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3856 Results for
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association AKA SEMBA
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Small Towns/Rural Areas
Blue Earth
Dakota
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Brave Community Theatre
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,860

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Kasson-Mantorville School District 204
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Small Towns/Rural Areas Grant

Blue Earth
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Winona
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to provide a new shared position in southeast Minnesota which will accelerate the adoption of soil health practices by leveraging the existing efforts of the National Resources Conservation Service and other organizations.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
U of MN - WCROC
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$475,000
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Hubbard
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
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
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Somali Community Resettlement Services
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

This project will connect Somali youth to their rich cultural heritage through arts and language. The Somali Youth Cultural Empowerment project will ensure youth learn their native Somali language and culture through classes taught by Somali teachers and will participate in the cultural tradition of Danta Dance. A dance group will perform at cultural events, with music performed live from previous members of the Somali supergroup, Waaberi, and thus, share Somali art culture with Minnesotans.

Hennepin
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Recipient
Somali Museum of Minnesota
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

The Somali Museum of Minnesota will curate and present two new monthly series of public programs designed to amplify, celebrate, and preserve Somali culture. The first series will be gallery-based and draw from the museum’s collection to offer Somali language, cultural and history instruction targeted to Somali families and school age youth. The second series, designed for a broader audience, will present artist talks and demonstrations, dance performances, exhibitions, and poetry readings.

Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Statewide
Stearns
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Somali Community Resettlement Services
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,000

The Somali Language and Culture Classes Project will honor and preserve Somali culture by first, connecting Somali youth to their rich cultural heritage through arts and language classes and second, by providing a class for others in the mainstream Minnesota community to learn about Somali language and culture. This project will pilot teaching Somali language and culture through utilizing taped sessions with an in-person bi-lingual facilitator in order to allow for future sustainability.

Hennepin
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Statewide
Recipient
Somali Community Resettlement Services
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

The goal is to develop a “Basic Somali Language and Culture Class” curriculum. This course will be a tailored 20 – 30-hour training for people in the business community as well as Somali youth. Each class session with have an element of language and an element of culture.

Rice
Steele
Recipient
City of Faribault
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,330
Fund Source

Update PCSI inventory

Rice
Recipient
Scott County Fair
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Construct a new well to meet drinking water capacity during the fair and other events.

Scott
Recipient
City of Prior Lake
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,770
Fund Source

PCSI update

Scott
Recipient
City of Elko New Market
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,538
Fund Source

Seal well 211953 in accordance to the City's Wellhead Protection Plan.

Scott
Recipient
City of Faribault
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,125
Fund Source

Video inspections to wells #1, #3, and #5.

Rice
Recipient
City of Nerstrand
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Purchase and install back-up generator.

Rice
Recipient
City of Prior Lake
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,089
Fund Source
Reseal well # 1
Scott
Recipient
City of Lonsdale
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Seal well #3.

Rice
Recipient
Territory Community HOA Water System
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Seal two wells A-10; 731125 and B-1; 796420

Scott
Recipient
City of Northfield
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,320
Fund Source

Update drawdown equipment; Inspect private wells within the DWSMA

Rice
Recipient
Cedar Lake Electric
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,748
Fund Source

Connect to City of Faribault water system; Abandon existing well

Rice
Recipient
City of Prior Lake
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Identify potential contamination sources and assistance to businesses

Scott
Recipient
City of Savage
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,820
Fund Source

Well survey, manage storage tanks; public education

Scott
Recipient
Shakopee Public Utilities
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Develop emergency response plan; update well inventory and map; public education

Scott
Recipient
City of Northfield
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
Fund Source

Signage, test Spring Creek, emergency manual

Rice
Recipient
City of Northfield
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,367
Fund Source

Purchase transducer to be installed on the new municipal well

Rice
Recipient
Country Prime Time
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$664
Fund Source

Relocate pressure tank to safe environment

Scott
Recipient
City of Prior Lake
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Connect to City infrastructure, seal existing wells and properly abandon septic systems

Scott
Recipient
City of Prior Lake
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

Replace the casing and grout for one of the City's production wells

Scott
Recipient
Scott County Fair
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Construct new well
Scott
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Oftentimes water conservation efforts are directed toward impaired waters. However, it is much more cost-effective to protect habitat and water resources before they become degraded. The Nature Conservancy is using this appropriation to create a broader, long-term, watershed-based framework for proactively protecting habitat and water resources in southeast MN, specifically the Cannon River and Zumbro River watersheds, before they become degraded.

Dakota
Goodhue
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board-Winona State University
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$109,128
Fund Source

The goal of the project is to sustain the existing Volunteer Nitrate Monitoring Network (VNMN) domestic well network for long-term groundwater quality studies by generating ambient groundwater quality data in domestic drinking water wells completed in various southeastern Minnesota aquifers, contrasting vulnerable and non-vulnerable hydrogeologic settings.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this effort is to create an educational video that will “bring to life” geo-scientific information related to groundwater movement in southeast Minnesota. This video will be used by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and other regional partners to help explain the local geology and related groundwater movement. It is anticipated that the video will be used at meetings and other events related to water resource management and natural resource issues. In addition, three stand alone high resolution graphics will be created.

Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$253,000
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
SE Minnesota Water Resources Board
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$263,400
Fund Source

The lack of sewage treatment in many small communities in Southeast Minnesota is causing surface water and groundwater pollution. Ten of these small communities will be the target of the technical assistance provided by this project. These communities have community or individual straight pipes which are discharging raw sewage directly into the environment, surfacing sewage, or have sewage contaminating groundwater.

Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,310
Partner Organizations: Kasson Alliance for Restoration, Mantorville Restoration Association, Friends of Mayowood, Denmark Township Historical Society, Friends of Saint Rose, Preservation Lake City, County Historical Societies, Red Wing Downtown Main Street, Winona Main Street, Winona Area Chamber of Commerce, Faribault Main Street, and Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism PAM will work to provide its partners with staff support, administration, supervision, and additional preservation and planning expertise.
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Washington
Winona
Recipient
SE Minnesota Water Resources Board
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$286,487
Fund Source

The lack of sewage treatment in many small communities in Southeast Minnesota is causing surface water and groundwater pollution. Fourteen of these small communities will receive technical assistance provided by this project. These communities have community or individual straight pipes which are discharging raw sewage directly to the environment, surfacing sewage, or have sewage contaminating groundwater.

Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,924
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,661

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO) is a federated regional public library system with central services located in southeastern Minnesota.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$236,971
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$236,971

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO) is a federated regional public library system with central services located in southeastern Minnesota.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeatern Libraries Cooperating
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$308,980
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$316,008

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona