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Roanoke, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: To combat food insecurity, improve neighborhood safety and encourage residents to spend time outdoors, this project enhanced an existing community garden. Over several community work days volunteers installed raised beds, benches, a picnic table and portable toilet facilities. Organizers hope the improvements make the garden more accessible to people of all ages -- including older adults living in nearby apartment complexes.

Washington, DC

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: This project will create a community garden for low-income older adults, many of whom live in apartment complexes without outdoor space. The volunteer gardeners will grow produce typically used in Latin American cuisine. The crops will then be distributed to members of the community.

Portsmouth, NH

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: This project will create a community garden with raised garden beds and vertical gardens to enable older residents of local senior housing communities to grow their own food.

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Cheyenne, OK

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Accessibility of amenities

Description: This project installed railings and a ramp to improve accessibility within the 1940s theatre.

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