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Recipient
The American Swedish Institute
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,942
A Year of Swedish Slöjd at The American Swedish Institute promotes the perpetuation of authentic Swedish craft techniques and materials through adult and youth workshops, a university class, and an exhibit demonstrating art instructors' mastery and student learning.
Hennepin
Recipient
Native Pride Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,732
Native Art Pride will work with students from each of two grade levels - elementary and middle schools levels in residency workshops at five school districts throughout the state.
Scott
Recipient
Armando Gutierrez AKA Armando Gutierrez G
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,423
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Hamline University
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,818
Folk and Traditional Arts
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota AKA Lao Assistance Center
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$64,000
Folk and Traditional Arts
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Nobles
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
Allalaghatta Pavan AKA A Pavan
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,000
Folk and Traditional Arts
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Nirmala Rajasekar
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,525
Folk and Traditional Arts
Benton
Hennepin
Olmsted
Stearns
Recipient
Angela R. Robins
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,443
Folk and Traditional Arts
Cook
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Ross M. Sutter
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,450
Folk and Traditional Arts
Anoka
Crow Wing
Hennepin
Lac qui Parle
Ramsey
Roseau
Washington
Recipient
Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center, Inc.
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,415
Folk and Traditional Arts
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
We Win Institute, Inc.
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,575
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
Delina L. White
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,723
Folk and Traditional Arts
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hennepin
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Mahnomen
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Pennington
Pine
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
Zorongo Flamenco, Inc. AKA Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre and School
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,310
Folk and Traditional Arts
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Iny Asian Dance Theater
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,000
Folk and Traditional Arts
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,175
Folk and Traditional Arts
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
St. Louis
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Kalpulli Ketzalcoatlicue
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,416
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
New Bohemian Arts Cooperative
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,100
Finnish-American artist Diane Jarvi, in cooperation with local historical and educational groups, will establish ongoing community kantele (Finnish folk harp) and Finnish folk music workshops, and initiate Finn Hall style cultural gatherings in Cokato, Minnesota.
Hennepin
Recipient
Comfort Lake Forest Lake Watershed District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,500
Fund Source

The focus of this project will be on protection efforts to maintain or improve the water quality of Forest Lake by reducing phosphorus loads to the lake, especially from storm water. The two main objectives of this project are to compile and make minor updates to a large body of diagnostic work that already exists for Forest Lake, and to develop a comprehensive, site-specific implementation plan for best management practices (BMPs).

Washington
Recipient
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,000,000
Fund Source

Our program/project will protect and maintain intact forest ecosystems through the use of perpetual conservation easements and other tools. This program/project will directly protect approximately 187, 277 acres of forest and wetlands with permanent conservation easements and 1,344 acres with fee acquisition.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Itasca
Kanabec
Kanabec
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000,000
Fund Source

This program funded grants to local units of government and other entities to supplement, not supplant existing budgets. Two categories of grants made available: 1) focus on response to invasive forest pest incidents, 2) focus on planning and preparedness for the arrival of invasive forest pests. The program will also update the state's invasive and exotic tree pest plans.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Minnesota DNR and the Minnesota Forest Resources Council work with forest landowners, managers and loggers to implement a set of voluntary sustainable forest management guidelines that include water quality best management practices (BMPs) to ensure sustainable habitat, clean water, and productive forest soils, all contributing to healthy watersheds. This project will monitor the implementation of these forest management guidelines and BMPs on forested watersheds in MN.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Roseau
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$433,878

The Minnesota Historical Society is collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to build four computer models of Historic Fort Snelling that will illustrate the Fort at various points in its history.

Statewide
Recipient
Hennepin County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

A survey of 15 historic building interiors of the West District of Fort Snelling to supplement the Historic Context Study of the Light Rail Transit Station Area.

Hennepin
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Fund Source

Removal of silt and debris deposited by flooding in March and September of 2010.

Hennepin
Recipient
St. Cloud State University
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,867
To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a survey in an attempt to locate Fort Fair Haven.
Stearns
Recipient
Hennepin County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
To hire qualified professionals to replace the roof on Building 55 at Fort Snelling, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Statewide
Recipient
Shell Rock River Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$655,000
Fund Source

This program will install fish barriers at (3) three locations on in the Watershed District to exclude carp and other rough fish that destroy fish habits and aquatic vegetation and stir-up phosphorous rich sediments that cause algal blooms and cause water quality impairments. The project will allow for effective carp control in an effort to improve fish habitat, fish spawning and habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife. Improving the fish habitat has a clear and measurable residual value in improving water quality and aquatic vegetation.

Freeborn
Recipient
Le Sueur County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$332,800
Fund Source

Le Sueur County has completed water quality assessments of its lakes, which are on the impaired waters list for excess nutrients. The Francis Rays Sakatah Tetonka Lakes Septic Inventory project will complete up to 400 shoreland septic compliance inspections, create an ArcMap GIS layer, create community assessment reports on priority areas and provide education and outreach to the public through informational meetings and website development. The project will also jump-start upgrading non-compliant septic systems.

Le Sueur
Recipient
French Township
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,500
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

St. Louis
Recipient
Hennepin History Museum
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,694
To improve collections care and management through proper storage.
Hennepin
Recipient
Crow Wing County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,742
Fund Source

Monitoring the health of Minnesota rivers is vital in determining, maintaining, and improving the health of the rivers for the environment and public use. The scope of this project is to collect surface water chemistry samples at designated sampling locations during appropriate time periods and at appropriate frequencies during these time periods for 1 year beginning in February 2015. The data collected and submitted to MPCA will provide information necessary to determine stream characteristics and calculate water quality pollutant loads.

Benton
Morrison
Todd
Recipient
United States Geological Survey
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$231,946
Fund Source

Groundwater sample collection and analysis will be conducted for contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) at large subsurface treatment systems (LSTS) and rapid infiltration basins (RIB), using an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methodology. Results from the ELISA analysis will be reported to the MPCA and used to conduct follow-up investigations at a select number of these sites.

Statewide
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,579
Fund Source

This grant will cover all components of water chemistry sampling for pollutant load monitoring at four sites. Of those four sites, two of them are subwatershed sites that will be monitored seasonally and two of them are basin/major watershed sites that will be monitored year round. The Monitoring Coordinator for the Sauk River Watershed District will be responsible for sample collection, data management tasks, attending weekly call in meetings and will coordinate additional help from other staff members and/or interns if needed.

Stearns
Recipient
Crow River Organization of Water
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$111,483
Fund Source

The purpose of this monitoring project is to maintain water quality data collection, build on local partnerships, and develop a better of understanding of what impacts the rivers located in central Minnesota.

Crow Wing
Recipient
Sherburne SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,407
Fund Source

Sherburne Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will subcontract with Clearwater River Watershed District (CRWD) to cooperatively coordinate monitoring of three locations within the Mississippi River (St. Cloud) Watershed. A total of four staff (two from each district) will communicate to ensure that the locations are monitored according to the WPLMN Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for AIS and non AIS sites

Sherburne
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridge over the St. Croix River, This bridge is a jointly owned, with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Burnett County, Wisconsin.

Pine
Recipient
City of Litchfield
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$124,500
To hire qualified professionals to repair masonry on the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Hall, now part of the Meeker County Historical Society's museum facilities, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Meeker
Recipient
Germanic-American Institute
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,162
To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the repair of the roof of the Gardner House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and headquarters of the Germanic-American Institute.
Ramsey
Recipient
The Crossing Arts Alliance
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,308
Operating support
Crow Wing
Recipient
Great River Arts Association
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,605
Operating support
Morrison