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star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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Smart Cities
This project aims to demonstrate smart cities innovation in rural communities by holding educational workshops on data analytics in local government, followed by an immersive quick-action demonstration project.

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Meeting with slide presentation.
Meeting with slide presentation.
Meeting on "The puzzle without a box: Extracting meaning from disparate data about senior housing needs."

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ABOUT THE AARP COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

Launched in 2017, the annual AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to local governments and nonprofits in order to fund quick-action, ready-to-implement projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages.

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