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Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,833,000
Fund Source

This program will acquire and develop approximately 730, acres of new Wildlife Management Area (WMA) lands. New WMA acquisition acre targets by LSOHC Sections will be consistent with the recommendations of The Citizens Advisory Committee report of 2002? Wildlife Management Area Acquisition The Next 50 Years. Additionally, this program will protect 275 acres of native prairie as state Scientific & Natural Areas (SNAs) and perpetual Native Prairie Bank (NPB) easements.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Sherburne
Stearns
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Wilkin
Wilkin
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited and DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,505,000
Fund Source

This programmatic partnership between the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Ducks Unlimited (DU) will accelerate enhancement, restoration, and protection of shallow lakes and wetlands important to waterfowl. This partnership will assess, design, and implement shallow lake and wetland enhancement, restoration, and protection projects to address the most important wetland issues facing waterfowl and other wetland wildlife in Minnesota.

Anoka
Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Freeborn
Grant
Isanti
Kittson
Le Sueur
Lyon
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Polk
Pope
Rice
Roseau
Stearns
Stevens
Stevens
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,416,000
Fund Source

This program uses a multi-programmatic approach to achieve prioritized aquatic habitat protection, restoration, and enhancement for lakes, trout streams, and rivers across Minnesota. We propose to: i) protect 7.8 miles of shoreline on lakes, rivers and trout streams; ii) effect structural repairs to 2 lake outlet control structures that will integrate fish passage; iii) restore and enhance river and stream functions that will benefit over 50.5 river miles; and iv) enhance 1.4 miles of shoreline habitat on publicly-owned lakeshore.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Blue Earth
Carver
Cass
Chisago
Clay
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Itasca
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lake
Le Sueur
Martin
Meeker
Morrison
Murray
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Ramsey
Redwood
Rice
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Wadena
Recipient
St. Cloud State University
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,204

114 rolls of microfilmed newspapers were acquired from the Minnesota Historical Society of seven (7) local St. Cloud newspapers including the St. Cloud State Chronicle. The materials were checked in, cataloged and made available to St. Cloud State library patrons.

Stearns
Recipient
Kanabec County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$432

With the grant the Kanabec County Historical Society purchased sixteen rolls of microfilm to make current their collection of Kanabec County Times newspaper through 2007 and fill in the missing years of the Grasston Advance for 1920 and 1922.

Kanabec
Recipient
Lac qui Parle County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,960

To add 255 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,793

Conservation treatment, including beadwork restoration, repairs, cleaning and the creation of storage mounts was completed as proposed for three Anishinabeg (Ojibway) bandolier bags.

 

Stearns
Recipient
Kanabec County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,265
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Fund Source

This project will be a complete TMDL report for the Biota and Bacteria (E. coli) impairments for the Ann River Watershed. The water bodies associated with these impairments will then be removed from the MPCA’s impaired waters list, and implementation activities to restore the water bodies will begin.

Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Dawson-Boyd Arts Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Productions "Heroes" and "Charlotte's Web."
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Kiera Faber
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To create her proposed film, The Hidden, that interweaves stop motion animation and live motion by collaborating with two other Minnesota artists for artistic and professional growth.
Stearns
Recipient
Boys and Girls Club of Central Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$684
The staff of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota request funding to support staff training in the area of fine arts in order to increase the quality and quantity of fine arts programming in preparation for the annual Fine Arts Exhibit and Contes
Stearns
Recipient
Central Minnesota Area Learning Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,576
The organization submitted this application originally as a project grant and board members wanted it moved to this Arist in Residency grant round. Complete application upload in signature page upload.
Stearns
Recipient
Central Minnesota Reading Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$932
Students, school employees, and members of the community will learn how a book is developed from its inception to the published product and the techniques of the writing process through the storytelling and artistry of award winning author, Cynthia Lord.
Stearns
Recipient
Madison Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,283
Madison Elementary School, in partnership with St. John’s Arboretum and Steve Fines, desires to provide the fifth grade students with a new perspective on the importance and relevance of math, science and language arts. We will do this by creating a progr
Stearns
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will take classes at Jill Hoggard Academy of Dance.
Waseca
Recipient
Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,000
The Chamber Music Society of Saint Cloud will present of series of six concerts by visiting professional ensembles, along with a variety of community outreach activities.
Stearns
Recipient
College of Saint Benedict AKA College of Saint Benedict Fine Arts Programming
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,588
The College of Saint Benedict will present a free outdoor concert series, Sunset Stages at Saint Benedict’s, designed to specifically engage the Saint Joseph community and featuring Minnesota artists.
Stearns
Recipient
Dawson-Boyd Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,002
Elementary students of the Dawson-Boyd School District will experience multi-curricular learning by creating with five roster artists in the areas of music, storytelling, theater, poetry, mosaics, and interdisciplinary art through school residencies and community activities.
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Great River Educational Arts Theatre AKA GREAT Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,000
The Theatre 4 All Initiative will eliminate barriers to ensure access to quality live theater for 1,000 disadvantaged youth in St. Cloud's inner-city schools.
Stearns
Recipient
Renville County West Area Arts Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Upgrade Lighting System.
Renville
Recipient
Minnesota's Agricultural Interpretive Center AKA Farmamerica
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,545
They will sponsor the creation of 4-6 paintings or drawings portraying people engaged in rural and agricultural life.
Waseca
Recipient
Waseca Arts Council, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
They will sponsor monthly art exhibits, a bi-weekly cable TV show, an artist-in-residency program, and add new education classes.
Waseca
Recipient
Waseca County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,200
They will sponsor the 9th annual Chautauqua with musicians and an interactive theater.
Waseca
Recipient
Austin Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Connecting community through music, art and dance.
Mower
Recipient
Northwestern Singers of Austin Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,195
Annual spring concert.
Mower
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will take violin lessons with a private instructor.
Waseca
Recipient
Kennedy Community School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,655
Christopher D. Lutter-Gardella of Puppet Farm Arts will conduct a one-week residency with Kindergarten children on puppetry. The children will be involved in constructing large scale puppets with the week concluding with a works in progress presentation t
Stearns
Recipient
Mora Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500

Art Crawl: Collaborations with Our Community Artists.

Kanabec
Recipient
Barr Engineering Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,339
Fund Source

This Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) project will develop a TMDL Report and Implementation Plan defining the sources contributing to the impairments and outlining the steps necessary to bring Bluff Creek back to meeting water quality standards.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Chippewa County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$286,113
Fund Source

This project will complete a comprehensive and sustainable Major Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies report for the Chippewa River, its tributary streams, and the many lakes in the Chippewa River watershed that is understandable and adoptable by local units of government and residents.

Chippewa
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
City of Paynesville
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,494,362
Fund Source

The primary objective of this workplan is to demonstrate the ability of the City of Paynesville to meet the current and future wastewater treatment needs and achieve beneficial use of wastewater effluent, to replace the use of groundwater.

Stearns
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,075
Fund Source

The nine member Counties and Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) will be able to enhance our effectiveness to provide elevated levels of technical assistance, education and outreach in the areas of urban stormwater, wellhead protection, nutrient management, conservation agronomy, drainage and agricultural best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution in the Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Watonwan River Watersheds.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Wirth Center for the Performing Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,170
Community Arts Schools and Conservatories
Stearns
Recipient
Granite City Folk Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250
This grant will enhance the Granite City Folk Society's ability to provide quality arts programming.
Stearns
Recipient
Great River Chorale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,643
This grant will enhance the Great River Chorale's ability to provide quality arts programming.
Stearns
Recipient
Minnesota Center Chorale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,164
This grant will enhance the Minnesota Center Chorale's ability to provide quality arts programming.
Stearns
Recipient
Minnesota Dance Ensemble
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,830
This grant will enhance the Minnesota Dance Ensemble's ability to provide quality arts programming.
Stearns
Recipient
Pioneer Place Theatre Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
This grant will enhance the Pioneer Place Theatre Company's ability to provide quality arts programming.
Stearns
Recipient
Saint Cloud Municipal Band
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,150
This grant will enhance the Saint Cloud Municipal Band's ability to provide quality arts programming.
Stearns
Recipient
Visual Arts Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,692
This grant will enhance Visual Arts Minnesota's ability to provide quality arts programming.
Stearns