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Wright SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$213,600
Fund Source
Wright
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Wright SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$163,000
Fund Source
Wright
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Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,771

A prominent county courthouse, a Depression-era school building, an iconic Modern ice-cream stand, and a Northern Minnesota lakeside overlook are among the diverse sites named to the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota’s 2010 list of the state’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places.

A photographic exhibit featuring the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2010 was created with MHCG funds and displayed at museums, libraries, and other public places statewide throughout the year.

Ramsey
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Chinese American Academic and Professional Association in MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To add to the known history of the Chinese experience in Minnesota in the years 1911-2011, the CAAPAM conducted oral history interviews of Chinese Americans to gather information about their memories of immigration and settlement in Minnesota in relation to historical events happening in the homeland after 1970.

The interviewees were chosen to represent diverse periods, backgrounds, lengths of residency and professions.

Washington
Recipient
Carleton College
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,999
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
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Science Museum of Minnesota
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193,013
Lincoln
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Oyate Nipi Kte
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,815
To supplement previous work on preserving the Dakota language, which transmits history and cultural heritage, by defining 451 additional verbs.
Anoka
Hennepin
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Granite Falls Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,407

To prepare exhibits and events to mark the centennials of the 1919 National Prohibition Act and the 1922 Capper-Volstead Act.

Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
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Dassel-Cokato Baseball Association
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,978

To hire a qualified historian to research and write the history of the Minnesota Amateur Baseball State Tournament for their 100th anniversary in 2023.

Statewide
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Bois de Sioux WD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
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Through the Mustinka River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy high priority locations have been identified as critical areas to reduce sediment from agricultural fields. The goal of this project is to target one of the areas that is of high concern, the watershed of Traverse County Ditch 37. This effort intends to begin a program to install side inlets and erosion control berms along the ditch with the goal of reducing the sediment load by 340 tons of sediment per year.

Traverse
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Freshwater Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
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This project will provide support for the 10th Annual Road Salt Symposium at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The symposium brings together environmental organizations, companies that produce winter road de-icing salts and chemicals, scientists, policy-makers and transportation workers. They Symposium provides information on chlorides in our waters and provides innovative and new approaches to help repair our waters and sustain our resources for future generations.

Statewide
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Anoka County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,675
Fund Source

1.3 acre acquisition for Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve

Anoka
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RESPEC
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,986
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to continue and finalize Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model construction and complete the calibration/validation process. The project will add representation of point source discharges to the model, compile flow and water quality data for the purposes of calibration and validation. The end result will be an HSPF watershed model that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs.

Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
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LimnoTech
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,696
Fund Source

The goal of the project is the development of an overall strategy for reduction of turbidity/TSS, with sets of sediment reduction initiatives and actions for various sources, to address the Minnesota River Turbidity TMDL and the South Metro Mississippi River TSS TMDL.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
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McLeod County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To collect and collate historical photographs, memorabilia, and personal stories in order to preserve the history of the McLeod County Fair. The fair will seek out stories and request historical items, for loan or donation, to the McLeod County Agricultural Association. During the 140th anniversary of the fair, visitors can view a history display. Funds will be used to preserve a piece of Minnesota's heritage in a single collection, while educating the public with displays.

McLeod
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Wright SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$139,700
Fund Source

The Wright SWCD applied for, and received, a Soil Erosion and Drainage Law Compliance grant in 2015. This grant was used to inventory Joint Ditch 15 (JD 15) for areas that could benefit from the installation of Side Inlet Control Structures (SICS) and vegetated buffer strips (buffers). JD 15 is known to have areas of significant erosion that effect both benefited landowners as well as a number of impaired waters downstream. The impaired downstream waters include Sucker Creek, Cokato Lake, and the North Fork Crow River. The JD 15 Inventory was completed during the summer of 2015.

Wright
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Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,522
To research and write two articles about Jewish migration and denominations for MNopedia: Minnesota Encyclopedia.
Dakota
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Middle-Snake-Tamarac Rivers WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$144,000
Fund Source
Polk
Recipient
La Crescent Area Historical Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,826

To design and install interpretive signage about the first land survey in Houston County in 1832.

Houston
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Wabasha Public Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,556

In a collaborative effort between the Wabasha Public Library and the Wabasha County Museum the history of the Wabasha area was interpreted in a weekend event focusing on the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and its impact on the "Half-Breed Tract", a reservation of children of mixed Indian and European ancestry. The 1851 signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and the resulting settlement and tourism were analyzed through the perspectives of the native Dakota, the Euro-American tourist and the newly arrived settlers from 1851 to 1861.

Wabasha
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1854 Treaty Authority
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,692

To evaluate and survey archaeological resources by the Grand Portage and Bois Forte Tribal Historic Preservation Offices.

St. Louis
Recipient
Brown County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,026
To hire qualified project staff to research the availability of Brown County depredation claims from 1863.
Brown
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Canton Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fillmore
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City of North St. Paul
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,950
To hire a consultant to conduct an intensive architectural survey of 1880s residential properties in North St. Paul.
Ramsey
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City of Coleraine
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,630
Itasca
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Dakota County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,180

To hire a qualified historian to research Minnesota history during 1917-1918 in preparation for upcoming exhibits.

Statewide
Dakota
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Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$306,341
At the spring 2017 centennial of the American entry into World War I, this major exhibit will explore the tumultuous American scene at a critical moment in history as the nation flexes its muscles internationally and struggles to reconcile conflicting values at home.
Statewide
Recipient
Kasson Alliance for Restoration Inc
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$87,588
Dodge
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University of St. Thomas
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,800
Ramsey
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Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Partner: History Theatre

Statewide
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Minnesota Discovery Center
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,076

779 audiotapes of Senate committee hearings were converted digital format, and a web page was created to access the online versions via the Legislative Web Site.  As a result, complete digital access of committee hearings and floor debates are available for both bodies back to 2004.  Important legislative debate is available to Internet users, regardless of the time of day or their locations.

Ramsey
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Minnesota State University-Mankato
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,000
Fund Source

MSU-Mankato Water Resources Center in the Mankato area will provide conventional pollutant monitoring at the following sites: Beauford Ditch, Big Cobb River, Blue Earth River, Le Sueur River (3), Little Cobb River, Minnesota River (2), Watonwan River.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Steele
Waseca
Watonwan
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Minnesota Public Television Association (MPTA)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,237,000

This funding is for production and acquisiton grants in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Section 129D.18. The following MPTA stations received funding in FY2010:

Statewide
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,663,000

Per Minnesota Laws, 2011, 1st Special Session, Chapter 6, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 6, this funding is for grants to the Minnesota Public Television Association for production and acquisition grants accordance to Minnesota Statutes, section 129D.18.

KSMQ Public Television, Austin

KAWE Lakeland Public Television, Brainered/Bemidji

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$495,000

The Science Museum of Minnesota’s work with schools is a continuation of efforts undertaken in the FY12-13 biennium, generously funded by an appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. With previous Legacy funds, we undertook a museum-wide evaluation of our offerings to schools and how we could better serve our student and educator audiences.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,000

As a core to Como’s mission on education, updating the aging interpretive signage and adding interactive and technology based interpretive and hands-on experiences is important. The cost to develop, design and produce these items is needed for African Hoofstock, Large Cats and the Japanese Gardens. The displays will demonstrate Como Zoo’s commitment to world-wide conservation measures.

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Minnesota Film and TV Board
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$495,000

Under Minn. Laws 2011, 1st Special Session, Chapter 6, Article 4, Section 2, Subd. 6, the Minnesota Film and TV Board was appropriated $500,000 the first year and $500,000 the second year for grants to Minnesota residents to create film or television productions that promote Minnesota's cultural heritage and for the film production jobs program under Minnesota Statutes, section 116U.26. This appropriation is available until June 30, 2015.

Statewide
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$346,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$346,500

Upon learning of State support for the Rochester project, the Museum implemented changes to our governance, staffing and operations structure to effectively expand our capacity. Initial exhibit, program, IT, marketing and communication plans have been launched for the opening. The Museum recently signed a lease agreement on a 5,000 square foot space that will provide engaging learning experiences for up to 30,000 anticipated visitors in the first year of operation. The address of the new Museum is 1643 ½ North Broadway, River Center plaza, MN 55906 and the new phone number is 507-218-3100.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$148,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$148,500

Per Minnesota Laws, 2011, 1st Special Session, Chapter 6, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 6, is for grants to the Minnesota Children's Museum. These amounts are for arts, arts education, and arts access and to preserve Minnesota's history and cultural heritage