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Providence, RI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project engaged young people to grow herbs and vegetables which were given to older adults. It also helped create a second cookbook that preserves the older adults' recipes and stories.
Ellington, CT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The town will install a greenhouse at a senior center's garden, which grows produce for the local food pantry. The greenhouse will lengthen the growing season, enabling volunteers to garden during colder months.
New Orleans, LA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project created a community garden with twenty raised-bed garden boxes. Dillard University Community Relations also held six healthy-cooking demonstrations and four health fairs.
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Gaithersburg, MD
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: This project will provide older adults with one-on-one technology lessons. High school students will teach participants to complete online forms, access health portals and participate in telehealth appointments.
Potomac, MD
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will provide ergonomic tools at a local food pantry's gardening space, allowing volunteers of all ages and abilities to grow fresh produce.
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