All Projects

4966 Results for
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source

This program is designed to attract new audiences to Minnesota State Parks. Primarily young families and young adults that often look beyond state parks for their means of recreation, along with youth looking for an “extreme” or “adventure” experience. Programs will offer participants the opportunity to experience rock climbing, outdoors on real rock. This program targets the state’s climbing parks (Blue Mounds, Interstate and Tettegouche State Parks) by offering one “I Can Climb!” - rock climbing experience - every month from June to August at each of the climbing parks.

Statewide
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source

Many people are interested in paddling but don’t have the equipment or expertise to head out on their own. The “I Can Paddle!” program is designed to provide participants with first-hand opportunities to learn basic skills necessary for planning and taking a safe, fun and efficient canoe trip on both Minnesota’s lakes and rivers.

Statewide
Recipient
Depot Preservation Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$107,280
To repair and restore the interior and exterior of the Canadian National Depot (Baudette Depot), listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
City of Warroad
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,681
To repair and repaint exterior wood surfaces, replace windows and restore front door for the Canadian National Depot in Warroad, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Roseau
Recipient
Trust for Public Land
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,780,000
Fund Source

Permanently protected 496 acres (142% of our protect goal) within the Cannon River watershed; areas include wetlands, prairies, Big Woods forest, and shallow lake shoreline. This has reversed habitat loss, improved watershed function, and increased access to public lands.

Rice
Recipient
LimnoTech
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,427
Fund Source
The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate, and validate an HSPF watershed model for the Cannon River Watershed.
Dakota
Goodhue
Le Sueur
Rice
Steele
Waseca
Recipient
City of Northfield and Dundas
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$408,000
Fund Source

Acquire 105 acres along the Cannon River and development of a biking trail, picnic shelter and shore fishing.

Recipient
Caponi Art Park
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,990

Caponi Art Park contracted with the Dakota County Historical society to survey and assess the general condition of the many materials in their collection documenting the history of the organization and it's founder, Anthony Caponi. As a result the Caponi Art Park organization now knows the size of the collection, the staff are properly trained and professional systems and policies have been implemented that document and present an informative, usable collection.

Dakota
Recipient
Walker West Music Academy
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,384
Funding to purchase three computer workstations and the related equipment necessary for students to transcribe, compose, and record music.
Ramsey
Recipient
Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Funding to replace musical instruments and uniforms in response to the organization’s growth.
Ramsey
Recipient
Les Jolies Petites School of Dance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to purchase and install a facility sprung floor and to add a dressing room.
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Brass, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to purchase two vibraphones, one marimba and one drum set to replace and/or supplement the existing inventory of percussion instruments.
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Sunshine Dance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding to purchase dance costumes and a dance carpet to enhance artist development and performances.
Ramsey
Recipient
Rain Taxi, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for a small-scale remodel of a space needed to expand off-site storage capacity.
Hennepin
Recipient
Sounds of Hope, Ltd.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,650
Funding to purchase a vehicle with sufficient towing capacity to support the organization’s ongoing and expanded programming.
Ramsey
Recipient
Studio 206
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,623
Funding to purchase lighting, sound, computer equipment, and light masking to provide a higher degree of technical support for the artists using the space.
Hennepin
Recipient
Teatro del Pueblo
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,134
Funding to replace and upgrade the organization’s technology system including the purchase of a desktop and laptop computer, and to work with a consultant on a server upgrade.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Red Wing
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,000
To hire a qualified and experienced historian to prepare a Historic Structure Report for the G. A. Carlson Lime Kiln and a Cultural Landscape Report for Barn Bluff, both listed in the National Register of Historic Places, that will guide future preservation projects.
Goodhue
Recipient
Carver County Watershed Management Organization
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$174,732
Fund Source

Carver County has completed a Fecal Coliform Total Maximum Daily Load(TMDL) and Implementation Plan (IP).

Carver
Recipient
Carver County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

This project will increase the ability of the Carver County Water Management Organization (CCWMO) to approach local community partners and fund projects that treat stormwater runoff at the source instead of treating stormwater downstream at a regional pond or through other large scale best management practices (BMPs). The CCWMO will target three geographic areas that have demonstrated strong community involvement, effective partner relationships, and support for the goal of improving water quality of locally impaired waters or regionally significant water body.

Carver
Recipient
Carver County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,307
Fund Source

Carver County Staff will monitor Silver Creek at station S000-843 following the basic monitoring regime. S000-843 is located in the Lower Minnesota subwatershed in southeastern Carver County. The monitoring will be conducted from 2014 to 2015 and include 13 site visits in 2014; collecting TSVS, TSS, Total P, Ammonia-N, TKN, NO2+NO3, Sulfate, Chloride, and Hardness as CaCO3 ten times. E.coli will be collected nine times in 2014.

Carver
Fund Source

This project saw the electrification of 20 campsites in Cascade State Park. RV camping is extremely popular, and the North Shore has very few electrified campsites within our state park system. These new electric sites satisfy some of the incredible demand for this amenity.

Cook
Recipient
Ramsey-Washington Metro WD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District (RWMWD) will improve water quality in Casey Lake and ultimately Kohlman Lake through the installation of approximately 25 rain gardens on priority properties identified as part of the Casey Lake Urban Stormwater Retrofit Assessment completed by Ramsey Conservation District (RCD) in 2011.

Ramsey
Recipient
Cass SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,862
Fund Source

This 3-part project is developing and installing shoreline buffer projects on Ten Mile Lake, and the Roosevelt, Lawrence, Leavitt Lake area (RALALA).An additional part will correct roadway erosion contributing to sedimentation and water quality degradation on Buxton Road between McKeowen and Mann Lakes. Woodrow Township will work with Cass County SWCD/ESD and adjacent landowners to construct sedimentation basins and rain gardens and restructure the roadbed by reducing the slope to eliminate erosion and sedimentation.

Cass
Recipient
Richfield Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,620

Preservation of a historically important collection of photographs, taken for the purposes of insurance underwriting in the mid-1950's, was the goal of this project. Appropriate storage was researched and determined. Archival grade sleeves and storage boxes were obtained. An inventory of all photographs was performed, cataloged and entered into a professional software database. Digital imaging of the original photographic prints provides researchers with a sustainable alternative to viewing the prints.

Hennepin
Recipient
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,318
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Renville
Recipient
Cook County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,580
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Cook
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,990
To improve collections care and management through proper storage.
Washington
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,000
To catalog the Maurice Stans collection in order to gain physical and intellectual control over the collection and offer it to the public in new ways.
Scott
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$136,300
Fund Source

Crow Wing SWCD is building off its success with Project Recharge and expanded the program to target Gull and Big Trout lakes. The SWCD selected these two lakes because of their declining transparency readings, 25 interested landowners, 2 adjacent resorts, and the community support, past partnerships, valuable fisheries, high ratio of forested land, and low ratio of impervious area in the lakeshed.The SWCD worked with partners to find willing landowners and businesses to complete the following types of projects:Swap Rock for Native Stock: Implement bioengineering to stabilize shorelines.

Crow Wing
Recipient
Scott Watershed Management Organization
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,832
Fund Source

This project targets stabilizing 900+ feet of eroding shoreline in the Cedar Lake Farms Regional Park converting it into a healthy native buffer on Cedar Lake.The project addresses phosphorus loading by reducing erosion from unstable shoreline banks adjacent to Cedar Lake. This will increase infiltration, intercept upland runoff, and stabilize the soil at the water's edge to decrease erosion and the addition of phosphorus into the lake. It is estimated that a shoreline stabilization at Cedar Lake will reduce 12-25 lbs/ year phosphorus depending on the regression rate.

Scott
Recipient
Aitkin SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,011
Fund Source

Cedar and Farm Island are large recreational lakes located in the Aitkin/Brainerd Lakes area. Both lakes are showing significant downward trends in water clarity. The trend coincides with watershed development that increases water runoff. This project seeks to reverse that trend before these lakes degrade further and become impaired. Changing land uses now through incentives is a very cost-effective way to manage these lakes.

Aitkin
Recipient
RESPEC
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000
Fund Source
There are two main goals of this Cedar Basin HSPF project, A. Overall development of the HSPF model in the Cedar Basin of Minnesota; and B. Shell Rock River nutrient, DO , impairment modeling and TMDL completion.
Dodge
Freeborn
Mower
Steele
Recipient
City of Grand Rapids
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The City of Grand Rapids replaced 26 existing light bulbs and fixtures with more energy efficient bulbs and fixtures that more closely resemble the original ones installed in 1895 in the Old Central School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 

Itasca
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

In 2010, Legislation allocated Clean Water Fund (CWF) dollars to the Anoka Conservation District to initiate an 11 county metro subwatershed assessment program. The purpose of subwatershed assessments is to improve water quality, increase groundwater recharge and reduce runoff volumes. These goals are achieved by identifying opportunities in the subwatersheds most contributing to the degradation of the high priority water bodies and developing designs for Best Management Practices (BMPs) that treat stormwater runoff.

Chisago
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the Charles P. Noyes Cottage, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000

To prepare a Historic Structure Report for Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

St. Louis
Recipient
Chicano Latino Affairs Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

In May 2009, the Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities Center and four state councils-the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, the Council on Black Minnesotans, the Chicano Latino Affairs Council, and the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans-to collaboratively create new programs and events that celebrates and preserves the artistic, historical, and cultural heritages of the communities represented by each council. 

Ramsey
Recipient
Chicano Latino Affairs Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$141,114

The Latino population in Minnesota has grown dramatically since 1980, both in the Twin Cities and in Greater Minnesota, in cities such as Worthington, Willmar, St. James, Moorhead, Melrose, Long Prairie and Albert Lea. This project involves interviewing Chicano-Latino elders and community leaders from approximately a dozen Latino population centers in the state.

Statewide
Recipient
Chippewa County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$286,113
Fund Source

This project will complete a comprehensive and sustainable Major Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies report for the Chippewa River, its tributary streams, and the many lakes in the Chippewa River watershed that is understandable and adoptable by local units of government and residents.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift