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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Diversity and inclusion
To bring internet access social connection to underserved neighborhoods with limited internet access, this project will install solar charging tables and shade structures with wireless hotspots painted by local artists.

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Solar charging table in community park.
Mural painted on concrete under solar charging table.
Second solar charging table and mural.

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Launched in 2017, the annual AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to local governments and nonprofits in order to fund quick-action, ready-to-implement projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages.

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