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2024 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
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Digital Connections
└ Digital navigation skills
└ Digital navigation skills
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.
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El Dorado, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: Volunteers will teach a series of digital and financial literacy classes tailored to older adults. Two classes will specifically serve older veterans and people with disabilities, focusing on online tools and resources that benefit them.
Reno, NV
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: This project will expand technology classes in both English and Spanish for older adults to bridge the digital divide. Existing digital literacy classes had reached capacity, indicating high demand for the service.
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.
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
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AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
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