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Recipient
Bee X. Yang
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Hong G. Dice AKA Gao Hong
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,700
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Dakota
Rice
Recipient
Hmong Cultural Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Folk and Traditional Arts
Ramsey
Hennepin
Recipient
International Friendship Through the Performing Arts
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,400
Folk and Traditional Arts
Dakota
Hennepin
Rice
Recipient
Ironworld Development Corporation AKA Minnesota Discovery Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,200
Folk and Traditional Arts
St. Louis
Aitkin
Lake
Cook
Itasca
Aitkin
Recipient
Ka Joog
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,000
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Ramsey
Dakota
Recipient
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota AKA Lao Assistance Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,280
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
Douglas K. Lim≤n
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,352
Folk and Traditional Arts
Hennepin
Ramsey
Anoka
Recipient
Iny Asian Dance Theater AKA Minnesota Sunshine Dance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Folk and Traditional Arts
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Fond du Lac Tribal College
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,787

The Fond du Lac Tribal College will provide two-day language immersion weekends for students and teachers having intermediate level fluency. They will be offered one weekend each month for eight months from September 2011 through April 2012. The weekends will focus on participatory activities including individual and small group discussions, skits, meal preparation, games, and field trips to seasonal camps. A wing of the college dormitory will also be set aside for language students to speak Ojibwe together and participate in language enrichment programming.

Recipient
Beltrami County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To construct an exhibit building adjacent to the fire tower now located on the Beltrami County Fairgrounds. The new building will replicate an authentic 1950s ranger station and will house an exhibit of Minnesota forest fire service activity, Ojibwa cultural history, a display of Paul Bunyan legends and artifacts, and space for historical, cultural and environmental education.

Beltrami
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
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

Four new and unique views of Fort Snelling from various points in history will be available for students, teachers and the general public to access online. The Minnesota Historical Society has been collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to build four computer models that illustrate a dynamic and changing Fort Snelling from 1820 to 1945. The models will be linked to a rich and interrelated set of materials from all parts of the Society's collections, including photographs and manuscripts.

Statewide
Recipient
Fosston, City of
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,362
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet phosphorus discharge requirements

Polk
Recipient
Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,442
Fund Source

This leadership workshop series will provide the participants (citizen leaders) with knowledge, skills, processes and tools that can help to strengthen their current efforts and nurture new ones.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Sister City International, Columbia Heights
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

To translate into English from Polish the story of World War II Minneapolis serviceman Walter Shimshock (Szymczak).

Winona
Recipient
Mahnomen County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To increase access to arts and cultural heritage programming at the Mahnomen County Fair by creating a performance space for ACH events. Funds would be used for stage construction, lighting and sound.

Mahnomen
Recipient
Norman County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To increase arts and cultural heritage programming at the Norman County Fair by building a stage and performance area.

Norman
Recipient
Beltrami County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,348

To restore the Freeman Doud Cabin and Sunnyside School, located on the Beltrami County fairgrounds. During the fair, visitors will be able to able to observe the log cabin restoration and chinking process. Display boards will depict the history of the cabin, show where it was built on Lake Bemidji, and acquaint people with the importance of preserving this history.

Beltrami
Recipient
The Trust for Public Land
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000

The Frogtown area of St. Paul is a culturally diverse, low-income neighborhood having less green space per child than any other neighborhood in the city and was recently identified as an area in need of a new park. This appropriation is being used by The Trust for Public Land, in partnership with the City of St. Paul, to acquire a portion of twelve acres of a currently vacant space in the area to establish the multi-purpose Frogtown Farm and Park.

Ramsey
Recipient
Hennepin History Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 10 interviews the history of Bhutanese refugees in Minnesota.

Ramsey
Recipient
Board of Water & Soil Resources
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$397,580
Fund Source

BWSR will administer funding to eligible County projects that provide funds and other assistance to low income property owners to upgrade or replace Noncompliant Septic Systems. BWSR will also manage annual reporting completed by each County.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Big Stone
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Hubbard
Isanti
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake of the Woods
Lincoln
Marshall
McLeod
Morrison
Norman
Olmsted
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Roseau
Scott
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Wilkin
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota State Community & Technical College
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,696

To hire professional conservators to assess historically significant collections and write a long range preservation plan.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Ann Bickle Heritage House
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,200
To replace the poorly-functioning furnace in the Ann Bickle Heritage House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Pope
Recipient
United States Geological Survey
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,481
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 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and used to conduct follow-up investigations at a select number of these sites.

Statewide
Recipient
Red Lake Department of Natural Resources
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84,959
Fund Source

The stream monitoring will follow the stream monitoring parameters and frequency tables outlined in the Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG) Request for Proposals (RFP). Specifically over the two-year grant period, monitoring will include 19 sets of field measurements for specific conductance, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, secchi tube readings, and one upstream photograph at each visit.

Red Lake
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,044
Fund Source

This project involves the water quality monitoring of, and data analysis for four major watersheds (8-digit Hydrologic Unit Codes) in the Rainy River Basin. This monitoring will assist in providing the water chemistry data needed to calculate annual pollutant loads for the Major Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (MWPLMN) and provide short term data sets of select parameters to other Agency programs.

Beltrami
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Recipient
I Cantanti Chamber Choirs
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
General Operating Support
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Recipient
Mantorville Art Guild
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
General Operating Support
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Red Wing Arts Association
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
General Operating Support
Dakota
Goodhue
Isanti
Olmsted
St. Louis
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Rushford Area Society of the Arts
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,650
General Operating Support
Fillmore
Houston
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association AKA SEMBA
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
General Operating Support
Fillmore
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Theatre du Mississippi
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
General Operating Support
Winona
Recipient
Winona Symphony Orchestra Association
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
General Operating Support
Fillmore
Houston
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$305,769
In order to implement its Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF) projects, the Minnesota Historical Society employs an ACHF Manager to oversee the program administration. The Society is also supporting administration of the grants program and expanded financial management and administrative functions. The Society is diligently working to keep administrative costs low while adhering to the legislative mandate that costs be "directly related to and necessary for a specific appropriation."
Statewide
Recipient
Austin Symphony Orchestra
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Hennepin
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Waseca
Recipient
Red Wing Arts Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Goodhue
Winona
Wabasha
Olmsted
Recipient
Albert Lea Art Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720

General Operating Support

Faribault
Freeborn
Mower
Steele
Recipient
Ameriikan Poijat Finish Brass Band
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Dakota
Olmsted
Rice
Recipient
Austin Area Art Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Dodge
Freeborn
Rice
Rock
Steele