All Projects

5409 Results for
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
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
BWSR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Statewide
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
Selby Ave JazzFest
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,124
Selby Ave JazzFest
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Vintage Band Festival AKA Vintage Band Festival
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,308
Vintage Band Festival
Rice
Dakota
Olmsted
Goodhue
Recipient
International Institute of Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,479
Festival of Nations
Ramsey
Dakota
Winona
St. Louis
Hennepin
Mower
Stearns
Steele
Aitkin
Kandiyohi
Brown
Anoka
Washington
Lac qui Parle
Meeker
McLeod
Carlton
Hubbard
Waseca
Yellow Medicine
Le Sueur
Chippewa
Wright
Chisago
Carlton
Itasca
Freeborn
Cass
Clay
Sherburne
Scott
Blue Earth
Mille Lacs
Lyon
Todd
Olmsted
Fillmore
Sibley
Becker
Pine
Morrison
Renville
Douglas
Goodhue
Wabasha
Carver
Otter Tail
Rice
Martin
Polk
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
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
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
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
BWSR with Pheasants Forever
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,090,000
Fund Source

RIM Buffers Phase II combined the resource benefits of the Outdoor Heritage Fund (LSOHC), Clean Water Fund (CWF), and bond funds. This program enrolled a total of 1,336.7 acres of enhanced wildlife and water quality buffers in partnership with private landowners on 29 easements. With 1337 acres (all sources of funding) protected and restored in this phase, we exceeded the original goal of 400 acres of OHF funded buffers and 400 acres of CWF funded buffers. Bonding dollars were used to fund the remaining 537 acres.

Statewide
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,610,000
Fund Source

The goals for this project were to: protect 1,200 acres native prairie/wetland/savanna; restore 250 acres prairie/wetland; enhance 6,000 acres grassland/savanna with fire, invasive species removal, and grazing; and continue a new prairie conservation model. This phase resulted in a total of 1,425 acres protected, 22,298 acres enhanced, and 110 acres restored. When combined with phases 1 and 2 of the Prairie Recovery Program we have cumulatively protected 4,070 acres, enhanced 58,134 acres and restored 314 acres using OHF funds.

Becker
Big Stone
Chippewa
Clay
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Mahnomen
Marshall
Pennington
Polk
Pope
Roseau
Stearns
Swift
Wilkin
Recipient
Minnesota Deer Hunters Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$960,000
Fund Source

The Minnesota Moose Collaborative (Collaborative) has implemented a variety of habitat enhancement treatments across the core of moose range in Northeast Minnesota on County, State, Federal, and Tribal lands since 2013.  Moose browse has been improved through treatments that regenerate preferred brush and tree species. The Collaborative has also planted over two million trees including white spruce, white pine, jack pine, and white cedar.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
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
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
Recipient
Upper MN Valley Regional Development Commission
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To hire a qualified interpretive specialist to develop an interpretive plan for the history along 287 miles of the Minnesota River Valley National Scenic Byway.
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800
To add 49 standard Minnesota museum administration titles to broaden public accessibility.
Clearwater
Recipient
City of Pipestone
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$830
To add 47 standard Minnesota historic preservation titles to broaden public accessibility.
Pipestone
Recipient
The Performance Lab
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 3 interviews the history of modern dance educators in the 1960s.
Statewide