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Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride Twin Cities AKA Twin Cities Pride
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,027
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
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Hot Summer Jazz Festival AKA Twin Cities Jazz Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Lowertown Blues Festival AKA Lowertown Blues Fest
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association AKA NEMAA
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,725
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
St. Louis
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Audubon Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$211,000

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UMD, NRRI
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$161,000

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Board of Water and Soil Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$368,000


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International Wolf Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193,000


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Minnesota Center for Book Arts
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
To document in 18 oral history interviews the history of Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
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Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To digitize a collection of state documents, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.
Statewide
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Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,290
To document in 8 oral history interviews the history of modern masters in Minnesota architecture.
Statewide
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

Plan and execute connection plans that build awareness of and motivation for participating in outdoor recreation at Minnesota state parks and trails.

Statewide
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,000
Fund Source

This project provides panoramic virtual tours of state parks, and panoramic plus video virtual tours of state trails and water trails. Each panoramic virtual tour is accompanied by an accessible/dial-up version highlighting the same scenes.

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Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,998
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Minnesota Public Radio (MPR)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,623,500

Minnesota Public Radio is the state's largest cultural organization, providing 96 percent of the population with free access to some of the best broadcast cultural programming in the world. Minnesota Public Radio is using a grant from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to implement projects around the following four goals:

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
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
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
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Minnesota Children's Museum
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$495,000

This funding is for arts, arts education, and arts access, and to preserve Minnesota's history and cultural heritage.

The Minnesota Children's Museum will develop a literacy focused exhibit to catalyze community engagement around early childhood learning and education.

Big Stone
Benton
Beltrami
Becker
Anoka
Aitkin
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
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
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Kids Voting St. Paul
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84,000

Kids Voting St. Paul will introduce youth-friendly technologies to enhance civic learning, expand its veterans civic education initiative, increase the number of students participating in Kids Voting elections, pilot a state-wide KidVention, expand and leverage partnerships, and convene a civic education provider summit.

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Learning Law and Democracy
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,300

Learning Law and Democracy Foundation will strengthen learning about the Minnesota constitution and government, create a civic self-assessment instrument for Minnesota schools, convene a civic education provider summit, enhance the teachingcivics.org website, expand professional development opportunities, and develop new lessons on Minnesota state and local government.

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YMCA Youth in Government

YMCA Youth in Government will convene and expand a YMCA Youth Conference on state issues and convene a civic education provider summit.

Statewide
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Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government Appropriation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,920
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,100

Minnesota Youth in Government (YIG) is a youth-led experience that engages middle and high school youth in democratic governing leadership. Students learn about government process and gain an understanding of local, state, national and international concerns. They research and debate, participate in model Assemblies, United Nations, Youth Conferences on National Affairs, retreats and trainings, and National Judicial Competition, and gain an appreciation of diverse viewpoints in respectful ways.

Benton
Carver
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Faribault
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Itasca
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Civic Youth
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$104,235
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$92,625

It is commonly understood that one of the most important purposes of educating the nation's citizens is to protect and strengthen democracy. Education in America must prepare all students for informed participation in civic and democratic life. Minnesota Civic Youth develops authentic, nonpartisan civic programs to support educators in their efforts to prepare the next generation of citizens and to help students learn about democracy, civic responsibility and the political process.

Statewide

Funds are appropriated for programs and purposes of the Minnesota Humanities Center. The humanities remind us of where we have been, bring knowledge and insights to current life, and help us envision where we are going.

Statewide

The primary goal of the Humanities Center’s Education Initiative is to increase student engagement and success; the foundation is strengthening the teacher-student relationship. Drawing upon the multiplicity of experiences and cultures represented in schools, educators gain insight into how to engage every student authentically and respectfully.

Statewide

The Minnesota Humanities Center is dedicated to bringing informative, enlightening, and engaging events to the community, providing all Minnesotans opportunities to build relationships, listen to stories, and learn from one-another.

Statewide

The Humanities Center used a portion of the Legacy funding for program planning and management. This support includes work such as exploratory and planning meetings for new initiatives and program management of all our Legacy work.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Drawing on the power of the humanities, Veterans’ Voices changes the narrative of Veterans and honors their contributions. It empowers Veterans to speak in their own voices through plays, discussions, literature, and the Veterans’ Voices Award. Veterans’ Voices will recognize the next great generation and illustrate that the Veteran’s voice is essential to the work of building our great democracy.

Statewide

We Are Water MN is a traveling exhibition and community engagement initiative that emerged from the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street project. Continued by MHC and several state partners, six greater Minnesota communities (Spicer, St. Peter, Red Wing, Sandstone, Lanesboro, and Detroit Lakes) hosted the exhibit in 2016-2017, and eight communities hosted the exhibit in 2018-2019 (Saint Paul, Bemidji, Crookston, Cloquet, Austin, Northfield, Grand Rapids, and Onamia).

Beltrami
Carlton
Dakota
Itasca
Mille Lacs
Mower
Polk
Ramsey
Rice
Statewide
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations is a traveling exhibition made in partnership with the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit explores relationships between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations and the U.S. government in this place we now call Minnesota. More than ten communities hosted the exhibit in the 2018-2019 year: Morton, Red Lake, Fergus Falls, Minneapolis, Mankato, Cass Lake, St. Cloud, White Bear Lake, St.

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Recipient
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,205
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,566
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,755
Fund Source

This project will develop a reasonable statewide estimate of recharge using the Soil-Water-Balance (SWB) Code (Westenbroek and others, 2010), validate the simulation results, and conduct a parameter sensitivity analysis to identify the most sensitive model parameters. For the purposes of this application of the SWB application, comparing the simulation results will be conducted on selected watershed basins in the state against previously established recharge estimates.

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BWSR with Pheasants Forever
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,090,000
Fund Source

RIM Buffers Phase II combined the resource benefits of the Outdoor Heritage Fund (LSOHC), Clean Water Fund (CWF), and bond funds. This program enrolled a total of 1,336.7 acres of enhanced wildlife and water quality buffers in partnership with private landowners on 29 easements. With 1337 acres (all sources of funding) protected and restored in this phase, we exceeded the original goal of 400 acres of OHF funded buffers and 400 acres of CWF funded buffers. Bonding dollars were used to fund the remaining 537 acres.

Statewide
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Square Lake Film and Music Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,750
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Cook
Grant
Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Washington
Recipient
Twin Cities Film Fest
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,750
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
St. Louis
Washington
Wright

Total: $43,017.75 We are Water MN is a program and partnership with the Humanities Center, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota section of the American Water Works Association, and six greater Minnesota communities.

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Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,999
The Minnesota Main Street program is a proven, comprehensive strategy that helps communities create new jobs and businesses while revitalizing buildings and preserving their historic downtowns. The program provides the tools, training, information and networking that communities need to revitalize their business districts. There are currently seven Minnesota Main Street designated communities: Faribault, New Ulm, Owatonna, Red Wing, Shakopee, Willmar and Winona. In the first two quarters of 2016, these cities gained 53 full-time jobs, 48 part-time jobs and 12 new businesses.
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Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$291,000
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) is a statewide, multi-institutional collaboration that supports discovery, education and personal enrichment through digitization of and access to the rich historical resources of the state's public and academic libraries, archives, museums and historical societies, while also preserving these resources for future generations. MDL partnered with: * 180+ organizations through Minnesota Reflections, a premier searchable, online collection of primary source materials of more than 51,000 photos, maps, journals, letters, works of art and more. * In association w
Statewide
Recipient
Hot Summer Jazz Festival AKA Twin Cities Jazz Festival
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Midtown Global Music Festival
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Chisago
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Rain Taxi, Inc. AKA Rain Taxi Review of Books
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Selby Ave JazzFest
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,249,000
Fund Source

RIM Buffers Phase 1 combined the resource benefits of the Outdoor Heritage Fund (LSOHC), Clean Water Fund (CWF), and bond funds. This program exceeded our acreage goal by 439 acres (37%), enrolling a total of 1,595.4 acres of enhanced wildlife and water quality buffers in partnership with private landowners on 46 easements.

Statewide