All Projects

4963 Results for
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
The O'Shaughnessy at Saint Catherine University AKA The O'Shaughnessy
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,000

Arts Tour Minnesota

Anoka
Carlton
Carver
Chisago
Cook
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
St. Louis
Washington
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
Pan Asian Arts Alliance
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,800
Arts Learning
Anoka
Becker
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Scott
Stearns
Todd
Washington
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
Sauk River WD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,715
Fund Source

The Ashley Creek and Adley Creek Inventory Project will involve desk top analysis and a field scale inventory of riparian areas to determine priority areas to install erosion control Best Management Practices and vegetative buffers for nutrient reduction. Assessments will also be made for potential E.coli bacteria sources. Inventory data will be shared with local partners to further develop an implementation plan to address nutrient loading and the listed impairments on each creek.

Stearns
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
U of MN
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000

There is a critical need to understand how our natural resources are already responding to climate change in order to develop tools for projecting natural resource responses into the future and to devise plans for actions that can be taken in reaction to observed and predicted changes. Phenology – the timing of seasonal biological events such as budburst, flowering, bird migration, and leaf coloring – provides a tested indicator of climate change response by plants and animals.

Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,000

Over a three-month period in 2010, approximately five million barrels of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico causing extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats and resulting in significant losses in fish and wildlife populations. A number of Minnesota's migratory bird species spend parts of their lives in the areas impacted by the spill and impacts on their populations in the state could become evident over time.

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

PROJECT OVERVIEW

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

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Becker
Cass
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
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
City of Duluth (Planning Division)
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,200
To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a survey of J. J. Astor Park, Duluth.
St. Louis
Recipient
Stearns History Museum
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,968
To hire a qualified consultant to conduct an audience analysis for Stearns History Museum.
Stearns
Recipient
Washington County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,952
To hire a qualified consultant to conduct an audience analysis for Washington County Historical Society.
Washington
Recipient
Minnesota Newspaper Foundation
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,600
To hire a qualified consultant to conduct an audience analysis of visitors during the State Fair.
Ramsey
Recipient
Austin, City of
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$496,931
Fund Source

Construct collection system for unsewered area and connect to Austin

Mower
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
St. Croix Watershed Research Station
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,795
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,647
Fund Source

The primary goal of this project is to analyze of dated sediment cores to reconstruct changes in the lake condition over the last 150 years. This will be done using multiple lines of evidence including biogeochemistry, sediment accumulation, and diatom and algal remains as biological indicators.

Koochiching
Recipient
Dorothy Molter Foundation and Museum
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,980
To gain intellectual and physical control of archival materials held in public trust.
St. Louis
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
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$144,344

Bdote's vision is that students will develop a love of lifelong learning, language, and cultural fluency, the skills and education to determine their own future, and a commitment to give back to family, community, and Nation.The short-term goal of the project is to complete development of a K-3rd grade Ojibwe and Dakota Core Curriculum Unit designed for use in immersion settings.

Hennepin
Fund Source

This project installed the landscaping around the new trail center at Bear Head Lake State Park, which was completed in 2014.

St. Louis
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