opening was held at the Two Rivers Gallery on Dec. 9, 2016, with the gallery donating the space, announcement postcards and frames for the prints.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,578
MNHS partners with diverse organizations to create in-depth, meaningful learning experiences for young people that help them develop career and life skills. One example is the Mazinaakizige: American Indian Teen Photography Program.
Hennepin
Ramsey