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Waukegan, IL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: This project will help low-income older adults obtain an affordable internet subscription. Additionally, participants will receive free laptop or tablet, along with in digital literacy training.

International Falls, MN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: The county will engage high school students to teach digital skills to older adult residents and veterans. A local business will provide low-cost, used laptops loaded with software, which participants can keep after the training.

Little Rock, AR

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: This project will increase digital literacy among older adults by creating a mobile tech classroom that staff can take into assisted living facilities to conduct workshops on how to operate devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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New York City, NY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Digital Connectivity for Disasters

Description: The project will provide older adults with bilingual technology and emergency preparedness education. This will include how-to workshops on cellphone and computer use and instruction on avoiding digital scams and phishing.

New York, NY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Access to high-speed internet

Description: This project will provide free, in-unit Wi-Fi access in affordable housing apartments for low-income and formerly homeless older adults.

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