All Projects

100 Results for
Recipient
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700,000
Fund Source

This program will complete the initial WMA site development on 1,500 acres of land acquired in the Accelerated Prairie Grassland WMA and Accelerated Wetland WMA Acquisition programs to meet standards for inclusion in the Outdoor Recreation System. This program will also accelerate the restoration, enhancement and management of at least 5,180 acres of native prairie vegetation on existing public lands.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Waseca
Watonwan
Winona
Winona
Recipient
Pheasants Forever with USFWS and Ducks Unlimited
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,600,000
Fund Source

Pheasants Forever, Ducks Unlimited, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will cooperate to permanently restore and conserve approximately 800 acres of grassland and 400 acres of wetland as Waterfowl Production Areas in western and southern Minnesota. All lands acquired through this grant proposal will be owned and managed by the Service as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Becker
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Otter Tail
Pope
Renville
Rice
Steele
Stevens
Traverse
Traverse
Recipient
Mille Lacs County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$660

To add 22 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records

Mille Lacs
Recipient
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,748,000
Fund Source

This program will permanently protect approximately 1,246 acres (8.9-miles) of lake and warm water stream shoreline through fee title and permanent easement acquisition. Our program will also secure 54 Acres (3.1-miles) of permanent habitat management easements that include angler access on designated trout streams.

Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Lake
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Arrowhead Library System
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$439,943
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$457,937

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Recipient
Elissa L. Elliott
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,900
To research Egyptian culture and outline her third novel about Hagar--a figure central in Judaism Christianity and Islam.
Olmsted
Recipient
Crist A. Dahl
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To document gravel road bike races and the rural landscapes where they take place. The finished film will be submitted to the Bicycle Film Festival and other film festivals across the nation and within the state of Minnesota.
Olmsted
Recipient
Kathryn R. Leo-Keast AKA Katie Leo
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
To revise her poetry manuscript, work with a mentor or editor, identify twenty small presses and/or first book contests, and to submit the manuscript for publication.
Olmsted
Recipient
Depot Preservation Alliance
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To bring in professional exhibit design consultants to guide the development of the exhibit celebrating the cultural heritage of the area.
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Lake of the Woods High School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,545
To hire mosaic artist Marsha Wolff to teach the Lake of the Woods School students how to design and make mosaics for our school.
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Lake of the Woods High School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
The class of 2010 will take a field trip to Chanhassen Dinner Theater to see a production of Footloose.
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Esko Community Education
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To provide support for activities directly involved in the creation performance publication or exhibition of art or to host arts events by contracting for the services of another organization or individual to provide arts programming to the applicant orga
Carlton
Recipient
Loren R. Bullivant
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,668
Minnesota landscapes project and exhibit in Milaca
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Children's Dance Theatre
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
An educational partnership with the Minnesota Ballet
Olmsted
Recipient
Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester AKA Choral Arts Ensemble
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
New program "Symphonic Chorus" debut performances Oct 2010
Olmsted
Recipient
Churchill Elementary School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$479
Art in nature residency with mosaic artist Lisa Arnold
Olmsted
Recipient
Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Third annual summer musical presented as part of Rochesterfest
Olmsted
Recipient
John Marshall High School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Arts immersion and education project - stained glass construction
Olmsted
Recipient
Northland Words AKA Words Players Theatre Troupe
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Expand season to include theater experiences and education for young people
Olmsted
Recipient
Olmsted Medical Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Outdoor sculpture by local artist Richard Brubaker for OMC main clinic in Rochester
Olmsted
Recipient
Olmsted Medical Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Install local art in OMC's primary clinic and emergency department
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Stipends for artists participating in the public art bench project
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Stipends for artists providing demonstrations at ARTiKids
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Civic Theatre
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
A play for the RACE exhibit
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Community and Technical College
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250
Minnesota Guitar Quartet Day in Rochester at library and RCTC locations
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Dance Company
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
RISE - an eclectic multidisciplinary dance performance at the Mayo Civic Center
Olmsted
Recipient
City of Rochester Music Department AKA Riverside Concerts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Pilot project - World Music Series
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Music Guild
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,800
Scholarship competition and winner's recital
Olmsted
Recipient
Southeastern Minnesota Suzuki Association
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$560
Biennial Gasshuku music workshop at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center
Olmsted
Recipient
Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestras AKA SEMYO
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,632
Community outreach partnership with Rochester YMCA
Olmsted
Recipient
Cass County Environmental Services Department
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,971
Fund Source

This monitoring project includes lake and stream monitoring and encompasses all of Cass County, and surrounding counties. The project will obtain water quality data for streams; in 2009, lakeshed assessments indicated that many surface waters throughout the county were data deficient. This project will address the need for sufficient data on a county-wide basis and fulfill the State’s intensive watershed monitoring program goals by obtaining water quality data at targeted lake and stream sites.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Morrison
Otter Tail
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
MN Trout Unlimited
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,050,000
Fund Source

This program will restore and enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in 11 watersheds across the state of Minnesota. The proposed projects will improve habitat for both game and non-game fish and wildlife species uniquely associated with cold water trout streams and provide expanded recreational opportunities for Minnesota anglers.

Becker
Benton
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hubbard
Olmsted
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Pequana Playhouse
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
To implement arts programming in our community and also for to repair the lighting and lightboard in the Lake of the Woods school auditorium.
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Council on Black Minnesotans
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

In May 2009, the Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities Center and four state councils-the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, the Council on Black Minnesotans, the Chicano Latino Affairs Council, and the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans-to collaboratively create new programs and events that celebrates and preserves the artistic, historical, and cultural heritages of the communities represented by each council.

Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Recipient
MN DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,875,000

The Minnesota County Geologic Atlas program is an ongoing effort begun in 1982 that is being conducted jointly by the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Geological Survey and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The program collects information on the geology of Minnesota to create maps and reports depicting the characteristics and pollution sensitivity of Minnesota's ground-water resources.

Benton
Carlton
Carver
Chisago
Sherburne
Sibley
Recipient
North Fork Crow River Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is reduce peak flows in the North Fork of the Crow River through culvert sizing. Culvert sizing will typically result in smaller culverts, which will provide short-term temporary storage within channels and on adjacent lands upstream from road crossings. In addition to reducing peak flow rates, flood damage and downstream erosion, increased sediment and nutrient removal through extended detention time is expected.

Kandiyohi
Meeker
Pope
Stearns
Recipient
Snake River Watershed Management Board
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$171,766
Fund Source

The Snake River Watershed Management Board (SRWMB), working in concert with other local governmental units in within the watershed, will assist the MPCA, the project consultant, and other members of the Snake River Watershed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) technical team in the completion of tasks associated with this TMDL project. SRWMB, with assistance from members of the technical team (Kanabec Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), Pine SWCD, Aitkin SWCD, and Mille Lacs SWCD) will provide the services to complete this TMDL project.

Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$244,435
Fund Source

This project will result in the development of a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for turbidity for Deer Creek and the Nemadji River, and will also define which reaches of the Nemadji basin may be meeting standards for turbidity. It will also allow the Carlton County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) to become a full and active partner in this TMDL study and implementation project as well as future restoration and protection projects.

Carlton
Pine
Recipient
East Central Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$259,301
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$174,951

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Center for Energy and Environment
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000,000

Increasing energy conservation and efficiency in residences can play a significant role in Minnesota's goals for energy savings and carbon emissions reductions. The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE), a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization, is using this appropriation to develop and implement innovative residential energy efficiency programs. Programs will be demonstrated in eight cities: Apple Valley, Austin, Duluth, Minneapolis, Owatonna, Park Rapids, Rochester, and St. Paul.

Dakota
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Steele