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Tallulah, LA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: This project will create a mobile tech classroom to host training sessions on smartphone and laptop use for older adults. The digital training helps foster older adults' independence and reduces their feelings of isolation.
El Dorado, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: Volunteers will teach a series of digital and financial literacy classes tailored to older adults. Two classes will specifically serve older veterans and people with disabilities, focusing on online tools and resources that benefit them.
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.
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Trenton, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Public space improvements to support recovery after extreme weather events
Description: To honor first responders who saved lives during Hurricane Florence, the Town of Trenton planned to develop a new park. The green space's design focuses on mobility and includes a freshwater pond, memorial and gathering space for entertainment. Organizers hope the project helps the community as it recovers from the storm.
Vanceboro, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Resources about housing options, safety and services
Description: This project built one housing unit as a model for socially conscious and environmentally-friendly homelessness reduction for residents with high barriers to employment.
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