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star-24px 2023 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public places
This project will transform a park by staging a vibrant pop-up community celebration and organizing workshops where older adults can become involved in decisions about how to improve their community.

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Nearby AARP Community Challenge Grantees

City of West Sacramento

West Sacramento, CA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Transportation

Description: The grant money was used to improve pedestrian safety by adjusting signal timing and installing pedestrian-controlled crosswalk buttons near a housing development occupied by older adults.

City of West Sacramento

West Sacramento, CA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Transportation

Description: The City of West Sacramento, through this grant, created an on-demand car and bicycle transportation system, enabling social and civic engagement.

ABOUT THE AARP COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

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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