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Central Falls, RI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: To transform a green space into an attraction for people of all ages, this project installed amenities such as seating and tables for dominoes and chess.
Richford, VT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project will support efforts to create a welcome center at a downtown outdoor space. The new space will feature seating, raised garden beds and a community food pantry, which will offer residents free produce grown onsite.
Iola, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project built a musical playground featuring outdoor, mounted instruments in a flower garden on the grounds of Allen County Regional Hospital.
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Mobile, AL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project renovated walkways around the museum's community garden to make them fully ADA-compliant.
Mobile, AL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: Victory Teaching Farm in midtown Mobile is an urban teaching farm that aims to teach locals the benefits of growing their own food in a sustainable way. This project built a garden deck designed to be accessible for people with disabilities. The deck features a ramp for those who use wheelchairs, along with raised garden beds of various heights. Victory joined with AARP Alabama for a ribbon-cutting ceremony in December 2017, and a large group of adults with disabilities and special needs participated. Since then, Victory Teaching Garden continues to promote urban gardening for everyone with events. This included hosting a virtual What's Growing On advice session with AARP Alabama in March 2022.
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