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City of North St. Paul
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,950
To hire a consultant to conduct an intensive architectural survey of 1880s residential properties in North St. Paul.
Ramsey
Recipient
Beltrami County History Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,966
To acquire 86 rolls of primary records on microfilm for increased public access to history.
Beltrami
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer
Ramsey
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Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,500

The Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and the Humanities Center’s “Arts & Cultural Legacy” program will educate, highlight, and promote understanding of the arts and cultural heritage of Asian American and Pacific Islanders for all Minnesotans. The Program consists of 3 elements 1) capacity building via the Artists Fellowship Program and the Asian Pacific Youth Council; 2) print and media via the creation of books for young readers; and 3) arts programming.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Bethel University Digital Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,800
To digitize The Clarion, the Bethel University's student newspaper, 1983-2007, for increased public access.
Ramsey
Recipient
Council on Black Minnesotans
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

The Council on Black Minnesotans and the Humanities Center will coordinate a Cultural Relations Summit for Minnesotans of Africans descent. The summit will celebrate culture traditions through instructional demonstrations, guided tours, and visual arts; plan for cultural institutions’ sustainability; and strengthen cultural connections through DNA technology. A web-based cultural portal and a video documentary on the contributions of Minnesotans of African will discover and preserve cultural traditions and enhance relations in Minnesota.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Lower Phalen Creek Project
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000
To research and develop a plan for interpreting the history, culture and American Indian astronomical significance of Wakan Tipi/Carver’s Cave
Ramsey
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Chicano Latino Affairs Council
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,500

The Chicano Latino Affairs Council and the Humanities Center will build on the grant received last year, which was intended to identify the elements of success in programs for Latino high school students and ways to replicate them. Applying the findings of CLAC's and HACER's research, CLAC will integrate its biennium goal of improving levels of educational achievement for Latino youth with the Legacy goal of enriching Minnesota’s cultural legacy by piloting the program in two Minnesota schools.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
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Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

This mini-grant supported curriculum development and activities to build a new civics education program for Latino youth. CLUES integrated this civics education curriculum across the existing Youth in Action (YA!) program.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Museum of American Art
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,654
To improve to museum standards the storage of artwork documenting Minnesota history.
Ramsey
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Ramsey County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,996
To inventory approximately 1,900 objects documenting Ramsey County history.
Ramsey
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Saint Paul Parks and Recreation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To obtain the services of a qualified historian to research and write built environment history content supporting the Como Woodland Outdoor Classroom curriculum
Ramsey
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DNR
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,990,000
Fund Source

The Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program, managed by the Department of Natural Resources, provided 56 competitive matching grants to non-profit organizations and governments, appropriating all the available ML12 funds.

Aitkin
Becker
Brown
Carlton
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Douglas
Faribault
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kittson
Lake
Lincoln
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Nobles
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Renville
Rock
Sherburne
St. Louis
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Wilkin
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Science Museum of Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,000
To facilitate collections inventory, geophysical survey and testing, LiDAR archaeological study and outreach efforts associated with the Crites Oneota and Woodland site in the St. Croix Valley
Ramsey
Recipient
Park Press Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To conduct research for a series of articles on the history of demographic changes in Ramsey County.
Ramsey
Recipient
DNR
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,480,000
Fund Source

We used a programmatic approach to achieve prioritized aquatic habitat protection, restoration, and enhancement for lakes, trout streams, and rivers across all LSOHC planning regions of Minnesota.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Blue Earth
Cass
Chisago
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Redwood
Renville
Rice
St. Louis
Stearns
Wabasha
Washington
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Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$153,500

The Why Treaties Matter exhibit made possible by previous Legacy funding explores the relationships between Minnesota's Dakota and Ojibwe tribes and the United States Government. The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Humanities Center will take the work and impact of the exhibit deeper by creating a curriculum to complement the exhibit.

Beltrami
Cass
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
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Heartland Democracy
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Heartland Democracy will partner with Commonbond’s Skyline Tower’s Teen Program to engage a cohort of teenagers who are primarily Somali- and Ethiopian-American in the Empowering U program—discovering their own motivation to engage in civic affairs, along with the tools to do so.

Ramsey
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,800
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the Clearwater County History Museum environment
Clearwater
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

The Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota (CMSM) will complete the innovative community engagement process started with the previous Legacy grant. CMSM will build upon the progress created with the previous Legacy grant by transitioning the team's focus to carrying-out of strategic access strategies that engage a diversity of community members in the exhibit development process, resulting in the completion of fabrication plans for exhibits and environments that are accessible; engaging; and reflect the diverse art, culture, and heritage of southern Minnesota.

Aitkin
Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
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Macalester College
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,550
To conduct a Phase I archaeological survey of 150 acres in the Katharine Ordway Natural History Study Area, Inver Grove Heights
Ramsey
Recipient
Germanic-American Institute
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,200
To repair and restore the gutter system and cornice assembly of the George W. Gardner House, a contributing feature of the Historic Hill District listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Ramsey
Recipient
Chinese American Academic and Professional Association in MN
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
To gather records of the organization on the occasion of its 20th anniversary meeting
Ramsey
Recipient
Concordia University (Library)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,285
To hire a qualified professional to conduct a preservation assessment survey of an art collection.
Ramsey
Recipient
1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,600
To research and write a script for an introductory video on the history of the Minnesota Governor's Residence (Horace Irvine House), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,650
To acquire professional services in preparing a Historic Landscape Report preparatory to improving public access the history of the Horace Irvine House/Governor's Residence, listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Ramsey
Recipient
1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To write and design a site guide for improved public access to the Minnesota Governor's Residence, which is the Horace Irvine House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
1006 Summit Avenue Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To produce a short video introduction about the history, architecture, and use of the Horace Irvine House (Minnesota Governor's Residence), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is working within the Leech Lake Reservation boundaries to address loss and degradation of aquatic habitat for wild rice and waterfowl. Efforts will include regulating water levels on shallow lakes by controlling beaver activity and conducting periodic water level draw-downs, reseeding of approximately 200 acres of wild rice, and implementing adaptive management based on analysis of wild rice productivity.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Itasca
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Minnesota Land Trust
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000

With this appropriation, the Minnesota Land Trust plans to protect approximately 500 acres of critical shoreline habitat along Minnesota's lakes, wetlands, rivers, and streams by securing permanent conservation easements and dedicating funds for their perpetual monitoring, management, and enforcement. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Becker, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Otter Tail, Pope, and Wabasha counties.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cass
Clay
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Meeker
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Todd
Waseca
Wright
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Ramsey County Law Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,095
To stabilize and conserve ten historic oil paintings (portraits of Minnesota Supreme Court justices) displayed in the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
American Aviation Heritage Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,990
To document in 10-12 interviews the commercial history of Villaume Box & Lumber Company, St. Paul, which built combat gliders during World War II.
Ramsey
Recipient
American Aviation Heritage Foundation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,909
To organize, catalog, and prepare a finding aid for documents, photographs, and other records relating to glider manufacture at Villaume Box & Lumber Co. in St. Paul during World War II
Ramsey
Recipient
MN Administrators of Special Education
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,450
To hire a qualified historian to research and prepare materials that will enable the public to more broadly access the story of people 21 years old and younger with disabilities, pre-1840 to 1960
Ramsey
Recipient
Hmong Cultural Center
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To assemble historic resources preparatory to fabrication and installation of an exhibit on the history of Hmong immigration in Minnesota
Ramsey
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,999
To research 16 prioritized anomalous readings on two previously undocumented maritime wrecks in Lake Minnetonka
Ramsey
Recipient
Envision Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
To professionally design web access to historical content of Legacy Letters vignettes
Ramsey
Recipient
Quatrefoil Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,432
To digitize and make accessible two Twin Cities-area LGBT newspapers, 1977-2000.
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

The Minnesota Land Trust provides coordination, mapping, and data management for the Metropolitan Conservation Corridors partnership. Funds are being used to coordinate the partnership, guide strategic outreach and implementation efforts, manage project data, and provide reporting and mapping of accomplishments.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Isanti
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Friends of the Mississippi River
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Friends of the Mississippi is using this appropriation to restore and enhance approximately 163 acres of permanently protected prairie and forest lands in Dakota, Washington, Ramsey, and Hennepin counties in order increase the amount of high quality habitat within designated conservation corridors. Specific activities will include updating management plans, soil preparation, prescribed burning, native vegetation installation, woody encroachment removal, and invasive species control.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington