Grantee Database

This database contains a representative list of grants approved since 2004. Grants appear alphabetically by organization name, with most recent grants first. Unless otherwise specified, grants are for general operating support.
185 results found

Center for Civic Participation

Minneapolis MN

for a communications effort to increase land and water protection in the Greater Blue Earth Watershed

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $35,000

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chicago IL

to improve sustainable water quality policies and practices

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $50,000

to improve sustainable water quality policies and practices

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $10,000

Center for Rural Affairs

Lyons NE

for efforts to encourage sustainable farming in the Mississippi River Basin

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $80,000

for the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $90,000

to improve federal policies that advance sustainable farming

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $90,000

for the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $150,000

to improve federal policies that advance sustainable farming

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $70,000

to identify policy options for increasing soil carbon on farmland and improving water quality

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $12,500

for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's agriculture and conservation policy development work

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $345,000

to support work to reduce agriculture pollution in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $110,000

to support travel, lodging, and notetaking for the MRBI meeting

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $20,000

to support work to reduce agriculture pollution in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $120,000

for National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s work to reduce agricultural pollution and increase conservation practices among farmers in the Mississippi River Basin

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $475,000

Ceres, Inc.

Boston MA

for a scoping project on water quality impacts and U.S. corn and soybean supply chains

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $40,000

Charles K. Blandin Foundation

Grand Rapids MN

to support the Minnesota Forest Legacy Partnership

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $1,000,000

City of Minneapolis

Minneapolis MN

to strengthen Minneapolis riverfront revitalization efforts

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $60,000

City of Winona

Winona MN

For the completion of a trail and facility development plan for Aghaming Park

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $71,972

Clean Up The River Environment

Montevideo MN

to restore the Upper Minnesota River watershed

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $90,000

to restore the Upper Minnesota River watershed

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $150,000

to restore the Upper Minnesota River watershed

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $90,000

to restore the Minnesota River watershed

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $135,000

Clean Water Network

Washington DC

to reduce pollution in the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $100,000

to strengthen government policies to reduce pollution in the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $75,000

Clean Wisconsin, Inc.

Madison WI

to improve policies to reduce polluted runoff into the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $50,000

to improve policies to reduce polluted runoff into the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $50,000

to improve policies to reduce polluted runoff into the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $120,000

to implement two phosphorus pollution-reduction pilot projects in two regions of the state

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $100,000

Conservation Minnesota

Minneapolis MN

For an organization that works to connect and support Minnesota's environmental community

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $15,000

to expand advocacy on water quality issues

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $75,000

to expand advocacy on water quality issues

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $60,000

to strengthen the outreach capacity of advocacy organizations

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $100,000

to build capacity for Conservation Minnesota and other Minnesota-based environmental nonprofits to engage their constituents

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $75,000

to build capacity for Conservation Minnesota and its partners to activate citizens in support of policies to reduce agricultural pollution to Minnesota waters

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $50,000

Cooperative Development Fund of CDS

Madison WI

To expand and implement the Midwest Food Alliance, a program that promotes sustainable agriculture

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $110,000

to expand the Food Alliance Midwest, a program that promotes sustainable farming and creates markets for sustainably grown food

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $150,000

to support Food Alliance Midwest, a program that promotes sustainable farming and increases demand for sustainably grown food

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $150,000

to support the Food Alliance Midwest, and to investigate a water quality credit trading program for farm-supply cooperatives in Wisconsin

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $140,000

Cornell University

Ithaca NY

to conduct a corn nitrogen use reduction project using the Adapt-N tool

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $55,000

Dubuque County Historical Society

Dubuque IA

to support "The Mississippi: Rivers to the Sea" program

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $100,000

to design and implement a national communications campaign for restoring the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $450,000

for efforts to secure funding for restoring Louisiana's coast to buffer the region from future storm events

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $25,000

for a network of educational exhibits and kiosks about restoring the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $375,000

Ducks Unlimited, Inc.

Memphis TN

for wetland and shallow lakes restoration in Iowa

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $50,000

for conservation, public policy, and educational outreach efforts along the Mississippi River corridor

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $800,000

for conserving land and promoting policies that benefit the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $560,000

for conserving critical wetlands and promoting policies that benefit the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $480,000

to advance conservation and wetland restoration in the upper Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $300,000