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Recipient
Great River Chorale
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,360

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Becker
Benton
Dakota
Douglas
Hennepin
Houston
Kandiyohi
Morrison
Ramsey
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
Midwest Special Services, Inc AKA MSS
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Lakeville City Ballet AKA Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Brown
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Washington
Recipient
Kao K. Yang
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Creative Support for Individuals-Round 2

Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Once Were and Again We Are AKA Northern Monday Films
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Ranee A. Ramaswamy
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Creative Support for Individuals-Round 2

Dakota
Recipient
The Minnesota China Friendship Garden Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,741

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Kao K. Yang
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Creative Support for Individuals-Round 2

Anoka
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Lyon
Nobles
Ramsey
Recipient
Firehouse Performing Arts Center AKA The Hook and Ladder Theater
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
McLeod
Meeker
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Wright
Recipient
Away Runakuna
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1
Dakota
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Salsa Fiesta
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Mixed Precipitation
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Chisago
Cook
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Lake
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
St. Louis
Wabasha
Recipient
Praxis Photo Arts Center
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,661
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Deep Valley Book Festival
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,225
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Blue Earth
Brown
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Mower
Nicollet
Ramsey
Rice
St. Louis
Steele
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Tlalnepantla Arts AKA Festival de las Calaveras
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Carlton
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Recipient
Afoutayi Haitian Dance, Music and Arts Company
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
OMG Digital Media Solutions LLC
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,999
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
More Than a Single Story
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
RARE Productions
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,500
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Dakota
Hennepin
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Central Lakes College-Brainerd AKA Central Lakes Community Performing Arts Center
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Aitkin
Anoka
Beltrami
Benton
Cass
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
McLeod
Morrison
Murray
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wadena
Wright
Recipient
Native Skywatchers
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,996
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Dakota
Hennepin
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Wright
Recipient
APIA MN Film Collective
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Aitkin
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Minnesota State University-Mankato AKA Good Thunder Reading Series
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,750
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Clay
Dakota
Hennepin
Nicollet
Olmsted
Scott
Sibley
Steele
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Recipient
Kinship of Rivers
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Itasca
Lake of the Woods
Mille Lacs
Ramsey
St. Louis
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
MIXTAPE Dance MN
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,250
Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Hrvatski Dom Association
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,125

The projects planned for the grant funds focus on essential updates and enhancements to our historic building, ensuring that we can continue to provide a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space for all who visit. The proposed improvements include upgrading our HVAC system, kitchen, and security infrastructure; rebuilding the handicap ramp for improved accessibility; sourcing new patio furniture; and resealing the venue's dance floor. Each of these initiatives is designed to maintain the integrity of our facility while enhancing the experience of our diverse audience.

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
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Crow Wing County
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Recipient
Dakota County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,500
To acquire professional services to prepare an interpretive plan for public access to history and cultural heritage along 27 miles of the national Mississippi River Trail and the Mississippi River National River and Recreation Area
Dakota
Recipient
Friends of the Mississippi River
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,500

The Cultural River Stewards project gathers narratives and practices from different cultural communities' stewardship of the Mississippi River (Haha Wakpa). Friends of the Mississippi River (FMR) will partner with Language Attitude to work with community members, educators, and artists to bridge science and cultural stewardship. Through curriculum and stewardship events, we will gather and share community connections to the Mississippi River (Haha Wakpa) in Minnesota (Mni Sota Makoce).

Dakota
Ramsey
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,875

During the 2016 Legislative Session, the Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities, $75,000 the first year is for a grant to the city of St. Paul or Ramsey County to develop and install activity facilities in parks for Takraw courts that are reflective of the current demographics in Ramsey County. This grant is available if the recipient provides at least a 25 percent match for funding.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Elizabeth J. Turner
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Cultural Expression

Dakota
Recipient
Lower Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization (LMRWMO)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$189,999
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,995
Fund Source

This project will complete a comprehensive study, following a rational, step-wise process of data analysis, response modeling and comparison to the water quality standards, followed by impairment diagnosis, modeling of improvement and protection options, and development of a WRAP Report and Implementation Plan for Sunfish lake, Thompson lake, Pickerel lake, and Rogers lake.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization (Fiscal Agent: Dakota County)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$189,170
Fund Source

This project will consist of identifying the candidate causes of biological stress and to develop and implement a public and stakeholder participation process that encourages local ownership of water quality problems and solutions. The Stressor ID process will be done using existing data, identifying data gaps, gathering new data, developing load duration curves, and refinement of the candidate causes. The civic engagement work will include compiling and reviewing existing data on community capacity and assessing that information.

Dakota
Goodhue
Scott
Wabasha
Washington
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board-Winona State University
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,737
Fund Source

This project will build network and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection in Southeast Minnesota. The cohort will be administered through the Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board (SE MN WRB) which is an area wide Joint Powers Board (JPB) established to help improve and protect the water resources of the area through coordinating local water planning efforts. This JPB has successfully administered water quality grants in the past that have positively impacted the water resources of this region.

Blue Earth
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Scott
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Emmons & Olivier Resources
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,355
Fund Source

This project will complete a pollutant source identification and subwatershed information report and support the development of a Draft Restoration and Protection Plan (RAPP). It will also support the devlopment of a Implementation Plan that will identify target areas for BMP implementation for bacteria reductions.

Anoka
Benton
Carver
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Pope
Ramsey
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Washington
Wright
Recipient
RESPEC
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Fund Source

This project will complete spatial and temporal revisions , recalibration and validation of 7 watershed HSPF models. These fully functioning calibrated validated executable models will simulate hydrology, sediment (sand, silt, and clay), temperature, phosphorus, nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, and algae at the 12-digit HUC subbasin scale (or finer).

Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Steele
Waseca
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Emmons and Oliver Resources, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,012
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop a phosphorus TMDL for the six impaired lakes in the southwest portion of the Rice Creek Watershed District; Island Lake, Little Lake Johanna, Long Lake, East Moore Lake, Pike Lake and Lake Valentine.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
Coon Creek Watershed District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$252,200
Fund Source

This project will provide the MPCA, CCWD, and all other stakeholders the information and tools necessary to improve the water quality within Coon Creek Watershed District. The improvements will take place using targeted activities throughout the watershed to reduce the primary biological and chemical stressors. In turn, the reduction of these stressors will help to reduce overall loadings of sediment, turbidity, total phosphorus, and E. coli bacteria.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$139,450
Fund Source

The MPCA, in partnership with the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization, contracted with Wenck Associates, Inc., to develop the Stressor Identification (SID) Report; and develop the necessary models for the Vermillion River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) as part of Phase I. The final Vermillion River Watershed SID report discusses all of the analysis that was done in the watershed to identify the primary stressors causing the fish and macroinvertebrate impairments in the watershed.

Dakota
Scott
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area JPO
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
Fund Source

This project will continue the offering of low-interest loans to citizens, some of whom may not be able to acquire funding otherwise, for upgrading 50 septic systems to ensure compliance with state rules. Grant funds will be used to administer the low-interest loan program.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine