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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Diversity and inclusion
A diverse,low-income,multigenerational neighborhood will have an existing pocket park improved by planting trees, adding a bench, and installing a multilingual information kiosk.

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New kiosk at park with community members.
Sign on kiosk.
Group planting trees.

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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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