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Recipient
Central Lakes College
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

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Recipient
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Morrison
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Morrison County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To provide an engineering assessment of the museum's environmental systems.
Morrison
Recipient
Pine County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To hired a qualified professional to perform an evaluation of the museum's HVAC system.
Pine
Recipient
Minnesota Military Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,293

To hire a qualified museum lighting professional to develop a museum lighting plan.

Statewide
Recipient
Lincoln County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,545

To hire a qualified museum lighting professional to develop a museum lighting plan.

Statewide
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,061
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,040
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,240
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,020
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,241
Fund Source

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) requests assistance from local partners to collect samples and field data at designated stream monitoring sites for the purpose of assessing water quality and calculating annual pollutant loads.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Roseville
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$359,100
Fund Source

The Fairview Avenue storm sewer system is under capacity and stormwater runoff reaches the pipe faster than the pipes can convey the water downstream. This causes the system to surcharge, causing arterial street flooding, local street flooding, inundation of open spaces, as well as private property damage. This storm sewer system is directly connected to several significant regional water bodies.

Ramsey
Recipient
Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit plan for the history of technology in Minnesota model railroads.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$51,788
MNHS exhibitions are supported by diverse programming that complements the content of the exhibitions. These additional programs augment and promote the rich stories of Minnesota's history. In FY16, programs included lectures, musical performances, hands-on family activities, and other events. In particular, three exhibitions
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,687
Minnesota Association of Museums collaborates with the Minnesota Historical Society in providing professional development and support to history museum professionals across the state. In FY15, this partnership will assist with the funding of a part-time managing coordinator to begin implementing findings on history museum continuing education needs.
Statewide
Recipient
Preserve Minneapolis
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,645
To revise and expand existing walking and bicycle tours with eight additional tours of historic resources.
Hennepin
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

The Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota (CMSM) will complete the innovative community engagement process started with the previous Legacy grant. CMSM will build upon the progress created with the previous Legacy grant by transitioning the team's focus to carrying-out of strategic access strategies that engage a diversity of community members in the exhibit development process, resulting in the completion of fabrication plans for exhibits and environments that are accessible; engaging; and reflect the diverse art, culture, and heritage of southern Minnesota.

Aitkin
Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Macalester College
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,550
To conduct a Phase I archaeological survey of 150 acres in the Katharine Ordway Natural History Study Area, Inver Grove Heights
Ramsey
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (U of M Libraries)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$121,932
To digitize and make accessible botanical, zoological, and geological records documenting the natural history of Minnesota, 1872-1946
Hennepin
Recipient
Ka Joog
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$122,500

This project had three components: 1) An arts club that meets weekly and provides arts education and peer mentoring; 2) A theater play that will showcase issues/challenges within the Somali community in the community. The workshops are designed to introduce youth to traditional Somali arts and encourage them to extend the tradition through their own artistic practice. 3) Showcasing Somali Art, presentation and intercultural community engagement at the Somali Independence day Festival in 2016.

Benton
Hennepin
Ramsey
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
Faribault County Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To connect fairgoers with Minnesota history through storytelling and a dog sled exhibition. Paul Bunyan, portrayed by David Ward, told about legends involving his life as a lumberjack. The Iron Will Dog Sled exhibit displayed the actual sled used in the movie Iron Will, which was filmed in Northeastern Minnesota.

Faribault
Recipient
Faribault SWCD
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,500
Fund Source

Faribault County Soil and Water Conservation District will develop a mini-grant program to partner with area non-profits, community groups and lake associations to implement stormwater management practices that will intercept, treat, filtrate and/or infiltrate runoff that will reduce phosphorus and sediment loads into high priority and TMDL impaired waters in Faribault County. This program would provide cost-share and technical assistance to enable these organizations to go beyond planning and take action to protect our water resources.

Faribault
Recipient
City of Faribault
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
To preserve the smokestack on the Faribault Woolen Mill, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as a significant cultural heritage landmark that is otherwise obsolete to business operations
Rice
Recipient
Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified professional to develop a set of collections management policies and procedures.
Waseca
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$804,385
Fund Source

After 6 years of intensive baseline monitoring at 5 edge-of-field sites, 1 intermittent and 3 in-stream sites in 3 sub-watersheds representing the geomorphic regions of the Root River, the second phase of the project is well prepared for the implementation of BMPs. Continued monitoring will be used to measure the effectiveness of the BMPs for the next 6 years. In preparation for BMP implementation, extensive planning was completed using LiDAR terrain analysis and the Tomer Framework to prioritize practices.

Fillmore
Houston
Recipient
Fillmore County Fair
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer new arts and cultural heritage programming at the Fillmore County Fair. Funds will be used to install a historical exhibit, host a bluegrass performance, and being a project that documents fairgoers experiences through interviews and photos. The project is meant to bridge the past and the future by helping local community members appreciate local history and share their own story for generations to come.

Fillmore
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,240
Fund Source

Although agriculture dominates the landscape in the Root River watershed, urban stormwater is a component of the nonpoint sources that create the sediment load that is the main focus for reduction strategies in the draft turbidity TMDL report. This project will provide an opportunity to work with non-profits and other groups in local communities to implement stormwater practices that improve infiltration, storage and treatment of stormwater before it discharges into streams and rivers.

Fillmore
Recipient
Dakota Wicohan
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To conduct final editing of oral history footage for an original documentary on the history of the Dakota language in Minnesota.
Renville
Recipient
Minnesota Zoo
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,608
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,010

Financial oversight of the Minnesota Zoo's legacy projects, including budget planning, monitoring and financial reporting.

Recipient
City of Wabasha
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
To acquire professional services for a study on potential municipal reuse of the J.B. Finchy Building, a contributing feature of the Wabasha Commercial Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Wabasha
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To draft and implement a comprehensive interpretive plan
Hennepin
Recipient
Martin County Preservation Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,357
To rehabilitate the primary entrance of the First Church of Christ Scientist, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements. The facility operates as an arts center.
Martin
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,941
Since 1981, the downtown Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue has been the regional standard-bearer for contemporary music, recognized the world over as the premier venue for the "Minneapolis Sound"
Statewide
Recipient
University of Minnesota: James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,493
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,307
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,572
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$900
Fund Source

The Bell Museum will sort and identify all fish samples collected by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) North and South Biological Monitoring Units. The Bell Museum of Natural History (Bell Museum) will provide professional fish Identification expertise to the MPCA fish voucher program, while also helping the Bell Museum annually update their fish distribution map for the State of Minnesota. As the MPCA samples and vouchers species of significance, the Bell Museum shall catalog these species into their official fish collection.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$545,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$455,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$132,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
Fund Source

The DNR works with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Department of Health to determine the level of contamination from mercury and other harmful chemicals in fish from Minnesota's lakes and rivers and to track the success of efforts to reduce mercury pollution. Clean Water Legacy funding is being used to significantly increase (more than double) the number of lakes and rivers that are assessed for mercury contamination on an annual basis. Fish are collected during DNR fishery surveys, processed for laboratory testing, and analyzed for contaminants.

Statewide
Recipient
Morrison Soil and Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,575
Fund Source

This site has been monitored for several years due to past storm events causing flood waters that impacted State Highway 371 and Belle Prairie housing developments. This site is contributing large amounts of sediment and is one of the worst erosion sites identified along the Mississippi River in Morrison County.

Morrison
Recipient
Hamline University
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,561

Folk and Traditional Arts

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Richard W. Hensold AKA Dick Hensold
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,400
Folk and Traditional Arts
Beltrami
Clay
Ramsey
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Hmong Cultural Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Hmong Cultural Customs
Ramsey
Hennepin
Washington
Dakota
Recipient
David J. Hull AKA Dakota Dave Hull
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,000
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
Itasca
Crow Wing
Cass
Rock
Mower
Recipient
Katha Dance Theatre
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,800
Karna Kunti Sambad
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Kristofer J. Keltgen
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,038
Folk and Traditional Arts
Blue Earth
Nicollet
Ramsey
Hennepin
Nicollet
McLeod
Recipient
Mary Kleven AKA MaryPat Kleven
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Jump -Start Your Fiddle
Anoka
Becker
Cass
Dakota
Hennepin
Hubbard
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Minnesota Chinese Dance Theater
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,300
Western Songs and Dances of China
Ramsey
Hennepin