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Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$431,000

Find and control Palmer amaranth in conservation plantings to prevent severe economic damage and protect prairies.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$145,026
PAM Education is a training series developed for homeowners, realtors, community members and professionals in fields that frequently interact with historic buildings and districts. This year the program had a significant focus on reaching new audiences.
Statewide
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$980,200
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$243,784
Fund Source

This program area accounts for all administration costs that support all projects DNR is engaged in to administer the FY10/FY11 strategic objectives of the Parks and Trails Legacy Fund. Administration costs are directly related to and necessary for project success including support for: accounting, clerical support, executive, managerial and supervisory personnel, facilities management, office equipment and supplies, human resources, information technology, communications, insurance, legal services, purchasing, rent/lease, and security.

Statewide
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$226,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$104,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,000
Fund Source

The 17 member Park and Trail Legacy Advisory Committee is appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, the Chair of the Metropolitan Council and the Chair of the Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission. The mission of the committee is to champion the 25 year "Parks and Trails Legacy Plan" by providing recommendations to enhance promotion, coordination, and accountability throughout implementation of the plan.

Statewide
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

This program is beginning with a pilot research project to determine visitor satisfaction with new programs being offered through the Legacy Amendment and if the target market is being reached.

Statewide
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,078,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,533,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,686,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,331,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,777,500
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,870,750
Fund Source

To provide grants to local units of government to support parks and trails of regional or statewide significance outside of the seven county metropolitan area. Funding for this grant program is from the Parks and Trails Fund created by the Minnesota Legislature from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment passed by the voters in 2008.

Statewide
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

This is to create new Legacy badges for the seasonal Naturalist Corps

Statewide
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,286,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,074,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,857,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,139,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,910,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,445,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,293,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,033,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,618,000
Fund Source

To provide grants to local units of government to support parks and trails of regional or statewide significance outside of the seven county metropolitan area. Funding for this grant program is from the Parks and Trails Fund created by the Minnesota Legislature from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment passed by the voters in 2008. Beginning July 1, 2015 (fiscal year 2016), the Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission (GMRPTC) assumed management of reviewing and awarding these grants.

Statewide
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,572
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

To develop a 25 year long range plan for the use of the money available in the parks and trail fund as well as other traditional sources of funding. Also the development of a 10 year strategic coordination plan is required. The plan is to include a vision, goals and measureable outcomes. The plan must also address specific deliverables outlined in statute. Public engagement was the foundation for the recommendations. The plan was developed in collaboration with other park and trail providers.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Masonic Historical Society and Museum
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,720

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Masonic Historical Society and Museum
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,549
Statewide
Recipient
CHOICE, Unlimited
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Partners in Arts Participation

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
The Duluth Clinic
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Partners in Arts Participation

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Ecumen Scenic Shores Assisted Living
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,100
Partners in Arts Participation
Lake
Recipient
Benedictine Health System
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,166
Partners in Arts Participation
Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Ecumen Scenic Shores
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,825
Partners in Arts Participation
Lake
Recipient
Courage Kenny Foundation AKA Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,975

Partners in Arts Participation

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
Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,448

To develop a partnership between Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa and Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps.

Statewide
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000

Passport to Culture: Removing barriers to participation will serve 1500 households, reaching approximately 6,000 children and their adult caregivers from across the region. Passport to Culture eliminates the financial barriers to participation by families most vulnerable in our society, providing membership, enhanced by direct program opportunities targeted to serve low income households designed to create a pattern of use of cultural organizations by families.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cass
Cook
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Duluth Children's Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000

The Duluth Children’s Museum has initiated three major programs with the support of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Funds. This program continues and expands these successful programs to ensure continuity in cultural experiences for the youngest audiences in rural Minnesota. The programs are organized under two major headings: Museum on the Move and Passport to Culture. Passport to Culture is an access program designed to give constituents admission to the museum.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$295,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$295,000
Fund Source

Provide expanded state trail safety and efforts to protect the integrity of the paved surfaces. This included erecting larger stop and stop ahead signing to be consistent with national standards. Also included additional crack sealing efforts in a more timely manner, increase effort in mowing to increase user safety, reduce woody vegetation close to the trail and reduce the damage to trail surface caused by root suckering. More mowing and timely mowing also reduces the threat of invasives be spread by seeds by mowing prior to that.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000

There are 3 million acres of peatland forests in Minnesota. This proposal will identify management actions that maximize ecosystem benefits of peatland forests, including wildlife, water, timber, and native plants.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Marshall
Pennington
Pine
Red Lake
Roseau
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$195,000
Since 1976, Penumbra Theatre has ignited dialogue and social action in the Twin Cities and beyond by presenting original, compelling works grounded in the history of African American artistic expression and social justice. The 2016-2017 season marks Penumbra's 40th anniversary, and MNHS is developing an exhibit on the theater's rich history and legacy, in partnership with Penumbra and the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,601
In 2017, St. Paul's world renown Penumbra Theatre will celebrate its 40 anniversary. This exhibit, a three way partnership between MNHS, Penumbra Theatre and the University of Minnesota, will highlight the central role this local theater company played in the burgeoning Black Arts Movement through documents, artifacts, costumes, videoed performances and interviews, and stage sets. Exhibit opens February 18 and runs through July 31, 2017. Outcome goals: MHC attendance greater than 240,000 in FY17. Net Promoter Score goal +50 or higher.
Statewide
Recipient
Perpich Center for Arts Education
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$259,288

The Arts Education in Minnesota Schools Research Project is surveying all public and private schools to collect baseline data on the status of arts education statewide to serve as a resource for making data-driven decisions. A national research and evaluation company, Quadrant Arts Education Research, is conducting the study, comprised of three elements.

Element One: Arts Integration Survey

Statewide
Recipient
Perpich Center for Arts Education
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$795,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000

The Perpich Arts Integration Network of Teachers (PAINT) fosters collaborative arts integration in Minnesota through K-12 teacher professional development and funding to schools. With Perpich Center facilitation, teacher teams develop and implement arts-integrated lessons and units. PAINT program components include:

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Clay
Cook
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Itasca
Lake
Mower
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Ramsey
St. Louis
Steele
Stevens
Wabasha
Wilkin
Winona
Recipient
Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,439

To document in 15 oral history interviews the history of first- and second-generation Romanian immigrants to Minnesota.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325,000
Fund Source

The purpose of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture's monitoring activities is to determine the presence and concentration of pesticides in Minnesota's groundwater and surface water. Monitoring information is used to characterize and assess the extent of pesticide impacts to Minnesota's water resources.

Statewide
Recipient
Carver County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To preserve wood components of the north barn, a contributing feature of the Andrew Peterson Farmstead, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Statewide
Carver
Recipient
City of Saint Paul - Parks and Recreation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,000

This Minnesota Humanities Center Heritage Grant will allow project partners to plan and design a Chinese garden in Phalen Regional Park to commemorate the City of Saint Paul's Sister City Relationship with Changsha, China.

Statewide
Recipient
Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,961
Lake
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000
Statewide
Ramsey
Recipient
Giants of the Earth Heritage Center
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified consultants to develop and install an exhibit on Minnesota author and artist Peter Rosendahl's comic strip "Han Ola og han Per."

Houston
Statewide
Recipient
Dakota County Historical Society
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$97,000

To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit design and development documents to enhance and broaden the George Daniels exhibit.

Dakota
Statewide
Recipient
Waseca County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$163,700
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,240
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$392,000

Provide professional development workshops at three Greater Minnesota locations for 60 teachers to use phenology education curriculum and community science resources, reaching >7,000 students in the first three years.

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
Barr Engineering Company
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,640
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,216
Fund Source

To contractor will develop materials on the topic of phosphorus retention by bioretention media components. Information from the deliverables will be incorporated into the Minnesota Stormwater Manual, with the goal of providing information to MS4 permittees to facilitate compliance with Total Maximum Daily Load  (TMDL) requirements in stormwater permits.

Statewide
Recipient
Ernest C. Oberholtzer Foundation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Statewide
Koochiching
Recipient
Itasca County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,950

To document in 15 oral history interviews the history and impact of the Minnesota State Photograph "Grace" to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

Statewide
Itasca