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Denver, CO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: This project will feature three educational events for older LGBTQ adults and allies. Participants will review disaster planning, receive a fireproof box, develop a Disaster Plan, and discuss useful technology.
Brevard, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: The project will conduct four in-person trainings on disaster planning a year after Hurricane Helene. Disaster checklists and supplies will be provided, along with a video on survivor guilt and trauma.
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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