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Minneapolis, MN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: Progressive Pathways set out to help residents think realistically about what they would need during summer storms and flooding, since many had never planned for an emergency or talked with neighbors about how to respond. The sessions encouraged people to consider items for their bug-out bags and opened conversations that helped neighbors understand how they could support one another. The gatherings also built new social networks and led to a partnerships that will extend preparedness resources. Residents left with clearer ideas about how to manage future emergencies and will receive ongoing materials and reminders.
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Hartwell, GA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: Train‑the‑trainer sessions will prepare participants to share disaster preparedness guidance. Attendees will receive bilingual checklists and basic emergency supplies.
Keiser, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: Hands‑on disaster readiness training will help Keiser residents age 50 and older prepare for local emergencies. Shared activities will encourage neighborhood involvement and preparedness.
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East Pittsburgh, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: An underused neighborhood space will be transformed into an accessible community garden. The garden will offer older adults better access to fresh food, safe outdoor activity and a place to gather and connect with others.
Pittsburgh, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: Grounded Strategies transformed a vacant lot in Pittsburgh's Central Hill District into a community garden. The organization relied on what is calls its ReClaim Ambassador model, which connects experts with vulnerable communities to repurpose vacant land and revitalize neighborhoods. To create the Peace, Love and Friendship Garden, the ambassador for this project worked with corporate donors, volunteers and nonprofit partners. Meant to offset the closure of a local grocery store, the garden features 72 raised beds where residents can grow vegetables. Grounded Strategies is now working with partner organization Grow Pittsburgh to create programming for the space.
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