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Lansing, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Reconnect Communities
Description: This project will foster local advocacy for small, neighborhood-based transportation improvements, part of efforts to heal a community bisected by highway construction in the 1960s. Older residents will help plan, design and implement infrastructure projects that are eligible for federal funding.
Atlanta, GA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Reconnect Communities
Description: This oral history project will engage students to interview residents who were displaced when Interstate 20 was built. Additionally, the multimedia initiative will create a map of homes demolished during construction and provide content for a podcast and public performance.
St. Paul, MN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Reconnect Communities
Description: This project will create a virtual reality production depicting life in the Rondo neighborhood before, during and after a 1960s Interstate highway project split the community in two. Organizers will ask older residents to contribute their stories.
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Denver, CO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: This computer literacy project will teach Spanish-speaking older adults to navigate the internet and use software. Instructors will tailor each lesson based on the needs of the group.
Denver, CO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Public or private transit access
Description: This project will train older adults to navigate public transit, allowing them to run errands, go to doctors' appointments and attend social events independently
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