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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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Diversity and inclusion
Bringing together students, seniors and artists, this project will create a community-centered artist mural installation that will bring life and color to a new grocery store in an area that was previously a food desert.

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Large check presentation in front of mural.
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Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG)

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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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