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Murray County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,700
Murray
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Regents of the University of Minnesota (Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Blue Earth
Brown
Hennepin
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Hamline University - Center For Global Environmental Education
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,999
To conduct Phase II of research on the History of Environmental Education in Minnesota through oral history transcriptions.
Ramsey
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Minnesota State University, Mankato
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To print and publish a book on the history of Mankato's Wagon Wheel Café and its patrons.
Blue Earth
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Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500
To hire a preservation consultant to improve intellectual control and proper storage of the Clothesline Project collection.
Aitkin
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Winona County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,752

To preserve the one room schoolhouse on the fairgrounds. The Little Red Schoolhouse will need painting, window repair, and electrical upgrades. The Winona County Historical Society will help organize materials for programming and exhibiting.

Funds will also improve lighting in two art exhibit buildings.

Winona
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MIGIZI Communications
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,220
To research the historical evolution of Minneapolis as an urban American Indian center.
Hennepin
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Ely-Winton Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,900
To hire a qualified historian to research and assemble materials concerning the former Burntside River Community
St. Louis
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Minnesota State Public School Orphanage Museum, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,743
To make an oral history collection accessible through copy to modern digital format.
Steele
Recipient
Kandiyohi County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

The Little Red Schoolhouse has a long history in Kanabec County. Built in 1882 for $350, it served as the first schoolhouse for School District No. 2 before finding a home on the fairgrounds. The Little Red Schoolhouse is home to children's art displays and a variety of activities. Funds will provide a new roof, repair the ceiling, and make the necessary adaptations to make the building handicap accessible. Additionally, period costumes will be purchased and a teacher will be hired for programming.

Kandiyohi
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Chicano Latino Affairs Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,500

The Chicano Latino Affairs Council in collaboration with the Minnesota Humanities Center will use funding to address the education challenges and opportunities faced by Latino students. The central theme and core value is “culture and language matter,” that culture and language is an asset and not a liability. A research project will focus on identifying specific strengths in Latino culture that improve education engagement.

Statewide
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St. Olaf College
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,976
Statewide
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Isle Harbor Township
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$158,000
Fund Source

to construct 1.10 miles of new trail to connect Father Hennepin State Park trail system to the Soo Line Trail System

Mille Lacs
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ISD 318 American Indian Services
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,746

The primary project of the Bagidinise Project is to add wood to the fire of learning and revitalization of the Ojibwe language sparked by the Ishkodeke Project. Short term goals are to continue to create high school level curriculum for two more Ojibwe language classes, Ojibwe III and IV, to expand the Ojibwe I offering by an additional section.

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Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
To document in 12 oral history interviews the experiences of the crew of the Hjemkomst on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of ship's voyage.
Clay
Recipient
Carleton College
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
To do preservation work at the Thorstein Veblen Farmstead National Historic Landmark, located near Nerstrand, in Rice County, Minnesota, that will provide urgently needed stabilization and preservation of three out-buildings at the farmstead, including the original small barn, the large hay barn, and the granary.
Rice
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Golden Valley Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,949

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

Hennepin
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Todd County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$291,890
Fund Source

This project will inventory and conduct compliance inspections on Subsurface Treatment Systems (SSTS) around eight lakes in Todd County. Lakes to be inventoried include Big Sauk Lake, Big Swan Lake, Little Osakis Lake, Fairy Lake, Lily Lake, Long Lake, Little Birch Lake and Moose Lake. Approximately 1,200 parcels will receive compliance inspections. Systems that fail to meet standards will be brought into compliance using procedures available in rule and ordinance.

Todd
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,369
Fund Source

This project will increase awareness about outdoor recreation opportunities at Minnesota state parks and trails among underrepresented groups by creating handicap-accessible, touch-screen kiosks, with information in multiple languages, and placing the kiosks in high-traffic, family-oriented locations.

Hennepin
Ramsey
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Historic Saint Paul
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,410
To adapt historical content from established paper-based tour brochures for the web and mobile applications for greater public access.
Ramsey
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Ramsey County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$875,000
Fund Source

Vadnais-Snail Lake Regional Park. Construct road & trail improvements; develop separated off-road bituminous trail, trailhead and parking. Areas.

Ramsey
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St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$780,000
Fund Source

Project to include trail improvements between T.H. 61 to Bruce Vento Trail including design, engineering, demolition, grading, stormwater management, paving, landscaping and retaining wall construction as required.

Ramsey
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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

To hire a qualified professional to translate nineteeth-century phenology journals from southern Minnesota.

Fillmore
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Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,624
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,624

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Traverse des Sioux Library System (TdS) is a federated regional public library system providing central services located in southcentral Minnesota.

Blue Earth
Brown
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
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Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$111,208
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$111,054

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Blue Earth
Brown
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
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Traverse County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To enhance Traverse County Fair's ability to host arts and cultural heritage programming by constructing a performance space.

Traverse
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City of Henning
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Otter Tail
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South Washington Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,510
Fund Source

This project will help restore and protect two unique resources in southern Washington County - Trout Brook and Lake St. Croix. Previous assessments identified the 100 sites in southern Washington County that contribute the most to the existing excess nutrient problem and declining water quality of Lake St. Croix. Twenty-two of those sites are in the Trout Brook watershed and also contribute to sediment and turbidity that are degrading habitat in this cold-water stream.

Washington
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
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University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
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Hmong Cultural Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500

Editing, retyping and translation of Hmong marriage and funeral ceremony publications.

Washington
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LimnoTech
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,810
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,430
Fund Source

This project will complete a chloride management plan which will lay out a strategy for addressing chloride impacts to our surface waters for the 7-county metropolitan area. This chloride management plan will satisfy EPA requirements for impaired waters, address waters not yet listed, and develop a strategy to protect waters that are currently meeting the water quality standards.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
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Lyon County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$369,000
Fund Source

Acquisition of 40 acres the borders both East and West Twin Lakes adjacent to an existing 28 acre park. Development of a picnic shelter, restrooms and parking.

Lyon
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Arts on Superior
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To research and write a script for a walking tour that will enhance public access to the history of Two Harbors.
Lake
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Duluth Art Institute Association AKA Duluth Art Institute
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,700

Two-Year Operating Support Grant

St. Louis
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Grand Marais Playhouse
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,700

Two-Year Operating Support Grant

Cook
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Lyric Opera of the North
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,700

Two-Year Operating Support Grant

St. Louis
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Matinee Musicale, Inc.
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,134

Two-Year Operating Support Grant

St. Louis
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Northwoods Friends of the Arts
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,318

Two-Year Operating Support Grant

St. Louis
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Lanesboro Historical Preservation Association
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,400

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

Fillmore