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Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association AKA NEMAA
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,425

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Mizna
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,000

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Carver
Cass
Dakota
Hennepin
Polk
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Audubon Minnesota
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

A state Breeding Bird Atlas is a comprehensive systematic field survey of the occurrence, distribution, diversity, and breeding status of bird species within every region of a state. Atlases are mainly used to set conservation priorities, develop conservation plans, and guide habitat protection, restoration, and management efforts – in addition to being useful for recreational bird watching. Minnesota is one of only seven states in the country that has yet to complete a Breeding Bird Atlas.

Statewide
Recipient
City of Morton
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,000

Morton, Minnesota is home to many unique natural, cultural, and historic sites, including sites from the US-Dakota War and some of the oldest exposed rock, called Morton Gneiss, on the planet. The City of Morton is using this appropriation to develop a municipal site along the Minnesota River in Morton to be converted into a public canoe landing and campground and a trail connection between the Minnesota River State Water Tail and natural and cultural sites in the area including the Morton Outcrop Scientific and Natural Area.

Redwood
Renville
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$392,000

Many of the most experienced conservation practitioners at local soil and water conservation districts throughout the state are nearing retirement, and with their departure will go much of their practical, on-the-ground knowledge, experience, and skills. Meanwhile, college students seeking to be the next generation of conservation practitioners have knowledge of emerging technologies and other innovations that can improve and contribute to current conservation efforts.

Statewide
Recipient
Pheasants Forever Inc
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Pollinators play a key role in ecosystem function and in agriculture, including thousands of native plants and more than one hundred U.S. crops that either need or benefit from pollinators. However, pollinators are in dramatic decline in Minnesota and throughout the country. The causes of the decline are not completely understood, but identified factors include loss of nesting sites, fewer flowers, increased disease, and increased pesticide use.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Zoological Garden
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,838
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$92,085

 Legacy Farm Program

Legacy funds allow the Minnesota Zoo to extend the season of the Wells Fargo Family Farm beyond its historical May to September season to include full programming and exhibits from April through November. 

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
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
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center

The Humanities Center used a portion of the Legacy funding to provide administrative support for Legacy-funded work. This support includes work such as financial management, reporting, technology, and website maintenance.

Statewide
Recipient
Hibbing Public Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$523
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Quilters, Inc.
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,750
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Architectural Foundation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,453
Statewide
Recipient
Citizens for Global Solutions Minnesota
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
Hennepin
Recipient
U of MN
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,460,000

Terrestrial invasive species are species that are not native to a location and that pose critical ecological and economic challenges once they become established in that location. They come in the form of plants, animals, insects, pathogens, and microbes that can cause harm to natural habitat, urban landscapes, and agricultural systems. The problems posed by terrestrial invasive species continue to grow as existing infestations expand and new exotic species arrive, many of which are poorly understood.

Statewide
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000

Minnesota's Legacy Website is a site that follows the progress of all projects and programs receiving constitutionally dedicated funding from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment as well as the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. This website enables citizens to view how Legacy and Trust Fund dollars are being utilized in their community.

Statewide
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Fund Source

Minnesota's Legacy Website is a site that follows the progress of all projects and programs receiving constitutionally dedicated funding from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment as well as the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. This website enables citizens to view how Legacy and Trust Fund dollars are being utilized in their community.

Statewide
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Fund Source

Minnesota's Legacy Website is a site that follows the progress of all projects and programs receiving constitutionally dedicated funding from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment as well as the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. This website enables citizens to view how Legacy and Trust Fund dollars are being utilized in their community.

Statewide
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Fund Source

Minnesota's Legacy Website is a site that follows the progress of all projects and programs receiving constitutionally dedicated funding from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment as well as the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. This website enables citizens to view how Legacy and Trust Fund dollars are being utilized in their community.

Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,900,000
Statewide
Recipient
Pheasants Forever Inc
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$732,000
Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,038,000
Statewide
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,986
Fund Source

This project addresses twelve lakes that have aquatic recreation impairments as identified by eutrophication indicators and 53 impairments on 45 stream reaches in the Minnesota River Mankato and Watonwan River watersheds. The project will develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) addressing impaired lakes and streams in the Minnesota River–Mankato and Watonwan River watersheds. A TMDL establishes the maximum amount of a pollutant allowed in a waterbody and serves as the starting point or planning tool for restoring water quality.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Sibley
Watonwan
Recipient
DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$985,500
Fund Source

This Minnesota Forests for the Future project protected 178 acres of forest, forested wetlands, shoreline, shoreland wetland and other riparian areas with a perpetual working forest conservation easement in Crow Wing County ensuring public benefits, management access and sustainably managed forests.

Crow Wing
Recipient
MN Trout Unlimited
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,403,000
Fund Source

Minnesota Trout Unlimited and its partners, chapters, and volunteers enhanced habitat for trout, as well as other fish, game and wildlife, in or along 10 miles of coldwater streams around the state. We adapting to challenging conditions caused by the pandemic by shifting budget from smaller projects using hand labor (which was largely unavailable for the past 3 years) to larger scale projects utilizing heavy machinery.

Fillmore
Goodhue
St. Louis
Wabasha
Winona
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$425,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$425,000

Funds are appropriated for programs and purposes of the Minnesota Humanities Center. The humanities remind us of where we have been, bring knowledge and insights to current life, and help us envision where we are going. We work to articulate and strengthen what connects us, rather than what divides us.

Recipient
Minnesota Zoo
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,977
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$87,050
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$96,000

Farming is at the heart of Minnesota’s history and development, yet today more than half of all Minnesotans live in urban or suburban settings with little or no exposure to Minnesota’s agricultural history or culture. The Wells Fargo Family Farm provides an opportunity for the Zoo’s 1.3 million guests to experience a working farm, directly interact with farm staff and animals, and learn to appreciate agricultural food production.

 Legacy Farm Program

2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$723,080
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$545,181
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$738,011
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$543,436
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$533,891
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$533,063
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,111,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$838,045
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$737,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,600,000
Fund Source

Acquire land from willing sellers within the statutory boundaries of State Parks and within statutory designated State Trail corridors.

Statewide
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,461,549
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,042,697
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,740,793
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,347,609
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,630,006
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,695,102
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,151,874
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,762,912
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,313,796
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,798,525
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,369,007
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,273,100
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,190,000
Fund Source

There are 67 Minnesota State Parks and 7 Minnesota State Recreation areas that each have facilities to serve outdoor recreation users. Funds in this category are used for developing new facilities and include visitor centers, trail centers, roads, parking lots, bridges, campgrounds, and so on.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000
Fund Source

The objective of this project is to build on previous efforts aimed at determining the public health risk due to virus contamination in Minnesota groundwater. The Minnesota Department of Health will examine the occurrence of viruses in non-disinfecting groundwater sources in Minnesota as well as evaluate the association between source water virus occurrence and community acute gastrointestinal illness.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
To document in 18 oral history interviews the history of Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To digitize a collection of state documents, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,290
To document in 8 oral history interviews the history of modern masters in Minnesota architecture.
Statewide
Recipient
Dorothy Molter Foundation and Museum
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,021
To add 52 standard Minnesota museum studies titles to broaden public accessibility.
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government Appropriation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,920
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,100

Minnesota Youth in Government (YIG) is a youth-led experience that engages middle and high school youth in democratic governing leadership. Students learn about government process and gain an understanding of local, state, national and international concerns. They research and debate, participate in model Assemblies, United Nations, Youth Conferences on National Affairs, retreats and trainings, and National Judicial Competition, and gain an appreciation of diverse viewpoints in respectful ways.

Benton
Carver
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Faribault
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Itasca
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Civic Youth
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$104,235
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$92,625

It is commonly understood that one of the most important purposes of educating the nation's citizens is to protect and strengthen democracy. Education in America must prepare all students for informed participation in civic and democratic life. Minnesota Civic Youth develops authentic, nonpartisan civic programs to support educators in their efforts to prepare the next generation of citizens and to help students learn about democracy, civic responsibility and the political process.

Statewide

The primary goal of the Humanities Center’s Education Initiative is to increase student engagement and success; the foundation is strengthening the teacher-student relationship. Drawing upon the multiplicity of experiences and cultures represented in schools, educators gain insight into how to engage every student authentically and respectfully.

Statewide

The Minnesota Humanities Center is dedicated to bringing informative, enlightening, and engaging events to the community, providing all Minnesotans opportunities to build relationships, listen to stories, and learn from one-another.

Statewide

The Humanities Center used a portion of the Legacy funding for program planning and management. This support includes work such as exploratory and planning meetings for new initiatives and program management of all our Legacy work.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Drawing on the power of the humanities, Veterans’ Voices changes the narrative of Veterans and honors their contributions. It empowers Veterans to speak in their own voices through plays, discussions, literature, and the Veterans’ Voices Award. Veterans’ Voices will recognize the next great generation and illustrate that the Veteran’s voice is essential to the work of building our great democracy.

Statewide

We Are Water MN is a traveling exhibition and community engagement initiative that emerged from the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street project. Continued by MHC and several state partners, six greater Minnesota communities (Spicer, St. Peter, Red Wing, Sandstone, Lanesboro, and Detroit Lakes) hosted the exhibit in 2016-2017, and eight communities hosted the exhibit in 2018-2019 (Saint Paul, Bemidji, Crookston, Cloquet, Austin, Northfield, Grand Rapids, and Onamia).

Beltrami
Carlton
Dakota
Itasca
Mille Lacs
Mower
Polk
Ramsey
Rice
Statewide