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Chelsea, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will create an intergenerational, accessible community garden at an elementary school, with eight raised beds and an accessible bench, as well as signs and decorative artwork created by the students.
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.
North Las Vegas, NV
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will revitalize a community garden, which is overdue for needed repairs, by creating wheelchair access and updating water lines.
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Iola, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project built a musical playground featuring outdoor, mounted instruments in a flower garden on the grounds of Allen County Regional Hospital.
Savonburg, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: City leaders hoped to give Savonburg residents a park suitable for people of all ages. The City, in partnership with a local service club, added a quarter-mile walking trail, ADA-compliant picnic tables and benches to the park. Built next to a new children's playground, the additions allow intergenerational families to enjoy the public greenspace.
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