All Projects

121 Results for
Recipient
Pomme de Terre River Association JPB
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$387,146
Fund Source

The Pomme de Terre River Association has targeted and identified specific areas and activities required for marked water quality improvement. This project will implement of 16 Water and Sediment Control Basins (WASCOBs), 28 Rain Gardens, 2 Shoreline/ Stream bank stabilization, 10 Waste Pit Closures, 1 Terrace Project, and the enrollment of 1900 acres into conservation practices. These practices in total will directly result in site-specific and watershed-dependent reductions of 17,801 tons of sediment and 17,784 pounds of phosphorous from entering surface waters yearly in the watershed.

Big Stone
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Swift SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Swift
Recipient
Swift SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Swift
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$138,957
Fund Source

The Lower Shakopee Creek has proportionally higher pollutant contributions than any other tributary in the Chippewa River Watershed, and lower than average implementation of conservation practices. Establishing relationships with agricultural landowners is critical for overcoming barriers to participation. In order to make measurable pollutant reductions, Chippewa River Watershed Project staff will increase one-to-one landowner contacts, program promotion, and Best Management Practice site identification.

Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Swift
Recipient
DNR and BWSR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,144,900
Fund Source

Reinvest In Minnesota (RIM) and Native Prairie Bank (NPB) coordinated to accelerate grassland protection efforts. Through this appropriation a total of 1,584 acres were protected.  This included 604 RIM acres and 980 NPB acres. Easement acquisition focused on Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan identified landscapes.

Big Stone
Clay
Cottonwood
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Redwood
Swift
Wilkin
Recipient
Chord-Ayres
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Lac qui Parle
Big Stone
Big Stone
Swift
Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Renville
Redwood
Recipient
New London Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Art Project

Anoka
Chippewa
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Meeker
Olmsted
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wright
Recipient
Prairie Winds Concert Band
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,560

Art Project

Kandiyohi
Meeker
Renville
Chippewa
Swift
Recipient
RiverSong Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

McLeod
Meeker
Sibley
Wright
Nicollet
Kandiyohi
Redwood
Stearns
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Washington
Scott
Dakota
Le Sueur
Renville
Cass
Cass
Todd
Douglas
Pope
Swift
Chippewa
Carver
Scott
Dakota
St. Louis
Wadena
Pine
Chisago
Recipient
Meander Art Crawl
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Chippewa
Big Stone
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Prairie Winds Concert Band
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,555
Art Project
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Renville
Swift
Chippewa
Stearns
Recipient
Meander Art Crawl
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Art Project
Chippewa
Big Stone
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Appleton 52 Wing Restoration Committee
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,390
Art Project
Swift
Stevens
Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Recipient
Dawson-Boyd Arts Association
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Art Project
Lac qui Parle
Chippewa
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Renville
Big Stone
Lyon
Lincoln
Recipient
New London Music Group
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Art Project
Kandiyohi
Swift
Chippewa
Renville
McLeod
Meeker
Stearns
Benton
Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Douglas
Hennepin
Dakota
Stevens
Lyon
Grant
Washington
Ramsey
Blue Earth
Recipient
Redwood County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,992
Art Project
Redwood
Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Swift
Kandiyohi
Recipient
John G. Larson
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
Sherburne
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Arnold D. Lillo AKA Arnie Lillo
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Pipestone
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Appleton-Milan Elementary School
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000

Arts in the Schools

Chippewa
Swift
Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Lac qui Parle Valley School District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Arts in the Schools

Swift
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
New London-Spicer Public Schools
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350

Arts in the Schools

Kandiyohi
Stearns
Swift
Meeker
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band Parents Association, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage

Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Martin
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Nobles
Ramsey
Steele
Stearns
Swift
Winona
Recipient
Northern Light Opera Company
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Arts Access Grant

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Mahnomen
Morrison
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Polk
Ramsey
St. Louis
Scott
Stearns
Swift
Wadena
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council AKA Heartland Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,741

Arts Access Grant

Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carver
Cass
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Kandiyohi
Lake
Mahnomen
Marshall
Morrison
Nicollet
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Ramsey
Stearns
Swift
Wadena
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,248

Arts Access

Anoka
Beltrami
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Kanabec
Koochiching
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Martin
Meeker
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
St. Louis
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
MacPhail Center for Music
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,393
Arts Learning
Becker
Blue Earth
Chippewa
Chisago
Cottonwood
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lake
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Mower
Nobles
Norman
Pennington
Pipestone
Renville
St. Louis
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Appleton-Milan Elementary School
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Arts in the Schools
Swift
Chippewa
Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Carver
Douglas
Freeborn
Hennepin
Mower
Nicollet
Ramsey
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Recipient
Nicholas K. Nerburn
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,067

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
Otter Tail
Pine
Beltrami
Aitkin
Cass
Hubbard
Clearwater
Becker
Wadena
Todd
Morrison
Traverse
Big Stone
Stevens
Pope
Swift
Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Renville
Meeker
Nicollet
Sibley
McLeod
Carver
Wright
Ramsey
Hennepin
Chisago
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,912
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to create a shared plan for the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process with roles, responsibilities, commitments and deliverables clearly understood by all (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Chippewa River Watershed, and local partners). The MPCA and the Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) will be working together to ascertain the level of involvement that local units of government and other partners want to engage in for the second round of the WRAPS process.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,965
Fund Source

The goal of the Chippewa River Watershed Protection project is to protect unimpaired areas of the watershed. This will be accomplished through education and outreach with landowners and through implementation of best management practices.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Pope
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,429
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,197
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,066
Fund Source

The Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) will work with the Minnesot Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to conduct watershed pollutant load monitoring at four sites in the Chippewa River watershed and one site in the neighboring Pomme de Terre River watershed to aid the MPCA in measuring and comparing regional differences and long-term trends in water quality. Our goal is to collect quality data and complete load calculations for five sites using the MPCA's Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) established protocols.

Chippewa
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
DeGraff, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Construct sewer collection and treatment system for unsewered area

Swift
Recipient
DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,458,800
Fund Source

With this appropriation, the DNR enhanced and restored over 11,700 acres of public lands or permanently protected private lands under easement.  Projects under this appropriation included prescribed fire, prescribed or conservation grazing, woody removal, and enhancing plant diversity.  With this appropriation we were able to exceed our target acreage by 38 percent.  

Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Clay
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Pope
Red Lake
Redwood
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Wilkin
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,145,000
Fund Source

Work resulting from this appropriation resulted in the acquisition, development, and inclusion of 1,733 acres into the state Wildlife Management Area (WMA) system.  We exceeded the projected acres by 56% and exceeded leverage by nearly 20%.

Anoka
Chisago
Clay
Cottonwood
Dakota
Lyon
Murray
Norman
Rice
Stearns
Swift
Wright
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,007,000
Fund Source

We restored and enhanced a total of 15,577 grassland acres with 239 projects on Wildlife Management Areas, Scientific and Natural Areas, and Native Prairie Bank easements.

Aitkin
Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
RiverSong Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,454

Equipment and Facilities Improvement

McLeod
Meeker
Sibley
Wright
Nicollet
Kandiyohi
Redwood
Stearns
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Washington
Scott
Dakota
Le Sueur
Renville
Cass
Cass
Todd
Douglas
Pope
Swift
Chippewa
Carver
Scott
Dakota
St. Louis
Wadena
Pine
Chisago
Recipient
Big Stone Arts Council
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,190
Equipment/Facilities-Legacy
Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Swift
Traverse
Recipient
Willmar Area Symphonic Orchestra
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,759
Equipment/Facilities-Legacy
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Stearns
Swift
Renville
Lyon
Recipient
Friends of the Minnesota Valley
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Continue and expand a River Watch program on the Minnesota River engaging teams of high school students in water quality monitoring and reporting the data to the MNPCA

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Dakota
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Yellow Medicine