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RiverSong Music Festival
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Minnesota Festival Support
McLeod
Meeker
Renville
Carver
Brown
Recipient
Rock Bend Folk Festival
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Nicollet
Blue Earth
Le Sueur
Watonwan
Steele
McLeod
Waseca
Rice
Faribault
Brown
Cottonwood
Jackson
Martin
Freeborn
Sibley
Scott
Dakota
Carver
Olmsted
Hennepin
Winona
Recipient
Selby Ave JazzFest
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,100
Minnesota Festival Support
Ramsey
Recipient
Stevens Square Community Organization AKA Red Hot Arts
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,650
Minnesota Festival Support
Hennepin
Ramsey
Anoka
Recipient
Winona-Dakota Unity Alliance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Minnesota Festival Support
Winona
Houston
Fillmore
Olmsted
Wabasha
Mower
Goodhue
Dodge
Dakota
Hennepin
Blue Earth
Renville
Pipestone
Recipient
Aitkin County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,132

To add 43 standard Minnesota history titles to broaden public accessibility.

Aitkin
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,993

To survey archaeological resources along 74 miles of the Minnesota River.

Sibley
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To gain physical and intellectual control of approximately 2000 artifacts using PastPerfect software.

St. Louis
Recipient
Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State (Civil War Commemoration Task Force)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To enable public access through a website on the Minnesota Civil War Sesquicentennial.

Ramsey
Recipient
Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
The Minnesota Main Street’s statewide coordinating program provides participating local Main Street organizations with training, tools, information, and networking.
Blue Earth
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,150
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$91,186

The Minnesota Humanities Center provided collaborative funds to museums and organizations celebrating the ethnic identities of Minnesotans. Legacy funds supported the following grants and projects between July 1, 2011 and December 31, 2013:

Dakota Nation Wide Conference ($500.00)
The Dakota Nation Wide Conference brought indigenous people from across the continent together in traditional Dakota homelands to honor the past, share experiences and knowledge, and to heal. The conference included visits to sacred sites as well as speakers on a variety of topics.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,111
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$215,046

The Humanities Center invests in building targeted partnerships with districts for greater, deeper, and more strategic systems change. At the same time, the Humanities Center continues to offer high quality, humanities-focused learning opportunities, both in-person and online, for individual educators.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$91,950
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,606

To strengthen knowledge and understanding and to deepen cultural connections, the Humanities Center builds deep relationships and truly collaborates with individuals and organizations to create and share engaging humanities programs and resources. These humanities programs and resources help Minnesotans fulfill their civic responsibility of being informed and active participants in civic life. The Humanities Center also engages with communities and individuals in activities and dialogues to actively learn from the humanities and reflect upon issues raised.

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,508
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,443

The Humanities Center used a portion of the Legacy funding to provide administrative support for the Collaborative Funds, K-12 Education Initiative, and Community Partnerships programs. This support included general planning meetings, financial management and reporting, and website maintenance and development. The Humanities Center also committed to deepening its ability to evaluate programming by sending staff to external evaluation workshops and hosting a series of five internal workshops with evaluation expert Dr. Michael Patton.

Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
2010 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.  

Statewide
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
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.  

Statewide
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

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.  

Statewide
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

This website enables citizens to view how Legacy and Trust Fund dollars are being utilized in their community. Additionally, the website contains links to all the project proposals received by the Legislative Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources and the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council;  frameworks and plans that have been developed for each fund; and information on how members of the public can apply for funding.

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
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University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$365,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

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BWSR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Statewide
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MN Trout Unlimited
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,470,000
Fund Source

Minnesota Trout Unlimited enhanced in-stream and riparian habitat for trout and other wildlife along more than 11 miles of coldwater streams across the state.  We far exceeded our original targets, enhancing habitat on 135 acres rather than 78.  We completed 16 separate stream habitat projects. Leveraging other funding and efficiently contracting projects allowed us to add habitat projects and adjust to changing conditions. 

Carlton
Cook
Dakota
Fillmore
Lake
Olmsted
St. Louis
Winona
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University of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
Fund Source

The Arboretum, consistent with the priorities of the LSOHC, successfully purchased 78.13 acres in Victoria, Minnesota adjacent to Arboretum property.  The purchase will ensure the protection of the deepest lake in Carver County and valuable habitat for future generations.

Carver
Recipient
BWSR
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,520,000
Fund Source

This project is was the third request of LSOHC to target riparian buffers for clean water and wildlife using the Reinvest In Minnesota easement program. The Clean Water Fund and OHF were be used in cooperation to secure priority buffers permanently. Five hundred and thirty three acres of enhanced wildlife and water quality buffers were protected with OHF dollars and a total of 1,208 acres were protected from all sources of funding.  

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800,000
Fund Source

This project will create a high accuracy elevation dataset - critical for effectively planning and implementing water quality projects - for the state of Minnesota using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and geospatial mapping technologies. Although some areas of the state have been mapped previously, many counties remain unmapped or have insufficient or inadequate data. This multi-year project, to be completed in 2012, is a collaborative effort of Minnesota's Digital Elevation Committee and partners with county surveyors to ensure accuracy with ground-truthing.

Anoka
Benton
Carlton
Carver
Cook
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Isanti
Kanabec
Lake
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Washington
Recipient
Fortin Consulting
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,500
Fund Source
The purpose of this project is to develop and distribute a watershed directory of the stakeholders in the Minnesota River at Mankato major watershed.
Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Sibley
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Minnesota City, City of
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,006,480
Fund Source

Construct sewer collection and treatment system for unsewered area

Winona
Recipient
Kids Voting St. Paul
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84,000

Kids Voting St. Paul will introduce youth-friendly technologies to enhance civic learning, expand its veterans civic education initiative, increase the number of students participating in Kids Voting elections, pilot a state-wide KidVention, expand and leverage partnerships, and convene a civic education provider summit.

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Learning Law and Democracy
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,300

Learning Law and Democracy Foundation will strengthen learning about the Minnesota constitution and government, create a civic self-assessment instrument for Minnesota schools, convene a civic education provider summit, enhance the teachingcivics.org website, expand professional development opportunities, and develop new lessons on Minnesota state and local government.

Statewide
Recipient
YMCA Youth in Government

YMCA Youth in Government will convene and expand a YMCA Youth Conference on state issues and convene a civic education provider summit.

Statewide
Recipient
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,205
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,566
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,755
Fund Source

This project will develop a reasonable statewide estimate of recharge using the Soil-Water-Balance (SWB) Code (Westenbroek and others, 2010), validate the simulation results, and conduct a parameter sensitivity analysis to identify the most sensitive model parameters. For the purposes of this application of the SWB application, comparing the simulation results will be conducted on selected watershed basins in the state against previously established recharge estimates.

Statewide
Recipient
Redwood Area Communities Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Brown
Chippewa
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
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Board of Water and Soil Resources
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,249,000
Fund Source

RIM Buffers Phase 1 combined the resource benefits of the Outdoor Heritage Fund (LSOHC), Clean Water Fund (CWF), and bond funds. This program exceeded our acreage goal by 439 acres (37%), enrolling a total of 1,595.4 acres of enhanced wildlife and water quality buffers in partnership with private landowners on 46 easements.

Statewide
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The Nature Conservancy
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500,000
Fund Source

Goals for Phase 2 of the MN Prairie Recovery Program were to: protect 1200 acres native prairie/savanna; restore 250 acres grassland; enhance 6000 acres grassland/savanna with fire, invasive species removal, and grazing; and continue a new prairie conservation model.

Becker
Big Stone
Chippewa
Clay
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Pope
Roseau
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wilkin
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MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,409,000
Fund Source

This Minnesota Forests for the Future project protected 19,439 acres of forest and forested wetlands with perpetual working forest conservation easements in Lake, Itasca and Koochiching Counties ensuring public access, management access and sustainably managed forests.

Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,980
To transcribe oral history interviews from Minnesota Supreme Court Justices, making them publicly accessible.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Genealogical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$638
To add 27 standard Minnesota history titles to broaden public accessibility.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,883
To hire professional conservators to assess historically significant collections and write a long range preservation plan.
Aitkin
Cook
Crow Wing
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,848
To complete an interpretive plan for the museum in order to better serve the public by increasing access to the history of lakes recreation.
Statewide
Douglas
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,230
To research and analyze the few existing dugout canoes in the State of Minnesota.
Aitkin
Carver
Chippewa
Dodge
Hennepin
McLeod
Meeker
Ramsey
Wright