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Veterans in the Arts
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,988
Arts Learning
Hennepin
Recipient
Linda A. Bruning
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,540

To "create, perform and respond" an original theater piece including: acting, writing, music, visual arts, dance on the concept "true heroism;" the piece will incorporate core curriculum areas of arts, social studies, English, computer science, carpentry, and online education

Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Funding for the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival, an annual event presenting feature films, documentaries, and shorts from around the world on themes of Jewish culture and identity. The festival will take place at Sabes Jewish Community Center in April 20

Hennepin
Recipient
The Peoples Cook
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,852
Arts Access
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Theater Mu, Inc. AKA Mu Performing Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Mu Performing Arts will produce Mu Daiko with Hanayui in its first official taiko tour, bringing Mu's distinct Midwest expression of taiko alongside the best from Japan to greater Minnesota audiences.
Ramsey
Recipient
21st Century Community Learning Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,407

Rhonda Fueston Residency

Nobles
Recipient
Mixed Precipitation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,950
Mixed Precipitation will present fourteen free site-specific performances, in a new forms picnic operettas a hybrid opera accompanied by a five-course menu, created for outdoor performance in community garden spaces in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Hennepin
Recipient
West Side Theater Project
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Professional theater artists will work for and with the West Side neighborhood of St. Paul to create a community-engaged theater production in which community stories inspire the script and score, and professional and community actors share the stage.
Ramsey
Recipient
Eastside Children's Summer Program
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,473
Given Minnesota students choose the arts and science as electives instead of having them as core curriculum, the purpose of this grant is to engage and enrich the lives of lifelong learners through effectively integrating the arts and sciences in our program.
Ramsey
Recipient
Lazy Hmong Woman Productions
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,500
To make theater accessible to the non-English speaking Hmong community, we will mount the play "Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman"in Hmong and nurture the talents of nontraditional Hmong actors.
Ramsey
Recipient
Public Interest, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,625
To increase and diversify participation by new immigrant and communities of color in the outreach programs of Speaking of Home-St. Paul, a major public art project in the skyways of downtown St. Paul.
Hennepin
Recipient
Pan Asian Arts Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,500
Koom Siab United Hearts--a year-round Pan-Asian dance learning project--provides diverse Asian dance classes to disadvantaged Asian American youth to acquire knowledge/skills, and participate at Koom Siab Pan Asian dance performance.
Ramsey
Recipient
La Crescent-Hokah Community Education
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
A performance and student workshop for the residents of La Crescent and surrounding areas featuring the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Houston
Recipient
Minnesota Music Coalition
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$87,990
The Minnesota Music Coalition will produce and promote a statewide tour of performances and workshops featuring established and emerging musicians and bands working in fine arts presenting venues.
Ramsey
Recipient
Golden Valley Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Golden Valley Historical Society hired a licensed and bonded professional hazardous waste materials removal company to properly abate asbestos and improve public safety at the Golden Valley History Museum.

Hennepin
Recipient
Itasca County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,150
To hire a contractor for asbestos abatement in the museum's archival storage area.
Itasca
Recipient
American Swedish Institute
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$92,614
To gain intellectual and physical control over its collection in order to provide better public access to Minnesota's Swedish heritage.
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$126,534

Partner Organization: Council of Asian Pacific Minnesotans.

Statewide
Recipient
Marine Restoration Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,389

75 photographs were selected from among thousands that were taken by John W.G. Dunn of the St. Croix river valley between the 1890's and 1941. The Marine Restoration Society contracted with Tomy O'Brien Jr. to review all Dunn photographs and to identify those photographs that were best deserving of greater historical interpretation. The locations of the photographs were researched, a list with information for each photograph was compiled and the selected photos were geocoded to aid future researchers.

Washington
Recipient
USGS
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$594,000

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U of MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Becker
Cass
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Recipient
U of MN - Duluth NRRI
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$585,000

Large deposits of copper, nickel, cobalt, and other minerals in northeastern Minnesota could provide huge economic and employment benefits to the state while becoming an important source of important metals for the country. However, the mining required to extract them could have significant water quality impacts in a region that includes the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness and other environmentally sensitive watersheds.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,739
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$148,900
Fund Source

This project will promulgate a nitrate water quality standard to address aquatic life toxicity, and gather information needed to support the development of total nitrogen (N) loading reduction strategies for Minnesota’s waters and also address Minnesota’s contribution to marine water hypoxia. Project will also develop a framework for a watershed nitrogen planning aid that can be used to optimize selection of Best Management Practice (BMP) systems for reducing nitrogen.

Statewide
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$262,000


PROJECT OVERVIEW

Statewide
Recipient
Ampers
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,623,500

Ampers member stations are producing a variety of programs, documentaries and musical specials on Minnesota's arts, historical, and cultural heritage. The stations are also offering free public performances. The on-air projects are aired on member stations, shared with other stations in the network and archived on station websites and the Ampers website: www.ampers.org

Statewide
Recipient
Citizens for Backus/AB
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,534

To improve security of a National Register building by adding eleven cameras to the security system.

Citizens for Backus/AB added eleven cameras to a basic five camera security system, replaced locks and updated the electronic entry of the historic E.W. Backus Jr. High School, now known as the Backus Community Center in International Falls.

Koochiching
Recipient
City of Stephen
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The book, "Backward Glances" by Lawrence Sunsdahl (1982), about the history of Stephen, Minnesota was updated and republished. It is a collection of articles printed in newspapers and periodicals over a twenty-two year period (1989-2010) about the area and its residents. The author, a lifelong resident of Stephen, had compiled information gathered from newspapers, microfilm and personal contacts.

Marshall
Recipient
Bakken Museum
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,975

An interpretive exhibit and program plan, "Dakota Native Plant Garden", was designed and developed for outdoor display. The exhibit uses the stories from several generations of a Dakota family who originally lived along the shore of Mde Waka Ska (Lake Calhoun). The stories reveal the ethno-history of the Bakken's restored wetland and prairie. This area contains more than 40 species of native plants historically used for medicinal and cultural purposes.

Hennepin
Recipient
The Basilica Landmark
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Thirty monitors were installed to measure moisture readings in the upper reaches of the Basilica of St. Mary. Restoration projects had been put on hold due to previous water infiltration and the damage that was caused by saturation of masonry walls and ceiling plaster. Such infiltration takes a long time to dry. There were concerns that plaster was continuing to absorb moisture from the attic insulation or the masonry walls.

Hennepin
Recipient
Lake County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Beaver Bay Trail including trailhead amenities.

Recipient
Arrowhead Regional Development Commission
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,974
To hire qualified professionals to design and install historical markers pertaining to the mid-North Shore region of Minnesota.
Lake
Recipient
Becker SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,710
Fund Source

The Becker County Drainage Ditch Inventory and Inspection Project is a collaborative, multifaceted approach to develop a GIS-based drainage ditch inventory database system, inventory the current conditions of judicial ditches and adjacent land, and target and prioritize portions of each ditch system for restorative or protective measures.

Becker
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Bees play a key role in ecosystem function and in agriculture, including more than one hundred U.S. crops either need or benefit from pollinators. However, bee pollinators are in dramatic decline in Minnesota and throughout the country. One of the potential causes appears to be a scarcity of bee-friendly flowers, particularly in urban areas, which is leading to nutritional deficiencies, chronic exposure to pesticides, and debilitating diseases and parasites.

Statewide
Recipient
City of Hanover
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

to construct the Beebe Lake Regional Trail, which is a new 3.8 mile bicycle and pedestrian trail along CSAH 34 in the cities of Hanover and St. Michael

Wright
Recipient
Morris, City of
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source
This grant to the City of Morris provides public improvements for the beneficial use of wastewater effluent, where beneficial use is defined as the use of stormwater or wastewater effluent from a publicly owned wastewater treatement plant to replace the use of groundwater.
Stevens
Recipient
City of Elk River
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$285,087
Fund Source

Great River Energy (GRE) operates a power plant in the City of Elk River which generates electricity by incinerating municipal solid wastes. The plant is located proximate to the City of Elk River wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). This project will result in a corresponding reduction of groundwater use by GRE.

Sherburne
Recipient
Sleepy Eye Area Foundation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The Sleepy Eye Area foundation retained the architectural services of Engan and Associates Architects to develop a reuse plan with construction estimates for the restoration of the Berg Hotel.

Brown
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
To fabricate and install a historical marker that provides public access to the story of the John Bergquist House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Clay
Recipient
City of Stillwater
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,900
To hire qualified consultants to conduct a reuse study of the Moritz Bergstein Shoddy Mill and Warehouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Washington
Recipient
Wright County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,400,000
Fund Source

Acquire 80 acres to expand Bertram Chain of Lakes Regional Park.