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Recipient
Wicoie
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000

Our mission is to provide high quality early childhood experiences in conjunction with Ojibwe and Dakota language immersion to urban families in the Twin Cities area.

Hennepin
Recipient
Wicoie
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Hennepin
Recipient
BWSR with Ducks Unlimited
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,630,000
Fund Source

Twenty six easements protecting 1,173.3 were recorded which exceeded the original proposal by 173 acres (15%). 11.6 miles of shoreline were protected which exceeded the 8 acre goal by 30%. Total expenditure was $1,355,000 which was 17% lower than originally budgeted. No fee-title land acquisition opportunities on wild rice lakes that fit within DNR and other government agency land plans were available during this time period thus DU did not expend any of the $100,000 budgeted for fee-title acquisition. Instead the program focused on RIM easements. 

Aitkin
Carlton
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
St. Louis
Wadena
Recipient
BWSR; DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,060,000
Fund Source

This Phase III continuation of the Wild Rice Shoreland Protection project acquired 98 acres for Yaeger Lake Wildlife Management Area (total acquisition was 285 acres but a portion was funded with other LSOHC money, only the portion funded with this grant is reported here) and 14 RIM easements protecting 600 acres for a total of 698 acres of wild rice shoreland habitat in the Northern Forest Section. This exceeded this Phases overall goal by acres for RIM.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
St. Louis
Wadena
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$297,000

Increasing wildfires in Minnesota are mobilizing mercury and degrading water in wilderness lakes, potentially causing increased mercury concentrations in fish. We will develop approaches to protect our lakes and fish.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,900,000
Fund Source

This program acquired, developed, and added 638 acres to the state Wildlife Management Area (WMA) system. These lands protect habitat and provide opportunities for public hunting, trapping and compatible outdoor uses consistent with the Outdoor Recreation Act (M.S. 86A.05, Subd.8).

Anoka
Carlton
Chippewa
Chisago
Freeborn
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Nicollet
Winona
Wright
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,931,000
Fund Source

This program acquired priority lands and developed them as Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) - six parcels protected totaling over 600 acres, Scientific and Natural Areas (SNA) - one parcel of 900 acres (287 acres credited to this funding ), and Native Prairie Bank (NPB) easements - two parcels totaling almost 200 acres. These lands protect habitat and some provide public hunting, trapping and compatible outdoor uses.

Anoka
Big Stone
Carlton
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hubbard
Jackson
Wabasha
Wilkin
Recipient
May Lee-Yang
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

May Lee-Yang will collaborate with local Hmong filmmakers to produce two 30-minute episodes of Hmong Organization, a comedy web series about a Hmong nonprofit and the people who work there. The completed episodes will be made available for free on Youtube.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minneapolis Park Board
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$530,500
Fund Source

$530,500 of the allocated $600,000 was used to enhance 150 acres of Wirth Park habitat. This project included habitat enhancement of woodlands and wetlands involving invasive species removal and planting of native species. This project benefits animal species including the pileated woodpecker and the threatened Blanding’s turtle. Primary outcomes include better quality plant communities, reduced fragmentation, and higher functioning wetlands.

Hennepin
Recipient
Bassett Creek Watershed Management Commission
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

Wirth Lake is located in Theodore Wirth Regional Park in the City of Golden Valley. The lake was listed as Impaired due to excessive phosphorus levels. In recent years water quality goals were met except during instances where seasonal overflows from Bassett Creek into Wirth Lake occurred.With one relatively simple project, the Bassett Creek Watershed Management Commission anticipates that the excess phosphorus problem will be resolved once and for all.

Hennepin
Recipient
VocalEssence
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,770

In 2016, VocalEssence WITNESS welcomes artist Melanie DeMore to help us explore the Underground Railroad in Minnesota—specifically how our state has been a place of sanctuary for refugees from the time of slavery through today. As part of this project, Melanie will help record absent narratives of those who have found sanctuary in Minnesota, and these stories will be shared in video and written form to explore the concept of sanctuary as part of the WITNESS School Program.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
International Wolf Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,000

Wolves are a hot topic in Minnesota, with the public sharply divided on management issues such as wolf hunting. The complexity of the topic lends itself to a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation that is not always helpful to resolving the polarized debate.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
The Woman's Club of Minneapolis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800

To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the Woman's Club of Minneapolis.

Hennepin
Recipient
American Red Cross Twin Cities Area Chapter
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,986
To research and produce a small traveling exhibit about significant contributions of women to the Red Cross in World War I
Hennepin
Recipient
Walker West Music Academy
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,166

This project is comprised of a series of interrelated jazz activities, classes, and workshops, including: 1) Women in Jazz Ensemble (post-secondary students, ages 16-25); 2) introduction to jazz workshops; 3) Jazz jam sessions and rehearsals; 4) school residencies; 5) anti-oppression training/consultation for professional development and to educate, stimulate discussion, and increase awareness of oppressive gender systems; 6) panel discussions; 7) scholarship opportunities.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Wood Krueger Initiatives, LLC
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,950

My proposed project is to create the Urban Native Plant Guide. This set of laminated cards will be a user friendly, portable guide to some of the native plants present in the Minneapolis-St. Paul community. The guide will be created through collaboration and insight from local Native elders and will include traditional uses of the plants, along with their names in Anishinaabe, Dakota, and Lakota where available.

Dakota
Hennepin
Washington
Recipient
Wicoie Nandagikendan
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

To revitalize Dakota and Ojibwe languages through early childhood immersion classes, family and community engagement.

Hennepin
Recipient
American Red Cross Twin Cities Area Chapter
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Hundreds of Minnesota women served on the French Front during World War I as volunteers for organizations such as the Red Cross. Their stories are often overlooked by history. The grand niece of Alice O'Brien, daughter of William O'Brien, has researched and developed a manuscript that combines chapters about Alice's life before and after the war with her letters home from the front during her service in France. The story is a personalized telling of what women volunteers experienced as Canteeners for the Red Cross. A copy of the manuscript was given to the Minnesota Historical Society.

Hennepin
Recipient
Hennepin Health Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To research and draft exhibit text concerning the history of departments and units of the Hennepin County Medical Center.
Hennepin
Recipient
Duluth Children's Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$196,000

Having completed one year in a new and expanded facility, the Duluth Children’s Museum focused on deepening and enriching the visitor experience. Minnesota Arts and Cultural Legacy funding allowed the Museum to focus on intensive educational program services; the rotation of the exhibits to bring fresh and new experiences to the visitor; and investment in a new tracking and reporting system, Altru by Blackbaud, a project begun with a previous Legacy grant.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000

Our Writing for Social Change project will have a lasting impact on MN's literary arts and multicultural education. We will equip African Americans to write their own stories as a manifestation of cultural resilience. Inspired by the African proverb until the Lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the Hunter,the community will become the lions (leaders) who shape their own destiny through the transformative power of storytelling and cultural preservation.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000

The Writing for Justice and Cultural Preservation project creates space for the Somali diaspora, other African communities, and African Americans to create, re-imagine, and build a more just and inclusive world through the transformative power of storytelling and book publishing.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
More Than A Single Story Inc
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,300

This project will provide a writer's cohort that will advance the work of twelve Black writers working in multiple genres. The goals are to 1) deepen individual vision and artistic development; 2) create a cohesive community of writers to support and encourage each other's work; 3) enrich communities of writers and readers with access to personal and cultural perspectives that will foster artistic growth, empathy, and collaboration.

Hennepin
Recipient
Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,000

YES! (Youth Eco Solutions) will empower Minnesota youth to reduce their carbon footprints by losing 5,000 pounds of CO2 per YES team each school year.

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
American Bird Conservancy
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,275,000
Fund Source

Young Forest Conservation Phase III will continue American Bird Conservancy's successful, ongoing efforts to maintain, restore, and enhance Golden-winged Warbler, American Woodcock, and Ruffed Grouse breeding habitat on publicly protected lands in Minnesota. This work also benefits a suite of associated deciduous, mixed upland and lowland forest habitat species within a diverse, contiguous landscape-level forest matrix. Through Phases I and II, ABC completed 5,535 acres of high-quality early successional habitat projects.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Crow Wing
Recipient
American Bird Conservancy
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,369,000
Fund Source

Restore 3,647 acres of public forest to help meet wildlife and recreational goals within six Minnesota conservation plans, leverage $500,000 from outside sources for forest restoration on private lands and keep Golden-winged Warbler off the ESA.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Clearwater
Hubbard
Itasca
St. Louis
Recipient
American Bird Conservancy
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,229,000
Fund Source

Young Forest Conservation Phase IV will continue American Bird Conservancy's successful, ongoing efforts to maintain and enhance Golden-winged Warbler, American Woodcock, and Ruffed Grouse breeding habitat on publicly protected lands. This work also benefits a suite of associated deciduous and mixed forest habitat species within a diverse, contiguous landscape-level forest matrix. Through Phases I-III, ABC completed 9,204 acres of high-quality early successional habitat projects.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Itasca
Lake of the Woods
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,851
MNHS partners with diverse organizations to create in-depth, meaningful learning experiences for young people that help them develop career and life skills. The Mazinaakizige: American Indian Teen Photography Program welcomed six American Indian high school students who investigated historic and contemporary images of American Indians, learned digital photography, and created a gallery show to interpret the theme "Powerful." The opening was held at the Two Rivers Gallery on Dec. 9, 2016, with the gallery donating the space, announcement postcards and frames for the prints.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,578
MNHS partners with diverse organizations to create in-depth, meaningful learning experiences for young people that help them develop career and life skills. One example is the Mazinaakizige: American Indian Teen Photography Program.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,135

This project will provide access to theater programs in schools, recreation centers, and other youth serving organizations. The theater arts program will be for BIPOC youth ages 12-17 years old. The program will run for six weeks each season throughout the year plus (spring 2024, summer 2024, fall 2024, winter 2024, and spring 2025) for two hours per day, three days per week.

Hennepin
Recipient
Sepak Takraw of USA
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,000

The project is to research, develop, write and publish the rule and regulations for the sport of Sepak Takraw and Tujlub. Rules and guidelines for type material, size, weights, heights, softness, court sizes, court marking for the age appropriate level of plays. The funds will be used to contract local experts in coaching, officiating and other related athletic and educational areas of up to the publication phase.

Chisago
Hennepin
Isanti
Marshall
Nobles
Olmsted
Ramsey
Roseau
Washington
Recipient
Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000

Adoption of renewable energy technologies and energy conservation practices can contribute in a variety of ways to the environmental and economic health of rural Minnesota communities through costs savings and emissions reductions. Engaging and coaching students as the leaders in the process of implementing such practices provides the added benefit of increasing knowledge, teaching about potential career paths, and developing leadership experience.

Aitkin
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Cass
Chippewa
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Waseca
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Yellow Medicine