All Projects

3925 Results for
Recipient
South Central Minnesota Studio Art Tour AKA South Central Minnesota Studio ArTour
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

Presenter/Production Assistance

Anoka
Blue Earth
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Meeker
Meeker
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Vintage Band Music Festival AKA Vintage Band Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Presenter/Production Assistance

Aitkin
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Lyon
Nicollet
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Wilkin
Wright
Recipient
Jewish Community Action
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,940
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
City of Afton
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,220

To hire qualified conservators and structural engineers to restore a significant wall mural in the museum's collections.

Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,000

We propose to integrate Minnesota Wildflowers Information, an online tool for plant identification, with the Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas, to preserve and extend this popular ENTRF-supported resource for future use.

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
Hmong Archives
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000

Colors of the North: Preserving Hmong Minnesota Heritage and Paj Ntaub in a Holiday Coloring Book Project, will provide education for student outreach on cultural diversity and celebration that empower the younger generation in building identity and culture within this ever changing and assimilating world through our Hmong Holiday Coloring Project. Our project will bring a sense of belonging and foster wellness in Hmong children and families to appreciate who they are.

Anoka
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
May Hang
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,259

This project integrates traditional Hmong healing practices into modern lifestyles and empowers younger Hmong to embrace the wisdom of their ancestors for overall health and well-being.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Andrea Manolov
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,930

This project will preserve and facilitate public access to the Northland Poster Collective (NPC). NPC was a print shop in Minneapolis which operated from 1979-2009. The artists who ran NPC created art to represent identities and interests of Latinx, Black, Asian American, LGBTQIA+, and working-class people in Minnesota.

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$656,000

This project helps Minnesota entities that directly or indirectly cause PFAS and microplastics contamination stop the flow of the contaminants by developing strategies to manage solid waste streams.

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
COMPAS, Inc.
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,000

Expanding COMPAS' Prism Arts, MN Teaching Artists from African, Indigenous, and/or Asian heritages, will develop & deliver arts residencies that teach an art form with roots in their cultural heritage. Residencies will include learning the art form's cultural context, artists from that culture who have influenced it, and creating the art form alongside the Teaching Artist. Artists will select the MN community where their residency will be delivered, focusing on increasing access to the art form.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Northern MN District Fair Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,500

To bring a variety of new arts and cultural heritage programming to the Northern Minnesota District Fair. Fair will collaborate with Ice Box Radio Theater, Native American speakers, host a bag pipe band and a local country band.

Koochiching
Recipient
South Central Minnesota Studio ArTour
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000

Programming Grant

Anoka
Beltrami
Benton
Carver
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Athena Music and Leadership Camp Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Project Grant

Stearns
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Washington
Scott
Sherburne
Dakota
Recipient
The Saint John's Boys' Choir
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Project Grant

Isanti
Washington
Wright
Hennepin
Sherburne
Pipestone
McLeod
Stearns
Mille Lacs
Scott
Meeker
Le Sueur
Kandiyohi
Benton
Douglas
Morrison
Todd
Pope
Kanabec
Crow Wing
Becker
Recipient
Saint John's University AKA Saint John's University Fine Arts Programming
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Project Trio residency and performance
Washington
Dakota
Ramsey
Anoka
Sherburne
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Stearns
Todd
Morrison
Benton
Recipient
Duluth Children's Museum
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$145,500

The Duluth Children's Museum is a place for every family to learn and play. Highlighting local cultures through new exhibits, programming, and partnership, the museum will draw new audiences.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Visual Arts Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,110
Project Grant
Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Washington
Grant
Anoka
Crow Wing
Big Stone
Marshall
Hennepin
Itasca
Olmsted
Olmsted
Goodhue
Ramsey
Wright
Otter Tail
Mower
Nobles
Dakota
Recipient
STMA Music Boosters Club
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000

Project Grant

Washington
Wright
Sherburne
Sherburne
Recipient
Sinclair Lewis Foundation
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,545

Project Grant

Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Douglas
Pope
Hennepin
Washington
Dakota
Morrison
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Sinclair Lewis Foundation
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,760

Project Grant

Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Douglas
Pope
Hennepin
Washington
Dakota
Morrison
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source
Washington
Recipient
NWLT, MLT
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,648,000
Fund Source

This program will bring focused conservation to one of Minnesota's priority aquatic resources, Lakes of Outstanding Biological Significance. These threatened lakes possess outstanding fisheries and provide habitat for a variety of Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN); yet, at present, no habitat protection program specifically targets these priority resources.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Ruffed Grouse Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,046,000
Fund Source

This proposal serves to protect 580 acres and enhance 140 acres of forest habitats within Minnesota's public forests through fee title acquisition of strategic private forest land inholdings in State, County and National Forests. Successful efforts will 1) greatly increase management efficiencies and effectiveness of surrounding public forest lands, 2) address primary forest habitat management concerns of forest habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation, and 3) serve to address critical forest and recreational user access needs.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Duluth Children's Museum, Inc.
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,000

The Duluth Children's Museum recently reopened in its new location, providing a firm foundation to serve the community into the future. This project will allow the museum to add two new interactive arts and cultural heritage experiences; Nibi, an Ojibwe language exhibit focused on water, and CreateSpace, an art and maker area.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,208

To conduct primary source research on the history of small watercraft in Minnesota.

Dakota
Hennepin
Koochiching
Otter Tail
St. Louis
Recipient
Elizabeth J. Belz
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40

Quick Start Grants

Cook
Washington
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
Rachael E. Kilgour
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40
Quick Start Grants
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Lake
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Rachael Kilgour
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$293
Quick Start Opportunity Grants
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Hennepin
Isanti
Anoka
Sherburne
Ramsey
Chisago
Washington
Aitkin
Itasca
Crow Wing
Olmsted
Blue Earth
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
A.H. Zeppa Family Foundation AKA Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193

Quick Start Opportunity Grants

St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Cook
Aitkin
Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
Twin Ports Choral Project
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$320
Quick Start Grants
St. Louis
Washington
Recipient
Middle St. Croix WMO
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,670
Fund Source

In 2007, the City of Lakeland and the Middle St. Croix Watershed Management Organization identified water quality issues related to the existing drainage on Quixote Avenue, a paved north/south roadway directly adjacent to the St. Croix River bluffline. Currently, Quixote Avenue collects and drains stormwater runoff from residential lots and roadways before it concentrates at the end of the roadway and discharges over the bluffline directly into Lake St. Croix.

Washington
Recipient
City of Wyoming
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$96,000

The City of Wyoming has proudly commenced construction of Railroad Park, a new and exciting addition to our community that will kick off the redevelopment of our downtown development plan. This vibrant community space is being developed in three phases as we work towards celebrating our City's rich heritage, honoring our veterans, and providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for residents and visitors alike. The first phase of Railroad Park, which construction began on in Fall of 2023, is the Veterans Memorial portion of the project.

Anoka
Chisago
Washington
Recipient
Koochiching County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$323,695
Fund Source

There are seven major watersheds Koochiching County, this project will work in five of them: Big Fork, Little Fork, Rapid River, Lower Rainy River, and Rainy River Headwaters watersheds. The local Koochiching County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) is positioned to assist in several elements of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process. This includes gap monitoring for water chemistry, sediment work, TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) development, modeling scenarios, and WRAPS development.

Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Koochiching County Soil and Water Conservation District (KSWCD)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$104,975
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to establish an International Watershed Coordinator for the Lake of the Woods and Rainy River (LOW/RR) watershed, to assist the MPCA in facilitating and enhancing civic engagement through collaboration and integration of the efforts of groups working on watershed activities at local, state/provincial and bi-national levels of organization.

Koochiching
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
Koochiching Soil & Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$51,212
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,756
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,850
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,980
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$69,826
Fund Source

The Rainy River Basin WPLMN Sampling Program will focus on watershed load monitoring in the Big Fork River, Little Fork River, Rainy River-Rainy Lake, and Vermilion River watersheds. Four total staff will work on various portions of this agreement.  The main objective is for one lead sampler and one backup sampler to collect water chemistry and field parameters for eight (8) sites, annually at various flows, especially peak flows, and utilize that data to determine the amount of pollutant load into each stream system.

Koochiching
St. Louis
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