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In 2008, Minnesota voters passed the Clean Water, Land,
and Legacy Amendment (Legacy Amendment) to the
Minnesota Constitution. The Legacy Amendment enhances,
restores, and protects our water, prairies, forests, fish and
game, and wildlife habitat. The Legacy Amendment also
preserves and celebrates our arts and culture heritage.
The Legislature created four funds to achieve the goals of the
Legacy Amendment. One of the funds is known as the Arts and
Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF). The Minnesota Humanities Center
receives funds from ACHF to manage competitive grant processes
and to make direct appropriation grants to organizations.
During the last legislative session, MHC was provided ACHF appropriations to manage the following
competitive grant processes: Music and Cultural Festivals, Cultural and Ethnic Studies - materials
to support students from cultures that are largely orally-based - and scholarships for Music, Craft
and Folk Arts, Performing Arts, Dance and Theater. The Legislature also provided funding for
MHC to provide direct appropriation grants and supplemental funding for Cultural Heritage grants.
The communities identified by the Minnesota Legislature for Cultural Heritage grants included African
American, Asian and Pacific Island, Indigenous, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, Somali diaspora, and other
underrepresented cultural groups.
Learn more about our grants processes at mnhum.org/grants
I was very burnt out from leading TQH as an unpaid volunteer
while working 2–3 jobs to make ends meet. I was planning to tell
my volunteer leadership team that I was ready to quit. I felt really
overwhelmed with relief when I was told that there might be an
opportunity to receive funding.
I called and cried with relief
that MHC even saw us as
worthy of this kind of support
for our organization.
We were awarded a few thousand
dollars, and it changed the course
of TQH and my life.
— RJ/Rebecca Lawrence, Founder and Executive Director, Telling Queer History
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