Minnesota's Legacy

Voyageurs Conservancy helps to introduce Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota’s only national park, to K-12 students through outdoor education and virtual workshops.

Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota are building robots to monitor the water quality of Minnesota’s lakes. And they are recruiting middle schoolers around the state to build the robots and collect data!

When a big one gets away, it’s not just anglers who lose out; Minnesota’s loons and lakes pay the price for leftover lead.

Wabasha’s Project Get Outdoors is developing self-guided tours across Southeastern Minnesota that connect children with both natural environments and local history, drawing inspiration from Iowa's Freedom Trail documenting Underground Railroad pathways. Project Get Outdoors interviewed descendants of 10-12 abolitionists and crowd-sourced stories through a Facebook group as a part of their research.

Duluth’s Noatun Community Wooden Boat Works uses Legacy Funds to carry on the multicultural tradition of wooden boat building on the shores of Lake Superior.

The Minneapolis American Indian Center is using technology – like short form video and music production – to teach Dakota and Ojibwe to young people in the Twin Cities.

Midwest Food Connection, based in the Twin Cities, is digging into the flavors, crops, and memories in Minnesota’s African American food traditions.

Sabin Adams grew up hunting pheasants. Now, he works to protect their habitat as the Minnesota Coordinator for Pheasants Forever, which partners with the Minnesota Prairie Chicken Society to conserve the ecosystems of pheasants and other prairie game birds.

As a child, Jesús E. Purisaca Ruiz dreamed of learning guitar. Through Minneapolis’s Guitarra en el Barrio, he helps young students turn their 

Croatian Hall is the last of the South St. Paul social halls built by European immigrants in the early 20th Century and a project of the Hrvatski Dom Association.