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Macon, GA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: A neglected community garden will be restored with raised beds for shared planting and learning. Gardening activities will increase access to fresh food while encouraging intergenerational connection.

Chesapeake, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: Residents in a low-income Chesapeake neighborhood lacked access to fresh food and safe spaces for social engagement. The project created an accessible community garden at a local library with raised beds, adaptive tools, wheelchair-friendly seating and Mobi-mat paths. Volunteers hosted a "Golden Age Garden Party" featuring health screenings, cooking demonstrations and chair yoga. The garden now provides fresh produce and a welcoming space for older adults to gather and exercise. "I now have access to fresh vegetables in my own backyard," said one resident.

Project description was created using generative AI and then reviewed for accuracy.

New Brunswick, NJ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: Volunteers and adults age 50-plus will expand a church community garden by adding raised beds. The garden will grow more fresh produce for a local food pantry and provide hands-on gardening and nutrition education.

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Flint, MI

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Park enhancements

Description: To make the Footbridge Park Plaza safer and more inviting, the Carriage Town Neighborhood Association added benches, trash receptacles and a dog clean-up station to the space. They also upgraded lighting, allowing visitors to more safely use the plaza at night. Many Carriage Town residents use the footbridge to walk to and from Flint's downtown. After the improvements, project organizers polled locals and found 80 percent said they were more likely to use the plaza. Neighbors have since begun work on a second plaza nearby.

Ortonville, MI

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026

Project Category: Expanding High-Speed Internet

Description: The project will add free public Wi-Fi and age-friendly digital access along Mill Street. Workshops will help older adults connect to health care and community life online and participate more fully downtown.

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