Major Grants Awarded in February 2008
$10,000.00 to Kenosha Public Museums
for Civil War Museum Theatre Program
$10,000.00 to Southern Wisconsin Bluegrass Music Association, Inc. of Madison
for The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance
$4,946.00 to Milwaukee County Historical Society
for Interpretive Plan for Milwaukee History Exhibit
$4,683.00 to Kenosha Literacy Council, Inc.
for Project Journey
Mini Grants Awarded in January 2007
$2,000.00 to the Historic Preservation Association of Marshfield
for The Great Depression
$2,000.00 to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum of Wausau
for Up in Arms: Exploring the History and Culture of Armor
$2,000.00 to the Montello Historic Preservation Societ
for Looking Back: The Photography of Dr. E. A. Bass
$2,000.00 to New Horizons North of Ashland
for the Triumphof the Human Spirit: Stories of Chequamegon Area Disability Pioneers
$1,685.00 to the Outagamie County Historical Society of Appleton
for Research for a History Museum Exhibition
$1,142.00 to UW-Madison General Library System
for 2008 Wisconsin Oral History Day
$1,029.00 to the Bay Area Film Society of Ashland
for Corn inour Lives: A Community Conversation
Mini Grants Awarded in March 2007
$2,000.00 to Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society of WI, Inc.
for '07 Summer Chamber Music Festival: Sweet Sixteen pre-concert chats and program notes
$2,000.00 to Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center of Madison
for The Wright 3 Book Club Program
$2,000.00 to River Arts, Inc. of Prairie du Sac
for Sauk Prairie Between Fences Expo: Boundary, Space and Place Writers' Workshop
$1,951.00 to Central Middle School Band of Waukesha
for Understanding and Experiencing Multicultural and World Music Through Band Performance
Mini Grants Awarded in May 2007
$2,000.00 to Friends of the Military Ridge Trail of Ridgeway
for Routes Along the Ridge
$2,000.00 to One Book One Community of Green Bay
for One Book One Community—promotion and film events
$2,000.00 to Wormfarm Institute of Reedsburg
for The Re-enchantment of Agriculture
$1,997.00 to Cable Natural History Museum
for Creating Community Conversations
$1,950.00 to River Falls Community Arts Base
for Poetry on the River, 2007: A Children's Poetry Writing Project
Major Grants Awarded in June 2007
$10,000.00 to Lawrence University of Appleton
for Lawrence University ArtsBridge
$10,000.00 to Madison Children's Museum of Madison
for Hmong at Heart
$10,000.00 to UW-M Graduate School Office of Research Services and Administration (for UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education)
for Milwaukee Celebration of the Wisconsin Book Festival
$10,000.00 to UW-Marathon County
for Journeys to American Identities
$9,177.00 to Douglas County Historical Society of Superior
for Superior's Labor Movement Project
$8,373.00 to UW-Extension Cooperative Extension
for Western Wisconsin Rural Immigration Summit
$8,200.00 to National Railroad Museum of Green Bay
for The Pullman Porters: From Service to Civil Rights
$7,150.00 to Edgerton Area Chamber of Commerce (for The Sterling North Society Book & Film Festival Committee)
for Edgerton's Sterling North Book and Film Festival
Mini Grants Awarded in July 2007
$2,000.00 to Clear Lake Area Community Center, Inc.
for Midwestern Regional Wisconsin Photographic History Project
$2,000.00 to Milwaukee Public Television
for The War in Wisconsin
$2,000.00 to University of Wisconsin - Barron County
for Sustainable Literatures 2007-08 Reading Series, Community Seminar & Community Creative Writing Workshops
$1,000.00 to The Center for the Humanities, UW-Madison
for One Hundred Years of Solitude in Wisconsin
$1,000.00 to St. Croix Falls Public Library
for Big Read Book Distribution, Northwest Wisconsin
$750.00 to Waupaca Area Public Library
for Lunch n' Learn with The Surley Surveyor, Rob Nurre (Between Fences Program)
Mini Grants Awarded in September
$2,000.00 to Cable-Namakagon Historical Museum
for Between Fences Companion Exhibit
$2,000.00 to Stahl-Conrad Homestead of Hales Corners
for Between Fences
$2,000.00 to The Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance of Prairie du Sac
for Badger Army Ammunition Plant: Inside the Fence Guided Bus Tours
$1,444.00 to Lawton Memorial Library of La Farge
for A More Perfect Union: Domestic Tranquility
Mini Grants Awarded in October
$10,000.00 to Paper Arts Festival of Appleton
for Fox Cities Book Festival, Connecting Writers and Readers
$10,000.00 to Wild Space Dance Company of Milwaukee
for Map Of Memories
$9,987.00 to Milwaukee County Historical Society
for Milwaukee Outdoors: A Century of the County Parks System
$7,574.00 to The Wisconsin Institute of Public Policy and Service of Wausau
for The Central Wisconsin Ethics of Stem Cell Research Conference
Mini Grants Awarded in November
$2,000.00 to The Cedarburg Cultural Center
for Interpretive Brochure for the Kuhefuss House Museum
$2,000.00 to Friends of the Kickapoo Valley Reserve of La Farge
for "Between Fences" Programs
$2,000.00 to UW-Fond du Lac
for Global Warming in Wisconsin: causes, effects, politics, solutions
$2,000.00 to Viterbo University of La Crosse
for Friendship: The Other Family