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Unionville, CT

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Trails

Description: This project added a bike rack, benches and wayfinding signage to the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail.

Stratford, CT

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Trails

Description: To increase walkability, this project updated and digitized maps of 12 walking routes and installed four benches along the routes. The town hosted a kickoff event to encourage people of all ages to walk more often.

Jackson, MS

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Trails

Description: This project upgraded The Museum Trail with the addition of two gathering places, a mural, seating and lighting.

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Newark, NJ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: The project will install fencing around garden beds and provide supplies for older residents. Those residents will take over summer maintenance of a pilot garden project at a local elementary school.

Newark, NJ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: This intergenerational gardening project will provide girls aged 8 to 18 with an opportunity to pair up with elderly residents to garden together and grow produce in an area that is considered a food desert.

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