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2023 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
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└ Community Gardens
└ Community Gardens
This project will provide benches and raised beds for a newly-created community garden, as well as install raised garden beds near senior apartment buildings.
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
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San Juan, PR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will install four raised beds and two accessible benches in an existing community garden, which is located in a low-income area with many older residents.
Salt Lake City, UT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: Salt Lake City's Taylorsville neighborhood is home to refugee families from Syria, Myanmar and Afghanistan. Many new residents, however, struggle with social isolation. To help people feel connected, Salt Lake County created a community garden at the local senior center. Volunteers built four raised beds and the County provided ergonomic gardening equipment, seeds and starter plants. Project organizers say the opportunity to garden gives older adults -- who were often farmers and ranchers in their native countries -- a renewed sense of purpose. Gardening also allows them to form relationships with their neighbors.
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: Vacant lots in Harrisburg's Allison Hill neighborhood -- which make up about a third of the neighborhood's land area -- were overgrown with weeds and debris, attracted crime and often served as illegal dumping sites. To address this, the Tri County Community Organization set out to clean up eight lots. Volunteers cleared the sites of debris, installed fencing and planted low-maintenance grass that only grows to six inches in height. This project opens up the space so that there's no place to hide for crime, so this project really helps to bring beauty to the neighborhood, Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator Donnell Brown said. Now that the lots are cleaned up, project organizers hope the spaces will help raise property values, as well as provide residents with a gathering space.
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Engaging residents in vibrant public places
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