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star-24px 2024 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Digital Connections
└ Digital navigation skills
This project will create a mobile tech classroom to host training sessions on smartphone and laptop use for older adults. The digital training helps foster older adults' independence and reduces their feelings of isolation.

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Forestdale (2024)

New York City, NY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: This project will recruit teenagers to teach digital skills to older adults. The initiative will help participants use the internet to conduct business, obtain benefits and reduce social isolation.

The Caraway Foundation (2022)

Wadesboro, NC

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: This project provided people 50-plus with training in technology, led by volunteers. Each participant received a tablet and laptop that could be taken home. The tablets became theirs to keep after the six-week program.

Red Bird Mission (2023)

Bell County, KY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: In this intergenerational project, high school students will build leadership skills by teaching basic computer skills to older rural residents.

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City of Tallulah (2019)

Tallulah, LA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019

Project Category: Roadway/sidewalks/crosswalk improvement

Description: The City of Tallulah set out to beautify a walkway in its central business district. The area is home to many community resources, including a grocery store, bank, post office, library, retail stores and public offices. In addition to giving people a pleasant route to walk, the project made crosswalks more visible to drivers, making crossing the street safer.

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