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Jackson County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,006
To microfilm newspapers from Jackson, Pipestone, and Ramsey Counties to broaden public accessibility.
Jackson
Pipestone
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Minnesota Transportation Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a consultant to write a Historic Structure Report for the Jackson Street Roundhouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Transportation Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To complete an interpretive plan for the museum in order to make more effective use of limited resources to better serve the public.
Statewide
Ramsey
Recipient
Saint Paul Historic Preservation Commission
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The St. Paul Historic Preservation Commission hired a qualified consultant to complete the local Historic Preservation Site Designation form for the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company Historic District. After commission review and a public hearing the proposed historic district was recommended for approval to the St. Paul City Council. The City Council adopted the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company Historic District as a Heritage Preservation Site along with the Preservation Program. The ordinance was adopted in July, 2011.

Ramsey
Recipient
James J. Hill Reference Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,300
To restore and abate water infiltration of the marble entrance stairs on the James J. Hill Reference Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
James J. Hill Reference Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,000
To repair and replace windows at the James J. Hill Reference Library, listed on the National Register.
Ramsey
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Regents of the University of Minnesota (Bell Museum of Natural History)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,760

To compile information on publicly-owned Jacques art and allow greater public access to these historic resources.

Aitkin
Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Sholom Community Alliance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 6 intergenerational interviews the history of how Jewish migration to Minnesota is transmitted to succeeding generations.

Ramsey
Recipient
Jewish Community Action
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900

To hire qualified professionals to produce a manuscript on the history of Jewish Community Action.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Friends of Highland Arts
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,190
Ramsey
Recipient
Ka Joog
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$43,380

Ka Joog and Afro American Development Association (AADA) will partner to create a platform for Somali American youth to learn traditional Somali artistic mediums and present their learning through public presentations that will ignite community conversations. Art clubs and public forums will be implemented in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Clay counties and will promote inter-generational dialogue on taboo topics within the Somali American and cross-cultural acceptance with non-Somali audiences.

Anoka
Carver
Clay
Dakota
Faribault
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Polk
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Steele
Washington
Recipient
Kairos Alive!
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,933

The Kairos Alive! Cultural Wisdom Immersion and Sharing Project collaborates with Centro Tyrone Guzman, Augustana Open Circle, Walker West Music Academy and outstate Developmental Achievement Centers to explore and exchange joyful cultural meaning through music, dance, song and story via 2-way Zoom webcast. Project explores cultural heritage and identity expression, and how it relates to the universality of human experience, in an environment of creative safety and intercultural exchange.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Nobles
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stearns
Swift
Wabasha
Wadena
Winona
Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Clay
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lake
Mille Lacs
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Polk
Ramsey
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wabasha
Watonwan
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Kairos Alive!
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,932

This project collaborates with 1) Minneapolis Hawthorne Neighborhood Council (multi-cultural/intergenerational); 2) Minnesota Independence College and Community (MICC), Richfield (neuro-divergent young adults); 3) an established network of 20+ senior centers and organizations serving people with developmental disabilities statewide (multi-cultural and intergenerational), such as Centro Tyrone Guzman (Latinx), Ecumen Prairie Lodge, Brooklyn Park, Wabasha County Developmental Achievement Center, Wabasha, and Adult Day Services, Bemidji; 4) community collaborations in Bemidji and New Ulm servi

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Cottonwood
Hennepin
Koochiching
Lake
Mille Lacs
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stevens
Swift
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Polish American Medical Society of Minnesota
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Winona
Recipient
The Urban Village
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

In order to preserve Karen and Karenni culture and identity in Minnesota, The Urban Village proposes the creation of a collaborative learning program where participants will have an opportunity to connect and explore their identity and heritage. Through this program, our youth will be empowered to drive the development of the first ever Karen and Karenni history archive. The learnings and content birthed from this program will then be archived and organized for all Minnesotans to access.

Statewide
Ramsey
Recipient
Walker West Music Academy
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$145,000

Walker West Music Academy's Amazing Grace Chorus for elders is a unique receptacle of Black cultural heritage/a wealth of lived MN Black experience. This project will capture that rich experience/the memories of those aging keepers of an important part of Black culture through the vehicle of gospel music & a series of events/activities & will culminate in a 45-min. documentary. This will ensure that this interconnected culture & history are preserved & passed on to the next generation.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Ramsey
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$480,000

The original courts were constructed in 2016 at Keller Regional Park with a combination of funds from Ramsey , the City of Maplewood, and the Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Funding. To inform the design, Parks staff gathered feedback from local Tuj Lub club members as well as did a site visit to Westminster, Colorado where the only other formally designed courts are located in the country. Since completion, play has been increasing and the court materials are deteriorating. In addition, court design and technology has been advancing.

Ramsey
Recipient
Pine County
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,412,047
Fund Source

After completing the One Watershed One Plan planning process for the Kettle & Upper St. Croix Watershed, and having the Kettle & Upper St. Croix Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan (KUSC CWMP) approved by BWSR, the local partners of the watershed will use the implementation funds to complete the actions in the plan. These actions will help complete the 10-year goals that are laid out in the plan. This in turn will help protect and restore water and soil resources in the Kettle & Upper St. Croix watersheds.

Aitkin
Anoka
Carlton
Cass
Kanabec
Koochiching
Pine
Ramsey
Recipient
Center for Policy Design
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Statewide
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Legal Rights Center Incorporated
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,000

Legal rights Center, Inc. will provide a critical missing component to civics education for youth in our communities, ensuring they have the information and practical skills necessary to fully utilize their constitutionally protected rights. This project builds upon a foundation of existing Know Your Rights curricula to 1) develop curriculum around new topics; 2) develop zines, 1-page explainers, videos, and other new assets to be accessed digitally as well as circulated throughout schools and community spaces; 3) host a Know Your Rights camp and convening for Twin Cities youth.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Capitol Region Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
Fund Source

This project will compile and review previously conducted studies and will prioritize best management practices (BMPs) based on a cost-benefit analysis of their pollutant load reductions and life cycle costs. It will also support the design and construction of BMPs, such as rain gardens and infiltration practices, within the Villa Park subwatershed of the Lake McCarrons watershed.

Ramsey
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,999
To research 16 prioritized anomalous readings on two previously undocumented maritime wrecks in Lake Minnetonka
Ramsey
Recipient
LimnoTech
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,815
Fund Source

The consultant LimnoTech will support response to Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) comments the peer review process, United States Environmental Protection Agency and public notice. They will then revise the TMDL document as needed and attend internal and external project meetings.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Dodge
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Steele
Wabasha
Washington
Wright
Recipient
LimnoTech
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,920
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to finalize the Lake Pepin Watershed phosphorus total maximum daily load (TMDL) report by using the existing information and documentation prepared under previous contracts to prepare one TMDL report that addresses the impairments on the mainstem of the Mississippi River. Information developed to date for draft TMDLs on the Minnesota River mainstem will be documented for later use by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Wabasha
Washington
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
LimnoTech
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,985
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to support the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) in responding to public comments on the Lake Pepin Watershed Phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), which were prepared by LimnoTech under previous phases of the project.

Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Wabasha
Washington
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Rice Creek Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,200
Fund Source

This project will repair and upgrade the water control structure and provide water quality enhancement measures on Oasis Pond in Roseville, Minnesota. This project will also protect the quality of downstream receiving waters; specifically Lake Johanna, by reducing phosphorus pollutant loads.

Anoka
Ramsey
Recipient
Limnotech
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,980
Fund Source

This project will develop an Implementation Plan for restoring Lake St. Croix and impaired waters within the contributing watershed, and protect waters currently attaining water quality standards.

Anoka
Chisago
Isanti
Pine
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Ramsey Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,420
Fund Source

Lambert Creek is wholly within the Vadnais Lake Area Water Management Organization (VLAWMO) and is located in northeastern Ramsey County. Lambert Creek is surrounded by mainly residential land use and flows through three communities before discharging into East Vadnais Lake, which is the final impoundment reservoir containing the water supply that the Saint Paul Regional Water Services (SPRWS) treats and then distributes to thirteen municipalities including the city of St. Paul.

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey Conservation District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,766
Fund Source

Past and current monitoring data has shown Ramsey County's Lambert Creek has high levels of total phosphorus (TP), anywhere from 0.14 mg/L to 0.30 mg/L, which is above the proposed State standard of 0.10 mg/L for streams in the Central Region.

Ramsey
Recipient
826 Msp
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85,969

826 MSP will expand school partnerships in two keyways: 1) add a new 6-8 week in-school workshop program where 826 MSP staff and volunteers facilitate antiracist creative writing units in elementary and middle-school classrooms; 2) expand community engagement work through the addition of Whole-Family Workshops, in partnership with local schools and community organizations.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Lao Culture Dance and Traditional Fashion Show
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

Lao Culture Dance & Traditional Fashion Show will be implementing training youth for new leadership program. We are focusing on teaching students by passing on the skills & knowledge of traditional Performing art to a young generations to continue the tradition. We will make sure that the students that completed the program will be able to teach & passing on & continue the work to keep our tradition & rich Lao heritage and Culture. The youth leader will be great asset for our Communities.

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Anoka
Chisago
Dakota
Faribault
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Afton Historical Society Press
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified professionals to publish a book on the history of Latin Art in Minnesota.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Statewide
Recipient
St. Catherine University
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,250

This project is a fall 2024 exhibition of art created by self-identifying Latina women and non-binary, Latinx Minnesota-based artists with ancestral roots in Latin America. The exhibition is being co-curated by local visual artist, community muralist and educator, Zamara Cyan, and William Gustavo Franklin, an independent art curator, educator and author of the recent volume, Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What's Next (Afton Press, 2023).

Blue Earth
Dakota
Hennepin
Houston
Olmsted
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Winona
Recipient
Capitol Region WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Capitol Region Watershed District and the City of Lauderdale seek to improve water quality and flood control functions of Seminary Pond in Lauderdale. The project partners propose improvements to the pond including: 1) expansion of the pond?s storage area and 2) construction of an iron-enhanced sand filter. These improvements were identified as being the most cost-effective and will remove an estimated additional 2 tons of sediment and 9 pounds of phosphorus annually.

Ramsey
Recipient
Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000

Operational Budget Supplement for the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

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
League
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To document in up to 10 oral history interviews the history of the League of Women Voters St. Paul.
Ramsey
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,599
Lincoln
Ramsey
Recipient
Alexandria Area Arts Association, Inc
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,590

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Douglas
Stevens
Pope
Otter Tail
Becker
Wadena
Todd
Stearns
Traverse
Clay
Hennepin
Anoka
Ramsey
Dakota
Scott
Carver
Recipient
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts, Inc. AKA A Center for the Arts
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Becker
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Pope
Stevens
Stearns
Hennepin
Anoka
Ramsey
Wilkin