Category: Stewardship Fund

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September 30, 2025

MWMO Awards $146,389 in Stewardship Fund Grants and Advances Three Water-Quality Studies

New Green Infrastructure Projects Planned for Fridley and Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS — The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) approved a new round of Stewardship Fund Grants totaling $146,389.72 and advanced five water-quality and habitat...

A rendering of the planned landscape at NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center.

Breaking Ground on New Green Infrastructure Projects in the Watershed

Here at the MWMO, the vast majority of our annual budget goes toward green infrastructure projects — landscape features that capture, treat and/or reuse stormwater runoff. This is the time […]
April 5, 2019
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Close-up photo of a girl reading a book. (Shutterstock)

Help Your Kids Learn about Protecting Water with these Fun and Colorful Books

Winter has arrived! What a great time of year to huddle with your kids, break out the hot chocolate and grab a few books to read. Some fun new additions […]
January 10, 2019
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Smiling boy holding a plant.

In Fridley, students learn how to be good neighbors to the Mississippi River

Last week, a small army of students at Stevenson Elementary School mobilized to fill the school’s new rain garden with plants. We captured the event in a time-lapse video; as […]
June 14, 2018
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Screen shot from the "Watershed" music video.

Everything you need to know about chloride pollution, in the form of a music video

By day, Mark Pedelty, Tim Gustafson and Robert Poch are professors at the University of Minnesota. By night, the trio form The Hypoxic Punks, an environmentally conscious folk-punk band spreading […]
February 15, 2018
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Project partners at Hall's Island.

Great partnerships made 2017 a successful year for the MWMO

As we consider our accomplishments over the past year, it’s always tempting to think in terms of numbers: how many big projects were completed, how many ribbon-cuttings or ground-breakings were […]
December 28, 2017
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Students painting a watershed trash can mural.

Art project inspires community to protect the Mississippi River

She’d had enough! Rebecca Krueger, a Columbia Heights resident, artist, and art educator, was thoroughly frustrated with the amount of trash she found in her neighborhood. Blowing litter and other […]
November 6, 2017
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Parishioners at the rain garden ceremony at Judson Memorial Baptist Church.

Church’s rain garden project empowers and educates all ages

Judson Memorial Baptist Church, a congregation on the southwest side of the MWMO watershed, recently installed three rain gardens — and started growing water stewards of all ages in the […]
October 25, 2017
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East Side Water Watch students holding a dragonfly.

East Side Neighborhood Services youth become ‘water watchers’

Like many of us, James Taborda-Whitt hadn’t spent much time thinking about the value of the Mississippi River and its surrounding watershed. Sure, it’s one of the largest rivers in […]
October 5, 2017
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How a teacher used a rain garden to promote hands-on learning

Few teachers would tolerate students standing on their desks and shouting, much less encourage it. But for science teacher Yosefa Carriger, nothing is off the table if it will help […]
June 29, 2017
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