All Projects

3322 Results for
Recipient
Brian T. Miller
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,961
Folk and Traditional Arts
Beltrami
Cook
Dakota
Hennepin
Itasca
Lake
Pine
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,175
Folk and Traditional Arts
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
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
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
St. Louis
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Fond du Lac Reservation
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,373

The Ojibwe Aanikeginde-mazina’iganan project will create classroom literacy readers for Grades K-5. These readers will be printed only in Ojibwe with the teacher’s editions including English translations to assist teachers so they can help students develop understanding. The readers will be printed in the standard Double-Vowel Orthography. First Language Speakers will be the primary sources of language for the classroom literacy readers.

Statewide
Recipient
Beltrami County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To construct an exhibit building adjacent to the fire tower now located on the Beltrami County Fairgrounds. The new building will replicate an authentic 1950s ranger station and will house an exhibit of Minnesota forest fire service activity, Ojibwa cultural history, a display of Paul Bunyan legends and artifacts, and space for historical, cultural and environmental education.

Beltrami
Recipient
U of MN
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,200,000

n/a

Statewide
Recipient
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,000,000
Fund Source

Our program/project will protect and maintain intact forest ecosystems through the use of perpetual conservation easements and other tools. This program/project will directly protect approximately 187, 277 acres of forest and wetlands with permanent conservation easements and 1,344 acres with fee acquisition.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Itasca
Kanabec
Kanabec
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000,000
Fund Source

This program funded grants to local units of government and other entities to supplement, not supplant existing budgets. Two categories of grants made available: 1) focus on response to invasive forest pest incidents, 2) focus on planning and preparedness for the arrival of invasive forest pests. The program will also update the state's invasive and exotic tree pest plans.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Minnesota DNR and the Minnesota Forest Resources Council work with forest landowners, managers and loggers to implement a set of voluntary sustainable forest management guidelines that include water quality best management practices (BMPs) to ensure sustainable habitat, clean water, and productive forest soils, all contributing to healthy watersheds. This project will monitor the implementation of these forest management guidelines and BMPs on forested watersheds in MN.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Roseau
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,503
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$433,878

The Minnesota Historical Society is collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to build four computer models of Historic Fort Snelling that will illustrate the Fort at various points in its history.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

Four new and unique views of Fort Snelling from various points in history will be available for students, teachers and the general public to access online. The Minnesota Historical Society has been collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to build four computer models that illustrate a dynamic and changing Fort Snelling from 1820 to 1945. The models will be linked to a rich and interrelated set of materials from all parts of the Society's collections, including photographs and manuscripts.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,237
In the fourth year of this project, MNHS staff completed inventory and rehousing of most artifacts excavated from Historic Fort Snelling between 1957 and 1981. The Collections Management System now has 118,500 records for Fort Snelling artifacts. Three hundred items were photographed and are now accessible to the public online. In 2016, an exhibit featuring patent medicine bottles found at Fort Snelling was developed and installed in the Fort Snelling Visitor Center.
Statewide
Recipient
Hennepin County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
To hire qualified professionals to replace the roof on Building 55 at Fort Snelling, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Statewide
Recipient
Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,442
Fund Source

This leadership workshop series will provide the participants (citizen leaders) with knowledge, skills, processes and tools that can help to strengthen their current efforts and nurture new ones.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
MN DNR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$195,000

This project will build the first comprehensive list of Minnesota moths and butterflies. Information gained through surveys and outreach efforts will inform land managers and inspire public appreciation.

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
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,800

To hire qualified professionals to edit a manuscript on the history of the Franciscan Sisters in Little Falls.

Statewide
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,125
Statewide
Recipient
Beltrami County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,348

To restore the Freeman Doud Cabin and Sunnyside School, located on the Beltrami County fairgrounds. During the fair, visitors will be able to able to observe the log cabin restoration and chinking process. Display boards will depict the history of the cabin, show where it was built on Lake Bemidji, and acquaint people with the importance of preserving this history.

Beltrami
Recipient
Board of Water & Soil Resources
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$397,580
Fund Source

BWSR will administer funding to eligible County projects that provide funds and other assistance to low income property owners to upgrade or replace Noncompliant Septic Systems. BWSR will also manage annual reporting completed by each County.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Big Stone
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Hubbard
Isanti
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake of the Woods
Lincoln
Marshall
McLeod
Morrison
Norman
Olmsted
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Roseau
Scott
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Wilkin
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Cass Gilbert Society, Inc.
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$96,500

To hire a qualified consultant to research the history and disposition of the original furnishings from the Minnesota State Capitol.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

This is a project to to proactively address future threats to safe drinking water. This project will incorporate findings and recommendations from the Future of Drinking Water report to assess, prioritize, and manage drinking water risks.  Through this project, a voluntary statewide plan for protecting drinking water will be developed.  Additional outcomes from this project include public health policies and an action plan.

Statewide
Recipient
RESPEC
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,986
Fund Source

This project will finalize HSPF watershed model construction and complete the calibration/validation process. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. An initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval.

Beltrami
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Marshall
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Recipient
Aqua Terra Consultants
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,848
Fund Source

This project will maximize the utility and usefulness of three HSPF models that have been constructed and calibrated for hydrology. The contractor will identify and reduce parameterization errors in the following three HSPF models: 1) Buffalo River Watershed, 2 ) Thief River Watershed, 3) Bois de Sioux-Mustinka Watersheds. This will result, not only in a better hydrology calibration, but will also improve each of the models’ ability to more accurately estimate sediment and pollutant loads and concentrations.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Clay
Grant
Marshall
Otter Tail
Pennington
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
United States Geological Survey
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,481
Fund Source

Groundwater sample collection and analysis will be conducted for contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) at large subsurface treatment systems (LSTS) and rapid infiltration basins (RIB), using an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methodology. Results from the ELISA analysis will be reported to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and used to conduct follow-up investigations at a select number of these sites.

Statewide
Recipient
United States Geological Survey
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$231,946
Fund Source

Groundwater sample collection and analysis will be conducted for contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) at large subsurface treatment systems (LSTS) and rapid infiltration basins (RIB), using an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methodology. Results from the ELISA analysis will be reported to the MPCA and used to conduct follow-up investigations at a select number of these sites.

Statewide
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,044
Fund Source

This project involves the water quality monitoring of, and data analysis for four major watersheds (8-digit Hydrologic Unit Codes) in the Rainy River Basin. This monitoring will assist in providing the water chemistry data needed to calculate annual pollutant loads for the Major Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (MWPLMN) and provide short term data sets of select parameters to other Agency programs.

Beltrami
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Recipient
Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,040
Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$349,000
Statewide
Recipient
City of Litchfield
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Statewide
Recipient
Charles E. Gagnon Museum and Sculpture Garden
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,273
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,260
Statewide
Recipient
U of MN - WCROC
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Statewide
Recipient
Red Dragonfly Press
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,400
General Operating Support
Beltrami
Douglas
Goodhue
Stearns
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$131,641
Development is underway on a number of future History Center exhibitions that will explore rich stories of Minnesota's past. Major exhibitions will center on how Minnesotans have played, the national impact of the 18th Amendment and Prohibition, the Vietnam War experience and its legacy, and professional football and the Vikings. Other exhibitions will highlight the variety of communities in the state and will bring the fascinating collections of the Minnesota Historical Society to public view.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$305,769
In order to implement its Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF) projects, the Minnesota Historical Society employs an ACHF Manager to oversee the program administration. The Society is also supporting administration of the grants program and expanded financial management and administrative functions. The Society is diligently working to keep administrative costs low while adhering to the legislative mandate that costs be "directly related to and necessary for a specific appropriation."
Statewide
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,650

To hire a qualified museum consultant to conduct a general preservation needs assessment survey and long range collections preservation plan.

Statewide
Recipient
Edge of the Wilderness Community Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000
General Operating Support
Itasca
Koochiching
Beltrami
St. Louis
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,626
To hire professional conservators to assess historically significant collections and write a long range preservation plan.
Ramsey
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Museum of American Art
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,346
To hire a qualified professional to conduct a general preservation needs assessment survey and long range collections preservation plan.
Statewide