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Winona County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,953

Improved the safety and the environment for historical artifacts by separating an exhibit fabrication area.

An old coal room was retrofitted with a compatible reuse where the intake has been reversed to exhale. This special facility will enable the Winona County Historical Society to be more intentional and responsive with its exhibits, which before the addition were fairly static. Their stated intention in the final report is to have exhibits that change more often and therefore prompt the Society’s building to be used a more frequent gathering space.

Winona
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Winona County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$109,507
To begin the inventory of collections documenting the history of Winona County.
Winona
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Winona County Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,861
Winona
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Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$285,000
Fund Source

This proposal will fund technical assistance for nutrient management planning to accelerate water quality improvements with the 12-county West Central Technical Service Area (WCTSA). A needs assessment identified an estimated 156 certified nutrient management plans that will be needed over a 3 year period. Of the 71 SWCD employees in the WCTSA, only 1 SWCD staff member is dedicated to nutrient management planning. To meet technical assistance needs, this grant will fund a Regional Planning Specialist (RPS) to address local resource concerns.

Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
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Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The West Central Technical Service Area (WCTSA) serves 12 Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) in west central Minnesota and has been experiencing increased workload due to greater requests from member SWCDs. This funding will sustain a limited-term technician and purchase related support equipment to assist landowners in implementing targeted, high priority practices that result in the greatest water quality outcomes.

Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
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Itasca County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,376

To broaden and improve public access to Itasca County history, a website was developed and designed using ICHS criteria. Staff and volunteers have been trained in its use.

The website is:  www.itascahistorical.org

Itasca
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Dorothy Molter Foundation and Museum
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,300

The DMF has completely redesigned its website to broaden and improve public experience and increase accessibility to Boundary Waters history by illustrating the life of Dorothy Molter. The updated website provides searchable internet access to its archives, collects and shares memories of Dorothy Molter, has enabled news updates and improved the ease of online membership renewals and product sales.

Go to: http://rootbeerlady.com

 

 

Lake
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Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$303,592
MNHS continues to focus on broadening access to many of its Legacy-funded programs through the Internet. This funding supports the web development professionals who plan, build and implement digital components that are part of many Legacy-funded history projects. MNHS also uses the web to report on its use of Legacy funds at legacy.mnhs.org and for the public to apply for Legacy grant funds at legacy.mnhs.org/grants.
Statewide
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Carver County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,850
The Carver County Historical Society website (www.carvercountyhistoricalsociety.org) was completely redesigned to reflect the community expressed need for the ability to research local history. This included, newspaper indexing, photo research, plat maps/GIS, historic properties, National Register information, and local resources.
The surveys sent to member reinforced their desire to be able to research online. More than 90% of respondents asked for access to research photos. Another 80% asked for plat map access.
Carver
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Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,250
MNHS continues to focus on broadening access to many of its Legacy-funded programs through the Internet. This funding supports the web development professionals who plan, build, and implement digital components that are part of many Legacy-funded history projects and helps pay for Web hosting to make these projects accessible to people in Minnesota and beyond. MNHS also uses the web to report on its use of Legacy funds at legacy.mnhs.org and for the public to apply for Legacy grant funds at legacy.mnhs.org/grants.
Statewide
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The Saint Paul Foundation
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,150

To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit design plan for the Philando Castile Peace Garden.

Statewide
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Ramsey County Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,000
Ramsey
Recipient
Olmsted County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,999
To broaden and improve public experience and increase accessibility to Olmsted County history through a website
Olmsted
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City of Coon Rapids
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Fund Source

to install a solar powered LED crosswalk push button flasher to assist Wedgewood Trail users cross Round Lake Boulevard

Hennepin
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Regents of the University of Minnesota (Weisman Art Museum)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,220
Statewide
Hennepin
Ramsey
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St. Catherine University
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,202
Ramsey
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Wabasha SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,000
Fund Source

This project will educate and assist landowners to seal unused wells by providing cost-share funds of 50% up to $1,000 per well located in highly vulnerable groundwater areas in 10 southeast Minnesota counties. Groundwater is the primary source of drinking water and due to the karst geology in SE MN groundwater is more vulnerable to contamination.

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
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Olmsted County
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,000
Fund Source
Olmsted
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Yellow Medicine County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source

The Yellow Medicine One Watershed One Plan has identified Protecting and Preserving Groundwater Quality and Quantity as one of the three priorities addressed in the Plan. Seven priority sub-watersheds have been identified as priority areas, as well as two townships that have been identified by the Department of Agriculture to have vulnerable groundwater areas. Our goal is to provide 50% cost share to seal 34 abandoned wells that are located in these priority areas.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
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Washington County
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,500
Fund Source
Washington
Watonwan
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Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,300,000
Fund Source

This program is a part of a comprehensive clean water strategy to prevent sediment and nutrients from entering our lakes, rivers, and streams; enhance fish and wildlife habitat; protect groundwater and wetlands. Specifically the Wellhead Protection Conservation Easement program is targeted to protect drinking water through the Reinvest in Minnesota Program (RIM).

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Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
Fund Source

This program is a part of a comprehensive clean water strategy to prevent sediment and nutrients from entering our lakes, rivers, and streams; enhance fish and wildlife habitat; protect groundwater and wetlands. Specifically the Wellhead Protection Conservation Easement program is targeted to protect drinking water through the Reinvest in Minnesota Program (RIM).

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Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,300,000
Fund Source

This program is a part of a comprehensive clean water strategy to prevent sediment and nutrients from entering our lakes, rivers, and streams; enhance fish and wildlife habitat; protect groundwater and wetlands. Specifically the Wellhead Protection Conservation Easement program is targeted to protect drinking water through the Reinvest in Minnesota Program (RIM).

Cottonwood
Grant
Otter Tail
Rock
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Church of St Wenceslaus
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,566
Scott
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Wadena County Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the 1925 Wesley Hospital Building, Wadena, MN.

Wadena
Statewide
Recipient
Watonwan County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,000

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare planning documents that will help preserve West Bridge, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Watonwan
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West Bank Athletic Club
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Soccer is important to Somali culture and the most popular sport in Somalia. The proposed activity is our 11th annual Thanksgiving tournament. In order to make the popular tournament a more holistic community event, we will incorporate Somali singers and poets into the soccer tournament program.

Blue Earth
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stearns
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West Bank Athletic Club
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

West Bank Athletic Club (WBAC) will expand its popular, ten-year running Somali youth soccer tournament into a comprehensive cultural heritage festival that includes Somali-specific sports, arts, and cultural activities. The 2021 WBAC Summer Festival will include a soccer tournament, live Somali music, interactive workshops, speakers, and a variety of arts and cultural activities led by youth.

Hennepin
Ramsey
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Brown County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$167,969
Brown
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West Concord Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
Dodge
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West Concord Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Dodge
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Washington Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

A large amount of effort has gone in to identifying phosphorous loading and other nutrient sources in West Washington County. Installing stormwater retrofit projects at local church campuses represents a major opportunity for water quality improvement. In partnership, three watershed organizations will install conservation practices, targeting impervious surfaces on the campuses. This project will provide funding to install raingardens, pervious pavement and rainwater harvesting methods to capture and improve water quality to downstream water resources.

Washington
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West Concord Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified architect to conduct a condition assessment of the 1902 West Concord High School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Dodge
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The Bakken Museum
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To fabricate and install an exhibit that provides access to its museum hosed in the 1929 William E. Goodfellow mansion
Hennepin
Recipient
Heron Lake Watershed District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,955
Fund Source

Locating the sources of sediment, phosphorus, and bacteria is integral to reducing the effect they have on a water body. The completion of the West Fork Des Moines River (WFDMR) Targeting and Prioritizing Endeavor will result in a set of data that is the most cost-effective for the implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for all identified priority resources. The results will be expressed as the maximum reduction of a water quality contaminant (e.g. sediment, phosphorus, bacteria) at a priority resource (e.g. an impaired stream) for a given level of investment.

Cottonwood
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
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Heron Lake Watershed District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

This monitoring work expands on previously established routine water quality and flow sampling to include extensive fish and aquatic invertebrate surveys. Subsequent steps include assessment of the monitoring data to determine impairments, identification of stressors that are causing impairments, development of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies using identification of pollutant sources using computer modeling and other techniques, civic engagement, and public education as approaches in progress towards water quality goals.

Cottonwood
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
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Three Rivers Park District
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$258,750
Fund Source

Acquire 1.98 acres for West Mississippi River Regional Trail

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Three Rivers Park District
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,898
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$188,102
Fund Source

Acquire 1.1 acres for West Mississippi River Regional Trail

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Three Rivers Park District
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$133,392
Fund Source

Acquire 1.01 acres

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Three Rivers Park District
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,961
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,199
Fund Source

Acquire 1.22 acres