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Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

CMSM opened its new permanent site with increased capacity to serve as an informal learning center that playfully engages children, families, and school groups in interactive experiences with the art and cultural heritage of southern Minnesota. With its current appropriation, CMSM is poised to strengthen its core as an institution that promotes arts and cultural heritage learning through continued

Anoka
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Equity Alliance MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

The Equity Alliance MN will bring to life absent narratives of Latino, Hmong, Native, Asian, African American, and women of the Civil Rights Era in a collaboration among youth, social studies teachers, Full Circle Theater (FCT), and St. Paul Neighborhood Network. The narratives, researched by youth, will be transformed by FCT into a six person play that will be presented, video recorded, and distributed with accompanying curriculum written by social studies teachers for teachers across the Equity Alliance MN and the state.

Anoka
Dakota
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Duluth Children's Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

Through the construction of new interactive exhibits and the creation of educational programming, the Duluth Children's Museum will highlight the community and culture of Duluth and the surrounding region. A climbable, playable model of Duluth's iconic canal lighthouses and an educational Ojibwe waaginogaan are among the planned new elements being added to the museum experience.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Children's Discovery Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$142,500

The Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota aims to strengthen its highly successful School Service Program by retaining a Program development coordinator, changing core interactive exhibits and creating new curriculum for pre-school and K - 5 students in ten northern Minnesota counties.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Carver County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$284,000
Fund Source

Construct 2.1 miles of paved trail between First Street in the City of Chaska and County Road 40 in the City of Carver on the Minnesota River Bluffs Regional Trail.

Carver
Recipient
Ka Joog
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$122,500

This project had three components: 1) An arts club that meets weekly and provides arts education and peer mentoring; 2) A theater play that will showcase issues/challenges within the Somali community in the community. The workshops are designed to introduce youth to traditional Somali arts and encourage them to extend the tradition through their own artistic practice. 3) Showcasing Somali Art, presentation and intercultural community engagement at the Somali Independence day Festival in 2016.

Benton
Hennepin
Ramsey
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
Somali Museum of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,210

Minnesota, home to the largest Somali population in the United States, lacks resources for students to access knowledge and representations of Somalia. The Somali Museum of Minnesota will offer students immersive field trips illuminating the history and arts of traditional Somali society by subsidizing admission fees, integrating elders as immersive guides on tours, and developing take-home curriculum materials.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Anoka County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
Fund Source

Improvements to Maintenance Shop, renovations and campground support facility improvements to improve maintenance and operations efficiencies.

Anoka
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,679,000
Fund Source

Design & construct trail, shoreline, water access, picnic & concessions improvements

Hennepin
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,769,000
Fund Source

Complete eastern Edina portion of the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail. Construct approximately 4 mile segment of trail from Tracy Avenue near Edina High School to the intersection of Xerxes and 75th on the Edina/Richfield border. Three Rivers has obtained a federal grant for $6.16 million to help pay for this project. The remainder will be funded through Fiscal Year 2014 and 2015 Legacy grants and local funds.

Hennepin
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Scott
Washington
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
Anoka County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,000
Fund Source

Continue the Conservation Corps of MN contract for work throughout the regional parks & trails system.

Anoka
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Park improvements at Bohemian Flats for Mississippi Gorge Regional Park (year 1 of 2)

Hennepin
Recipient
Bloomington
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$285,000
Fund Source

Partial funding to reconstruct parking lots, driveways, parking lot lighting, boat ramp improvements and associated storm water improvements at the Hyland-Bush-Anderson Lakes Regional Park Reserve.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$360,000
Fund Source

Recreation amenities at Above the Falls Regional Park (year 1 of 2)

Hennepin
Recipient
Anoka County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$948,000
Fund Source

Redevelop roadway, parking lots and trails, building enhancements, maintenance facility improvements, boat launch improvements, disc golf installation, natural resource restoration, signs, site furnishings, utilities, fees and contingencies.

Anoka
Recipient
Carver County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,000
Fund Source

Continue Recreation and Volunteer Specialist position initiated in 2014 to develop and implement recreation and volunteer programs. Engage 3,000 park visitors through 90 programs provided in the County Regional Parks in outreach programming. Legacy funds will leverage $42,000 in County General funds.

Carver
Recipient
Ramsey County Parks and Recreation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

With roughly 70,000 residents, Minnesota is home to the largest Hmong population in the United States. The top spinning game of Tuj Lub (pronounced - too loo) has its roots in Southeast Asia and holds cultural significance to the Hmong community. Formal Tuj Lub courts, constructed near a multi-shelter picnic area at Keller Regional Park, seek

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,125,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$919,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$919,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$975,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$975,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$550,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,537,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
Fund Source

This program supports communities as they plan and implement projects that address emerging drinking water supply threats. It supports the exploration cost-effective regional and sub-regional solutions, leverages inter-jurisdictional coordination, and prevents overuse and degradation of groundwater resources.

Activities in this program provide metro communities with:

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$625,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$625,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$375,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$375,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Metropolitan Council was awarded $1,500,000 from Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment funds for a Water Efficiency Grant Program during the Minnesota Legislature's 2023 Session. The Metropolitan Council (Council) implemented a water efficiency grant program effective July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026. Grants were awarded on a competitive basis to municipalities that are served by a municipal water system. The Council provides 80% of the program cost; the municipality must provide the remaining 20%.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
VocalEssence
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,770

In 2016, VocalEssence WITNESS welcomes artist Melanie DeMore to help us explore the Underground Railroad in Minnesota—specifically how our state has been a place of sanctuary for refugees from the time of slavery through today. As part of this project, Melanie will help record absent narratives of those who have found sanctuary in Minnesota, and these stories will be shared in video and written form to explore the concept of sanctuary as part of the WITNESS School Program.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington