All Projects

4994 Results for
Recipient
U of MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000,000
Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,450,000
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
Square Lake Film and Music Festival
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carlton
Chisago
Cook
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Isanti
Pine
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Swift
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Twin Cities Film Fest
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Benton
Blue Earth
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Ramsey
Sherburne
Stearns
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
United Arts of Central Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,955
Minnesota Festival Support
Beltrami
Benton
Blue Earth
Clearwater
Hennepin
Pine
Sherburne
Stearns
Waseca
Wright
Recipient
Art Shanty Projects
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Ramsey
Recipient
Austin Area Commission for the Arts AKA Historic Paramount Theatre
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,850
Minnesota Festival Support
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Mower
Olmsted
Steele
Recipient
Cultural Awareness Organization AKA Worthington International Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,420
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hennepin
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rock
Recipient
Frozen River Film Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,790
Minnesota Festival Support
Aitkin
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Wabasha
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride Twin Cities AKA Twin Cities Pride
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,027
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Grand Marais Arts, Inc. AKA Grand Marais Art Colony
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,413
Minnesota Festival Support
Cook
Hennepin
Lake
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Hot Summer Jazz Festival AKA Twin Cities Jazz Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Irish Fair of Minnesota
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,025
Minnesota Festival Support
Ramsey
Recipient
Lowertown Blues Festival AKA Lowertown Blues Fest
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association AKA NEMAA
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,725
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
St. Louis
Washington
Wright
Recipient
RiverSong Music Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,161
Minnesota Festival Support
Blue Earth
Carver
Chippewa
Crow Wing
Hennepin
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
McLeod
Meeker
Nobles
Redwood
Renville
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota Ballet
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
To document in 12 oral history interviews the history of the Minnesota Ballet.
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Newspaper Foundation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified consultant to research the history of Minnesota newspapers, in preparation for a future exhibit.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Lake Superior Marine Museum Association
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,100
To hire a qualified consultant to conduct an assessment of the Minnesota Point Lighthouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
St. Louis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,011

Total: $29,011.69

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. Legacy funds supported the following education strategy projects between July 1, 2015 and January 15, 2016:

During this time period, Legacy funding helped support K-12 Public Education work such as:

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000

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. The Minnesota Humanities Center collaborates with organizations and individuals to develop programs that facilitate and frame community conversations, deepen connections, and bring into public life the authentic voices of all people, especially those that have often been left out or marginalized.

Recipient
Upper Minnesota River Watershed District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$228,013
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop a Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan (WRAPS) to be used at the local level. It will increase the number of citizens participating in education and outreach events; foster information and idea exchange around watershed issues through relationships and social networks; involve community members in crafting civic engagement activities/plans in which they feel ownership and desire to implement; and promote awareness, concern, and watershed stewardship to community organizations/institutions.

Big Stone
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Recipient
Minnesota Children's Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$490,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage funding will allow us to pursue three major initiatives between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016: 1) Offer special exhibits and programs promoting creative and critical thinking in our main museum in St. Paul; 2) A Pop-up satellite Museum at the Mall of America featuring four changing exhibits to attract thousands of new visitors; and 3) Changing exhibits and access at Minnesota Children’s Museum-Rochester to ensure inclusive family experiences for the Rochester community. Recipient:

Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,998
Statewide
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,033
Fund Source

This project addresses five reaches of the Minnesota River that have aquatic recreation impairments as identified by high concentrations of E. coli. The project will describe the water quality impairments, complete pollutant source assessments, establish loading capacities and allocations for the impairments, and develop implementation strategies.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Waseca
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Square Lake Film and Music Festival
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,750
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Cook
Grant
Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Washington
Recipient
Twin Cities Film Fest
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,750
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
St. Louis
Washington
Wright

Total: $43,017.75 We are Water MN is a program and partnership with the Humanities Center, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota section of the American Water Works Association, and six greater Minnesota communities.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Children's Museum
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$475,300

Arts and Cultural Heritage funding will allow us to pursue three major initiatives between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017: (1) Offer special exhibits and programs promoting creative & critical thinking in our main museum in St. Paul. (2) A Pop-up satellite Museum at the Mall of America featuring four changing exhibits to attract thousands of new visitors. (3) Changing exhibits and access at Minnesota Children’s Museum-Rochester to ensure inclusive family experiences for the Rochester community.

Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

This project will update sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for 60-64 impaired stream reaches and provide a final TMDL report. The report will address sediment and turbidity impaired streams in the Minnesota River Watershed. TMDLs will describe the impairment in each water body and water quality targets, and will include a discussion of pollutant sources, supporting report components that document assumptions and methodologies, and TMDL equations with completed load allocations, wasteload allocations, and margin of safety for each impairment.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000
This initiative will share the stories of important historical cases and engage communities with the court system. Members of the Hispanic Bar Association will conduct oral interviews with select members, which will become part of a traveling exhibit in partnership with MNHS. Through this project, MNHS will assist the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association in advancing the goals of the Minnesota Legal Experience.
Ramsey
Rice
Stearns
Sherburne
Beltrami
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,999
The Minnesota Main Street program is a proven, comprehensive strategy that helps communities create new jobs and businesses while revitalizing buildings and preserving their historic downtowns. The program provides the tools, training, information and networking that communities need to revitalize their business districts. There are currently seven Minnesota Main Street designated communities: Faribault, New Ulm, Owatonna, Red Wing, Shakopee, Willmar and Winona. In the first two quarters of 2016, these cities gained 53 full-time jobs, 48 part-time jobs and 12 new businesses.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$291,000
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) is a statewide, multi-institutional collaboration that supports discovery, education and personal enrichment through digitization of and access to the rich historical resources of the state's public and academic libraries, archives, museums and historical societies, while also preserving these resources for future generations. MDL partnered with: * 180+ organizations through Minnesota Reflections, a premier searchable, online collection of primary source materials of more than 51,000 photos, maps, journals, letters, works of art and more. * In association w
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Zoo
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$243,693
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$384,400

Minnesota has long been committed to preserving its natural heritage. In partnership with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, US Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of Minnesota, and other conservation organizations, the Minnesota Zoo plays a significant role in these preservation efforts by addressing pressing wildlife conservation issues important to our State. Legacy funds allow the Minnesota Zoo to expand its field conservation and educational programs with a focus on animals and habitats closely aligned with Minnesota’s cultural identity.

Recipient
Art Shanty Projects
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Minnesota Festival Support
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,300
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Frozen River Film Festival
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,900
Minnesota Festival Support
Aitkin
Dodge
Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Olmsted
Ramsey
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Grand Marais Arts, Inc. AKA Grand Marais Art Colony
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,818
Minnesota Festival Support
Cook
Hennepin
Lake
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Hot Summer Jazz Festival AKA Twin Cities Jazz Festival
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington