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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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Public places
The Growing Community Initiative, a public art initiative inviting local artists to design and install artworks in selected local community gardens, will help promote creativity and celebrate the areas diverse community.

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Building raised garden beds with mural.
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Harvesting peppers at community garden.

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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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