All Projects

4966 Results for
Recipient
Chisago SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$230,526
Fund Source

The Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes Stormwater Retrofit Assessment has assessed 54 small watersheds for the optimal locations for best management practices. A long list of Best Management Practices has been identified, the next step is to design and install the most cost effective projects.

Chisago
Recipient
Friends of St. Rose, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,800
To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the Church of St. Rose of Lima (Kenyon), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Goodhue
Recipient
City of Fergus Falls
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

The Fergus Falls Heritage Preservation commission, in cooperation with the Otter Tail County Historical Society, produced a brochure with the help of a qualified historian. The brochure consists of photographs, descriptions and maps to locate historically significant buildings and homes in the city. It was designed for use as a self-guided tour of the city's historical and architectural landmarks. The 40-page brochure is available through the Otter Tail County Historical Society, the Fergus Falls Heritage Preservation Commission and the Fergus Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Minnesota Genealogical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,670

This is the third installment of a project to purchase microfilmed Minnesota city directories to add to the Minnesota Genealogical Society's research collection. Eighty-one rolls of microfilm, covering the post-1930's period, were acquired this time.

Ramsey
Recipient
Heritage Group North, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,975

To implement a self-guided walking tour of the city of Pine River, Heritage Group North Inc. purchased thirteen kiosk displays and installed them at various historic building sites. Each kiosk, made of recycled plastic, displays historic information and photographs from an earlier period. In addition to the kiosks, a tri-fold brochure was designed showing the locations of the walking tour. They are available at the Pine River Chamber Information Center. The walking tour serves to remind residents and visitors of the inherent history to be found in many of the city's structures.

Cass
Recipient
Minnetonka, City of
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,200
Fund Source

The City of Minnetonka and its residents highly value the water resources within the community, which include approximately ten lakes, four streams, and hundreds of wetlands. The City has been progressive in protecting these resources through policies and management strategies, and now wants to increase their on-the-ground efforts in protecting and improving water quality. The City hopes to conduct targeted watershed assessments for fourteen selected priority water bodies to identify and optimize the type and locations of Best Management Practices (BMPs) to be installed.

Hennepin
Recipient
United States Geological Survey
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

Duluth area streams received over 10 inches of rainfall on June 19 and June 20, 2012. This "500 year event" provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to further understand sediment movement and stream channel alterations due to an event of this magnitude.

St. Louis
Recipient
City of Cambridge
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Develop a fishing pier, picnic shelters, restrooms and parking in 154-acre park.

Recipient
City of Paynesville
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,494,362
Fund Source

The primary objective of this workplan is to demonstrate the ability of the City of Paynesville to meet the current and future wastewater treatment needs and achieve beneficial use of wastewater effluent, to replace the use of groundwater.

Stearns
Recipient
Kids Voting Minnesota, Learning Law and Democracy Foundation, and YMCA Youth in Government
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,976
To digitize documents from 36 Northfield _area civic organizations and make them publicly accessible via the Northfield History Collaborative.
Rice
Recipient
Learning Law and Democracy Foundation
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
The Minnesota Historical Society is administering grants to organizations to support civics education programs for Minnesota's youth. Civics education provides students with an understanding of the democratic foundation of our national, state, and local government and constitutional principles. Programs run by Kids Voting St. Paul, the Learning Law and Democracy Foundation, and the YMCA has been funded with this money.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
The mission of the Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force is to promote and share the rich history of the American Civil War and Minnesota's connection to it. With support from the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, the task force oversees the development of statewide, balanced activities commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War and Minnesota's involvement in it and the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.
Statewide
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (U of M Libraries)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,920
To organize and describe 1,600 linear feet of archival materials documenting the history of the GLBT community in Minnesota.
Statewide
Recipient
Emmons & Oliver Resources (EOR)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
The goal of this project is to develop a phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for St. Clair Lake.
Becker
Recipient
Funding is awarded to projects selected by the evaluation committee. This is a competitive process.
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$205,436
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$259,586
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$609,694
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$622,885
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$894,991
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$993,255
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,135,603
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$959,552
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$691,070
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,050,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,050,000
Fund Source

The  goals of the program are to evaluate the effectiveness of agricultural conservation practices, identify underlying processes that affect water quality, and develop technologies to target critical areas of the landscape. Funded projects provide current and accurate scientific data on the environmental impacts of agricultural practices and help to develop or revise agricultural practices that reduce environmental impacts while maintaining farm profitability.

Statewide
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,075
Fund Source

The nine member Counties and Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) will be able to enhance our effectiveness to provide elevated levels of technical assistance, education and outreach in the areas of urban stormwater, wellhead protection, nutrient management, conservation agronomy, drainage and agricultural best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution in the Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Watonwan River Watersheds.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Forest Lake, City of
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$382,000
Fund Source

The City of Forest Lake will install four biofiltration basins and a wet sedimentation pond to treat stormwater prior to discharge into Clear Lake. Clear Lake is identified as a priority lake within the Rice Creek Watershed District's (RCWD) Watershed Management Plan and does not meet the nutrient goals established by the RCWD. Mid-summer algae blooms are common and occasionally severe enough to impact recreation.

Washington
Recipient
Red Lake Watershed District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,473
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

The overall goal is to develop a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) Report and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Study that will address water quality impairments and maintain or improve water quality throughout the Clearwater River watershed. The study will identify sources of pollutants to the streams and lakes, allocate pollution reduction goals, and prioritize and identify implementation strategies to maintain or improve water quality in key lakes and streams in the watershed.

Beltrami
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Recipient
Clearwater Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,982
Fund Source

This project will provide the assessment of the chemical, physical, biological, and bacteriological integrity of surface waters.

Clearwater
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$196,586
Fund Source

The Q-Lot at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) is an 8 acre (1,000 spaces) gravel and asphalt parking lot. The parking lot's surface is impervious, which means it doesn't allow for rainfall or snow melt to soak into the ground. Instead, the water runs off directly into storm sewers, taking with it sediment, bacteria, automotive fluids and other pollutants which flow straight into the Mississippi River. SCSU staff has frequently witnessed plumes of sediment the color of chocolate milk where the storm sewer discharges into the river.

Stearns
Recipient
Saint Cloud, City of
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,507
Fund Source

The St. Cloud Waste Water Treatment Facility (SCWWTF) is currently conducting long term planning for future biosolids management. The most likely path forward includes dewatering of the digested biosolids, which will produce a supernatant stream with significant phosphorus and ammonia loads that would be returned to the liquids treatment portion of the WWTF. Returning these nutrient loads to the liquids train would result in increases to effluent concentrations, increases in power consumption, or both.

Stearns
Recipient
City of Cokato
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To improve public accessibility at the Cokato Historical Society and better comply with the Americans with Disability Act.
Wright
Recipient
MN Trout Unlimited
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,269,000
Fund Source

This program will restore and/or enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in six coldwater streams located in existing Aquatic Management Areas and one Minnesota State Park. The proposed projects will improve habitat for both game and non-game fish and wildlife species uniquely associated with coldwater trout streams and provide expanded recreational opportunities for Minnesota anglers.

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Goodhue
Recipient
City of Coleraine
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,926
To replace the furnace and air conditioner with high-efficienty units and repair roof on the Coleraine Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Itasca
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,443
A vital part of the Minnesota Historical Society's mission is preserving and making available a wide range of artifacts and materials chronicling our state's history. ACHF support is allowing the Society to create a more comprehensive legacy for future generations through the acquisition of important Minnesota artwork, books and manuscripts.
 
Art: 
Arthur Allie, Street Corner on W. 7th Street in St.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota's Historic Northwest
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,876

Twelve northwestern MN museums joined together to form the Minnesota's Historic Northwest group. The group, which includes: Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Norman, Lake of the Woods, Roseau, Pennington, Red Lake, Polk County Historical Societies, the East Polk heritage Center and the McIntosh Arts and Heritage Center collaborated to purchase supplies and to conduct workshops about artifact storage.

Clearwater
Recipient
Afton Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The AHS hired part-time, temporary staff to input data into their PastPerfect collections management system. This was Phase II of a cataloging project and the data had been gathered during Phase I of the project. AHS exceeded their goal by cataloging more than the estimated 1393 objects.

Washington
Recipient
Pipestone County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,600

The PCHS updated PastPerfect Museum software from 3.0 to 5.0. This has improved the overall management and public accessibility of the collections.

Specifically, the software has made the Schoolhouse and the Military Uniform collections more searchable, traceable and available to researchers. Staff also have more complete information about what objects are housed in the Museum.

Pipestone
Recipient
Beltrami County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,607

An accurate, up-to-date digital catalog of records was created when the Beltrami County Historical Society purchased and implemented PastPerfect software to monitor and inventory it's collections. A contractor was hired to oversee the project. Three interns were trained to assist with data entry, inventory methods and artifact photography. Paper accession records were entered into the database and missing data on previously digitized records was inserted.

Beltrami
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District - The Landing
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,750

Building on past efforts to catalog collections, the Three Rivers Park District continued the assessment and inventory of collections at The Landing in Shakopee. Inventories of 1, 015 artifacts from six (6) individual structures: the Wilkie House; the Graffenstadt House; the Kahl House; the Harms House; the Bank, and the Boesel "Red" Barn were conducted. All artifact information was recorded by PastPerfect software.

Scott
Recipient
Afton Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,990
To upgrade collections catalog from paper to PastPerfect Museum Software
Washington
Recipient
AirSpace Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,501
To hire a qualified professional to assess historically significant collections and write a collections management policy.
Hennepin
Recipient
Proctor Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified professional to assess historically significant collections and write a collections management policy.
St. Louis
Recipient
Steele County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,772
To improve care and management of collections through proper storage.
Steele
Recipient
Polish Cultural Institute
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,997
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust using PastPerfect Museum Software.
Winona
Recipient
Stearns History Museum and Research Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,946
To improve care and management of archival and small three-dimensional collections through proper storage.
Stearns
Recipient
Polish Cultural Institute
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,985
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Winona
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Bell Museum of Natural History)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,802
To improve collections care and management through proper storage.
Hennepin
Recipient
NWA History Centre
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,527
To hire a qualified consultant to prepare a collections management policies and procedures document.
Hennepin