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Recipient
Mary K. Plaster
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40

Quick Start Grants

Dakota
Hennepin
St. Louis
Recipient
Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500

Quick Start Grants

Carlton
St. Louis
Cook
Lake
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Dakota
Recipient
Ann K. Price
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$605

Quick Start Grants

Washington
Dakota
Recipient
Mary K. Plaster AKA Mary Plaster
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$603
Quick Start Grants
Mower
St. Louis
Hennepin
Dakota
Rice
Steele
Freeborn
Dodge
Olmsted
Fillmore
Recipient
Loretta A. Worthing AKA Lory Worthing
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$293
Quick Start Opportunity Grants
Hennepin
Anoka
Ramsey
Carver
Scott
Washington
Dakota
Recipient
Bemidji Community Arts Council, Inc. AKA Watermark Art Center
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Quick Grant for Organizations
Beltrami
Clearwater
Hubbard
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Recipient
University of Minnesota Center for Changing Landscapes
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,490
Fund Source

The University of Minnesota will develop effective interview questions for community watershed assessments in the Rainy River basin and provide assistance in understanding the data collected through community interviews.

Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Lake of the Woods SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,000
Fund Source

This program will develop and implement stormwater management plans and shoreline restoration projects with community partners. Community partners for this program will include but are not limited to: non-profits, businesses, and faith organizations within the Rainy River-Baudette watershed.

Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Koochiching County SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,930
Fund Source

This project will provide an important framework for civic and citizen engagement and communication in the International Rainy River-Lake of the Woods Watershed, which will contribute to long-term public participation in surface water protection and restoration activities.

Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Recipient
Randolph Public Schools
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,886

To digitize school yearbooks (1939 to present), allowing for greater public access to this historic resource.

Dakota
Recipient
Lake of the Woods SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$143,880
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$43,283
Fund Source

The Rapid River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project will result in the development of the restoration and protection strategies for the watershed and engage the local stakeholders in the practices of watershed management. This project will also develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for impaired waters.

Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc.
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,150
Fund Source

This work order will fund the development and delivery of an approved final Total Maximum Daily Load Program (TMDL) study and Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report for the Rapid River Watershed.

Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Claudia Nascimento
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,086

This project is a documentary film about the intercultural experiences of immigrants living in Minnesota. It features footage of live performances at the Southern Theater, followed by talkbacks with cultural leaders and scholars; and the voices of audience and community members, recorded in post-performance conversations and interviews.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

We will characterize environmental drivers contributing to the decline of wild rice using lake sediment cores to reconstruct historical wild rice abundance in relation to lake and watershed stressors.

Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Hubbard
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
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
Brown
Cottonwood
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Blue Earth
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Department of Anthropology)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,506
To document through microarchaeological techniques human occupation of the Bremer Site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Dakota
Recipient
Red River Watershed Management Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$194,490
Fund Source

This project will provide land and water managers in the Red River Basin with data and online tools to prioritize actions on the landscape that achieve water quality objectives identified in local and state plans. This will help identify strategically important locations for implementing erosion control and water management practices. Standardized watershed-based data products will be integrated into a web-based planning tool which will be added to the Red River Basin Decision Information Network (RRBDIN) being developed as part of the Red River Watershed Feasibility Study.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Clay
Clearwater
Grant
Itasca
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Red River Watershed Management Board
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$346,000
Fund Source

This project will develop an effective transferable model to engage and educate watershed residents, stakeholders and others to better understand and protect watershed ecostystems through environmental monitoring, training, and formal and informal education programs in their local watershed. The project will build on the foundation of the existing Red River Basin River Watch program by strengthening three main activity areas: 1) curriculum integration and teacher training, 2) youth leadership and civic engagement, and 3) applied research collaboration and watershed science skills building.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Clay
Clearwater
Grant
Itasca
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Red River Watershed Management Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

MN Legislative Clean Water Fund funding to engage citizens in local watershed monitoring, work with regional partners to promote understanding and protection of watersheds, and organize and facilitate gathering of scientific data all for the benefit of water quality in the Red River Basin.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Clay
Clearwater
Grant
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
StoryArk
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,590

This project will fund a Youth Executive Board (YEB) to create an anthology of youth stories and experiences that describe their identities, stories, and experiences. This anthology will include a variety of interdisciplinary art such as personal essays, poems, visual art, etc., and be a reflective and engaging multimedia project that highlights, preserves, and celebrates the cultural heritage and identities of YEB members and empowers communities to build and preserve their identities.

Anoka
Dakota
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Monarch Joint Venture
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,000

This project uses remote sensing technology (UAVs) to evaluate pollinator habitat on energy and transportation lands across Minnesota.

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
Dakota City Heritage Village
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,313
Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$76,000
Fund Source

Lebanon Hills Regional Park and Spring Lake Park Reserve, replace three septic systems.

Dakota
Recipient
Caponi Art Park
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,775
Statewide
Dakota
Recipient
Minnesota Council of Churches
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Statewide
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Blue Earth
Recipient
Minnesota's Historic Northwest
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,664
To hire a qualified historian to research and develop materials for traveling exhibits.
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Pennington
Recipient
Susan A. Foss
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600

Resiliency Grant

St. Louis
Anoka
Isanti
Aitkin
Pine
Kanabec
Dakota
Washington
Ramsey
Hennepin
Carlton
Stearns
Sherburne
Crow Wing
Mille Lacs
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (American Indian Studies)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,675

To hire qualified professionals to produce materials on the Ojibwe language for public access.

Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Hubbard
Itasca
Marshall
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$145,000
Fund Source

Spring Lake Park Reserve, restore prairie at Schaar's Bluff Gathering Center campus including ecological improvement of 1,500 feet of Mississippi River bluff.

Dakota
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Barr Engineering
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Fund Source

This project will complete the final Implementation Plan, semi-annual and final reports and hold project meetings. The Implementation Plan will identify target areas and priorities for implementation strategies to improve water quality for Bluff Creek. This project will build the groundwork so Bluff Creek will meet water quality standards for aquatic life in the future.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
LaJune Thomas Lange International Leadership Institute
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000

On May 20,1863 in St Louis, Missouri the Union Army Special Agent of Contrabands sent 218 African Descendant persons to Ft Snelling on the Steamboat Davenport. The Steamboat Northerner towed a raft to Ft Snelling arriving on May 5, 1863. This project seeks to document the resettlement at Ft Snelling and how this group and Black Civil War Veterans changed the course of history in Minnesota by succeeding in amending the state Constitution to grant citizenship to African American men in 1869.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Dakota
Hennepin
Otter Tail
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$622,000

We propose identifying hot spots of groundwater chloride pollution of surface waters due to excessive road salt use, which is a long term source increasing chloride impairment of surface waters.

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
Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,920

To hire qualified professionals to produce a documentary on the history of Romanian immigration to Minnesota, 1945-1989.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 10 interviews the history of Romanian immigration to the Twin Cities
Dakota
Recipient
Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To create a documentary about the experiences of Romanian immigrants in Minnesota.
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Shanaya Dungey
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

Shanaya Dungey aka The Foolish Know It All will facilitate an artistic & cultural heritage preservation pilot project with five to ten Minnesota based descendants of enslaved African American ancestry to discover, collect, & document their family genealogy in a manner that is culturally relevant, preserves their family history, & honors their stories. The project will culminate with an exhibit capturing the process, participant thoughts throughout, & snippets of genealogy documents created.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
RESPEC
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,999
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate and validate a watershed model using Hydologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) for the Roseau River Watershed.

Beltrami
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Marshall
Roseau
Recipient
Rainy Lake Community Orchestra
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,344

Rural and Community Art Project Grant

Koochiching
Roseau
Lake of the Woods
Itasca
St. Louis
Stearns
Rice
Dakota
Recipient
Rainy Lake Community Orchestra
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,246

Rural and Community Art Project Grant

Koochiching
St. Louis
Itasca
Beltrami
Lake of the Woods
Hennepin
Ramsey
Stearns
Roseau
Rice
Becker
Recipient
Rainy Lake Community Orchestra
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,108

Rural and Community Art Project Grant

Koochiching
St. Louis
Benton
Stearns
Lake of the Woods
Dakota
Rice
Rice
Itasca