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Recipient
Minnesota Hungarians, Inc
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,816
Minnesota Hungarians' project, a series of events over six days (lecture-demonstration, workshop, and concert involving community groups) is designed to provide opportunities for Minnesotans to learn about and participate in Hungarian folk dance and music.
Hennepin
Recipient
Native American Community Development Inst
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
NACDI, in collaboration with All My Relations Arts, will present Tradish: Contemporary Treatments of Traditional Dakota and Ojibwe Arts. Tradish will exhibit work by expert and award-winning American Indian artists who live and work in Minnesota.
Hennepin
Recipient
Nordic Arts Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,000
Nordic Arts Alliance presents Ordinary Vikings by Minnesota artist Jill Johnson, creating traditional Scandinavian Bronze and Iron Age bog stav sculptures based on Nordic cultural stories. The work is expanded upon and interpreted by Icelandic folklore storyteller Ingibjorg Gisladottir. There will be an outdoor exhibition at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve.
Clay
Recipient
Kari Tauring
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,113
Nordic stav and sondan workshops and collaboration will explore the ancient roots of Nordic culture by integrating runes, stav, and Old Norse with dance forms preserved by Nordic immigrant ancestors, culminating in interactive community performances.
Hennepin
Recipient
Nirmala Rajasekar
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,910
Rajasekar's project will focus on Nuances of Melody and Rhythm in Carnatic Music, the classical music of South India, through workshops (by a Minnesota artist and a visiting artist from India), performances, and mentorship.
Hennepin
Recipient
Bret Hesla
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,274
Hesla will bring people to three Minneapolis parks to sing together, inspired by the incredible legacy of park singing in the early 20th century. These summer 2011 singing events, open to all, will build community and celebrate our diverse traditions.
Hennepin
Recipient
Douglas K. Limón
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,980
The Cradleboard Project will revitalize a part of our Native American cultural knowledge that is an endangered tradition, by bringing family and community together to carry on the tradition of the cradleboard with traditional appliqué beadwork.
Hennepin
Recipient
Anoka-Ramsey Community College AKA Anoka-Ramsey Community College-Coon Rapids Campus
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$64,829
Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire will explore, promote, and honor Minnesota ceramic artists, their tradition of mentorship, and the ways in which they pass on their skills to new generations.
Anoka
Recipient
Southside Family Charter School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,408
Southside Family Charter School will partner with artists focused on the folk music of African Americans, with a special emphasis on songs of struggle, and provide extended residencies for students in grades 2-8.
Hennepin
Recipient
Dance Revels Moving History AKA Dance Revels
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,184
Dance Revels Moving History will work with local French and Metis (French-Indian) cultural specialist/interpreter Virgil Benoit, French Director Josette Antomarchi, and several French cultural groups to produce dance workshops, discussions about being bi-racial, and a dance theater show about the Metis founding father of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Pierre Bottineau and his multi-racial world.
Hennepin
Recipient
Hmong Arts Connection
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
The Hmong Arts Connection (HArC) promotes and inspires artistic expressions of Hmong culture through storytelling, in partnership with L’Etoile du Nord French Immersion School. Professional Hmong storytellers will connect with K-6 classrooms to perform and teach the art of Hmong storytelling.
Ramsey
Recipient
Irish Fair of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,512
The Irish Fair of Minnesota, which is conducted annually on Harriet Island in Saint Paul on the second weekend of August, is one of Minnesota’s largest ancestry-based outdoor folk and traditional arts and culture festivals.
Ramsey
Recipient
Forest City Township
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,536
Fund Source

Construct collection and treatment facilities

Meeker
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
Friends of Fort Snelling (Fort Snelling State Park Assn.)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,900

An illustrated, self-guided tour booklet was developed and produced that describes Fort Snelling during the WWII years. The guide contains many photos of historic and current views and the sketch maps are easy to follow to locate the identified sites. Approximately 200 copies were distributed to libraries, cultural institutions, participants in the Upper Post redevelopment process, The Veterans Administration Hospital, services organizations and the MN soldiers Home.

Ramsey
Recipient
Hennepin County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

As a requirement for the transfer of certain properties within the Upper Post area of Fort Snelling to the Historic Surplus Property Program, a Program for Preservation and Utilization (PPU) was designed and developed to preserve and enhance the public use and future redevelopment of the Fort Snelling area. The report was created for the project using the National Park Service format. It will serve as a central resource when changes are to be made to the Upper Post.

Hennepin
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
Foxhome, City of
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,535
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing subsurface sewage treatment systems

Wilkin
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
Ely Greenstone Public Art Committee
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

The Pioneer Mine Site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was improved with the repair of the existing furnaces in the Miners Dry and Shaft Houses. The furnaces are tied in with a fire suppression system and a security system. Installation of expanded steel across three doors, application of adhesive and boards around Shaft House base and removal of surrounding brush provides added protection from insect, animal and human invasion. Destruction by nature and vandals has been minimized.

St. Louis
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
City of White Bear Lake
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Varney Lake is owned and maintained by the City of white Bear Lake as part of its stormwater collection system. The City will excavate approximately 10,000 cubic yards of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) contaminated sediment from Varney Lake (which is located in a residential portion of the City) and manage the sediments on site by encapsulating the sediment in a berm covered with clean top soil. The encapsulated sediment will be managed as a solid waste in what the MPCA refers to as a limited use solid waste landfill (Facility).

Ramsey
Recipient
City of Circle Pines
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,916
Fund Source

This project will remove accumulated sediment from two Stormwater Treatment Ponds in Circle Pines that were constructed in the 1970’s. Recent testing of the sediments indicates that Tier 2 and 3 PAH compounds were found in the sediment. The most recent estimate for the volume of material that will be removed is 2,400 Cubic Yards.

Anoka
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
Yellow Medicine County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,775

YMCHS purchased equipment, supplies and a one-year subscription to Ancestry.com to provide access to family history in Yellow Medicine County. Advertisements have been placed in local newspapers and brochures to inform the public of these new resources.

 

Yellow Medicine
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
Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

General Operating Support

St. Louis
Recipient
Ely Winter Festival
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Support to maintain their facility.
St. Louis
Recipient
The County Seat Theater Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Pay 2011/2012 utility bills and raise part time salary of General Manager.
Carlton
Recipient
Edge of the Wilderness Community AKA Edge Center for the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Hire a paid part-time administrative staff person.
Itasca
Recipient
Jaques Art Center, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Increase wages and hours for Office Manager and pay utility fees and building insurance.
Aitkin
Recipient
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,989
Stabilize and support the part time General Manager position through a salary increase.
St. Louis