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Baltimore, MD
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: This initiative will provide Spanish-language digital training to build on a successful laptop distribution program. Participants will learn skills to use devices safely, access online services and support neighbors as peer educators.
Nashville, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: Older adults in North Nashville faced digital barriers that limited access to health care, financial tools and social connection. The YMCA launched a Digital Connectivity Pilot with 23 computer lab sessions staffed by local HBCU students. It also hosted three Lunch and Learn workshops on telehealth, estate planning and financial literacy. These efforts helped participants gain confidence using technology. One member said the program's telehealth training made them less scared to seek care remotely. Others learned to prevent scams and manage retirement accounts. The YMCA plans to expand this model across its six-county service area.
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Norristown, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: A local Senior Center will offer structured, bilingual guided computer lab sessions. Participants will build confidence using devices and online tools for everyday tasks and ongoing social connection.
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Burlington, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: Short disaster preparedness trainings will serve 140 older adult households following recent severe storms. The sessions will help restore confidence by sharing clear steps for emergency readiness.
Greensboro, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: Creativity as a Catalyst for Inclusion, a project of the Creative Aging Network, worked to create a community garden and outdoor classroom for community events. Assembling a team of volunteers and community activists, they cleaned up the grounds, built raised garden beds, created walking paths and planted native vegetation. A local artisan created custom benches for the garden, created from the wood of a fallen tree on the property. To bring people into the space, local artists led a series of workshops onsite. Project organizers say activities programmed for the garden are meant to be inclusive and appeal to people of all ages and abilities.
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