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Chelsea, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will create an intergenerational, accessible community garden at an elementary school, with eight raised beds and an accessible bench, as well as signs and decorative artwork created by the students.
Moab, UT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project provided 25 kneepads to aid the Youth Garden Project's 250 volunteers.
Windham, CT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The project will create a community gardening program to help older adults grow food locally. It will enrich the design of a new green space at a senior center and will provide tools and weekly group sessions led by a master gardener.
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Chattanooga, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: To help combat social isolation, the City of Chattanooga's Department of Youth and Family Development provided older adults with Chromebooks, mouses and hotspots to allow them to connect to the internet. Additionally, the City offered digital skills classes at several locations to help them use the devices. Project organizers say the COVID-19 pandemic limited opportunities for social interaction for many residents. This project provided vulnerable residents with internet access and know-how, allowing them to build and maintain interpersonal relationships.
Chattanooga, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Supporting family caregivers
Description: The project will support student caregivers and their families to grow their own food and access healthier food options.
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