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Westminster, MD
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: This project will conduct disaster preparedness training for volunteers. Volunteers will visit residents age 50-plus to distribute disaster preparedness kits and provide information.
Perry, FL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: This project will recruit and train volunteers to become certified CERT members. Training sessions will cover basic first aid, fire safety, and disaster medical operations.
Mobile, AL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: This project will feature three educational events. Participants will learn disaster pre-planning, receive checklists in English and Spanish, and get essential preparedness supplies.
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Bowdoinham, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The Town of Bowdoinham provided elevated planters to six residents who, because of disabilities, could not maintain traditional, in-the-ground gardens. Members of the local Masons Lodge constructed the raised beds and delivered soil to each recipient. To showcase the planters, the Town hosted a community meal featuring local produce, which included a presentation about the benefits of raised beds. In addition, the Town founded a garden club, which meets monthly.
Bowdoinham, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Lifelong housing and accessibility
Description: The town will develop a plain language guide promoting the use of Universal Design as an approach to more inclusive, safe and accessible housing for people of all ages and abilities.
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