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Jersey City, NJ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: This project provided Wi-Fi-enabled tablets to seniors in a public housing development. College students offered one-on-one digital literacy training.

Wells, NV

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: Two centers for older adults received laptops and tablets. To help people navigate the new technology, high school-aged volunteers provided instruction how to use the devices.

International Falls, MN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Digital navigation skills

Description: The county will engage high school students to teach digital skills to older adult residents and veterans. A local business will provide low-cost, used laptops loaded with software, which participants can keep after the training.

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Jersey City, NJ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Public space activation

Description: To give residents at Marion Gardens the opportunity to gather, project organizers beautified a concrete area onsite. Residents of the public housing complex came together to plant trees, shrubs and flowers in an area of the property prone to flooding, with the new foliage acting as green infrastructure to absorb rainwater. To ensure care of the new trees long-term, project organizers also created a tree maintenance manual with pruning techniques and other tips. Since the planting, organizers have worked to plan a mural at the site.

Jersey City, NJ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Entrepreneurship and improved economic resilience

Description: This project will offer digital literacy and professional development training to help older adult workers transition from manual labor to office jobs, including those in remote or hybrid settings.

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