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5523 Results for
Recipient
U of MN
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$556,000
Clay
Recipient
Meeker County Development Corporation
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,200

To hire a qualified historian to work with program partners in developing a strategic plan for heritage tourism in Meeker County.

Statewide
Meeker
Recipient
U of MN
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$191,000
Statewide
Recipient
Scott County
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$934,108
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,508
Fund Source

This project includes the development of 2.2 miles of paved, accessible non-motorized trail and four bridges connecting Scott and Carver counties across the Minnesota River and the natural landscapes of the Minnesota River Valley. The project will include construction of paved trail and four bridges, riverbank stabilization, signage and construction administration. This grant is providing partial funding.

Recipient
St. Louis & Lake Counties Regional Railroad Authority
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
St. Louis
Recipient
The Conservation Fund
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,174,000
Fund Source

Using the best science and biological data available, this project will protect sites that the DNR and has identified as high priority habitat acquisitions that are vital to support specific wildlife targets in the Metro Section Planning region. The Conservation Fund (TCF) will proactively contact and negotiate land protection with willing landowners in these complexes in coordination with DNR and local conservation groups and local communities to maximize wildlife populations of statewide and local importance.

Anoka
Hennepin
Isanti
Recipient
Area 4 - Metropolitan SWCDs Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

It is critical to train new staff, create modeling protocols for new BMPs, refine and calibrate models, and test ever-advancing modeling applications. The Metro Conservation District?s (MCD) Sub-Watershed Analysis (SWA) program provides these capacity-building services and unites efforts across 11 SWCDs. MCD proposes to analyze an additional 15 subwatersheds. The analyses will identify the location and estimated cost/benefit relationship for BMPs, evolve with new technology, and share discoveries metro-wide.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000,000
Fund Source

This project will establish a groundwater monitoring network in the 11 county metropolitan area. The network will provide information about aquifer characteristics and natural water trends by monitoring healthy aquifers (non-stressed systems). The project will also develop an automated system that captures groundwater level and water use data. This system will enhance evaluation of changes in aquifers that are stressed by pumping from existing wells.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Wright
Sherburne
Recipient
MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust Inc; Friends of the Mississippi River, Great River Greening, MN Land Trust, Trust for Public Land
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000,000
Fund Source

The Metro Big Rivers (MBR) partners successfully completed their work with the Phase 7 / ML2016 OHF appropriation. MBR exceeded original acreage goals by 14% and completed work on a total of 1,199 acres. Partners protected 145 acres through fee title acquisition and 194 acres through permanent conservation easement, restored 241 acres and enhanced 619 acres.

MBR 7 expended 99% of the OHF funds granted and leveraged the grant by 49% with almost $2 million in other funds.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Sherburne
Washington
Recipient
MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust Inc; Friends of the Mississippi River; Great River Greening; MN Land Trust
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,630,000
Fund Source

Metro Big Rivers successfully completed work with the Phase 8 / ML2018 OHF appropriation, exceeding amended acreage goals by 16% and completing work on 701 acres. Partners protected 87 acres through fee title acquisition and 199 acres through permanent conservation easement, restored 6 acres and enhanced 409 acres.

MBR 8 expended 97% of the OHF funds granted and leveraged the grant by 60% with over $1.5 million in other funds and landowner donation of easement value.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Sherburne
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Council Environmental Services
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$176,657
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$123,343
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$238,500
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) forms the core of a long-term program designed to measure and compare regional differences and trends in pollutant loadings from Minnesota’s mainstem rivers and the outlets of major watersheds and subwatersheds draining to these rivers.

Hennepin
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$965,841
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$965,841

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) is a federated regional public library system in the Twin Cities Metro Area in central Minnesota.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$844,624
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$821,725

Minnesota’s twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.2 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) is a federated regional public library system in the Twin Cities Metro Area in central Minnesota.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Minnesota Genealogical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To provide better organization of the library collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's genealogy resources.

Statewide
Dakota
Recipient
Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,344

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Goodhue
Recipient
U of MN
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$596,000
Statewide
Recipient
Waseca County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,360

To microfilm Waseca County newspapers to make primary records more accessible to the public.

Waseca
Recipient
Winona County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,327
Winona
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,204
Scott
Recipient
Coon Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$382,772
Fund Source

This project will reduce sediment and nutrient loading by 141 tons of sediment and 120 pounds of phosphorus annually while improving in-stream and riparian habitat by restoring a 2/3-mile corridor of Middle Sand Creek. This project expands upon the Lower Sand Creek Corridor Restoration project funded in part by a FY18 CWF grant and results in the restoration of over a mile of contiguous stream corridor.

Anoka
Recipient
Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$152,717
Fund Source

The purpose of this monitoring project is to maintain water quality data collection, build upon existing data for Phase II of the Intensive Watershed Monitoring approach, and develop a better understanding of what impacts the rivers located in central Minnesota specifically in the North Fork Crow Watershed.

Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Pope
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
St. Louis County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$205,000
Fund Source

This project will create a culvert inventory database for county and township roads in the southwest portion of St. Louis County that contains the St. Louis River watershed. Data will be used by the County Public Works Department to identify and prioritize stream crossings in need of replacement or increasing upstream storm water retention to reduce the potential for culvert failure during large runoff events, factoring in stream health (fish habitat and passage, sediment transport and hydrologic connection) while protecting infrastructure.

St. Louis
Recipient
Midway Chamber of Commerce Foundation
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,400
Ramsey
Recipient
Richfield Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$810
Hennepin
Recipient
Mille Lacs SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$268,747
Fund Source

This grant will fund the creation of a new Coordinator position with a primary focus on the Mille Lacs Lake subwatershed. Although not currently impaired, the Lake faces increasing development and land use pressure. Implementation of protection strategies is essential to the Lake's long-term health but current staffing does not allow sufficient time to be spent on project development and outreach to identify interested landowners.

Aitkin
Crow Wing
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Barr Engineering Co.
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,246
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,171
Fund Source

This project is to update stormwater harvest/reuse best management practices (BMPs) in the Minimal Impact Design Standards (MIDS) calculator. The update will also allow the calculator to utilize Excel files from previous of the tool.

Statewide
Recipient
City of Minneapolis (Community Planning & Economic Development)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,000
Hennepin
Recipient
Shingle Creek WMC
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to conduct a subwatershed assessment of that part of the City of Minneapolis that is within the Shingle Creek watershed. This subwatershed drains to three Impaired Waters: Crystal Lake, Ryan Lake, and Shingle Creek. The assessment will identify the most feasible and cost-effective best management practices for retrofit in this densely urban, fully developed subwatershed. The project includes workshops with neighborhood organizations to help them educate residents and organize implementation projects.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minnehaha Creek WD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,952
Fund Source

Both Minnehaha Creek and Lake Hiawatha are on the State Impaired Waters List and have had Total Maximum Daily Load Studies completed. The proposed work would focus on park land along Minnehaha Creek which is a highly-recreated corridor with public trail systems throughout. In 2014, the District experienced record flooding resulting in substantial erosion and tree loss along Minnehaha Creek. In 2015, the District completed an assessment of flood damage and received FEMA funding for bank repair at 31 sites along the Creek within Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board property.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minneota, City of
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,142,066
Fund Source

Construct collection system improvements to meet TMDL wasteload requirement

Lyon
Recipient
Frozen River Film Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,439

Minnesota Festival Support

Aitkin
Benton
Chisago
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Vintage Band Music Festival AKA Vintage Band Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,550

Minnesota Festival Support

Aitkin
Benton
Cook
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Stearns
Steele
Washington
Recipient
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride/Twin Cities AKA Twin Cities Pride
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Hot Summer Jazz Festival AKA Twin Cities Jazz Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Becker
Carver
Chisago
Clay
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Mille Lacs
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Steele
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Cultural Awareness Organization
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,858

Minnesota Festival Support

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Dakota
Faribault
Hennepin
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lyon
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
Stearns
Recipient
Native American Community Development Institute
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,625

Minnesota Festival Support

Hennepin
Recipient
SAATH
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,225

Minnesota Festival Support

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Selby Ave JazzFest
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,970

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Mid West Music Fest
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,100

Minnesota Festival Support

Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Clay
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Nobles
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
The Loppet Foundation
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,417

Minnesota Festival Support

Hennepin
Ramsey