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Montpelier, VT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project created a pop-up produce stand to distribute affordable food from Montpelier's city farm. Additionally, the City made improvements to an area outside its older adult center to create a space for weekly outdoor gatherings.
Macon, GA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will expand a community garden in a park, adding raised beds for growing healthy food. The initiative will also improve park aesthetics with new benches, trees, flowers and a mural, creating a space for residents to play checkers, chess and card games.
San Diego, CA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project turned a patch of dirt in Linda Vista Community Park into a garden. Today, the site provided produce for a local environmental learning center. The garden also serves as an alternative food source in an area that's considered a food desert.
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Imperial Beach, CA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Bike Audits
Description: This project will conduct four bike audits along the Bayshore Bikeway trail and major avenues, and hold four community meetings in English and Spanish.
Chula Vista, CA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Developing projects based on residents' priorities
Description: To honor community elders and bring awareness to the value of older adults in the community, the City of Chula Vista invited older residents to submit photographs and stories of their lives. They then selected several to adorn banners, which the City displayed on light posts along major streets. Additionally, the banners included the URL for a website where residents can read the featured stories and find age-friendly resources. This program ensures that the older adults in our lives know that they are appreciated for the important role they have in our community, Mayor Mary Casillas Salas said.
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