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star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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Public places
This project will revitalize an underutilized parking lot in the downtown arts district of San Jos with a demonstration garden, farm stand, dog park, a mobile food vending hub, and artistic murals.

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Artist Mario Dimas with his mural of food and culture.
Volunteers planting garden beds.
Bilingual flyer for farmstands.

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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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