Talent Maker City Print

star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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This project will improve older adults engagement with the downtown community by using innovative intergenerational programming focused on empowering older adults to use STEAM skills such as carpentry, screen-printing and more in the citys downtown maker space.

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Collage of photos building a Bee Hotel out of wood.
Woman with wood-burned art.
Participants sanding wood.

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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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