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2022 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
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└ Community Gardens
└ Community Gardens
The project recruited volunteers and installed raised beds at community gardens located at food banks and centers for older adults.
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Columbus, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project created a community garden with raised garden beds and seating, so that people of all ages and abilities could enjoy the space.
Opa-locka, FL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: For Opa-Locka residents, the closest supermarket is more than a mile away, making fresh produce in this low-income community hard to come by. The Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation conducted an extensive community engagement process to determine what kinds of fresh produce the community needed most. They then responded by planting 14 fruit trees -- as well as herbs -- in the common area of a multifamily residential development. The CDC also installed lighting, benches and other amenities in the space, allowing residents to gather there.
Clarksville, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project created a community garden at the Wade Bourne Nature Center.
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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.
Rochester Hills, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This grant set out to create an intergenerational exercise space in Bloomer Park. Equipment for the space includes apparatuses for building core muscles, improving posture and working the upper and lower body. Additionally, the space features a water fountain and benches.
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