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Lihue, HI

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Public art installations

Description: This project created thirteen murals around Lihue, installed six Wi-Fi hotspots at bus stops and planted native trees and garden beds along Rice Street.

Las Cruces, NM

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Public art installations

Description: This project will help community members beautify a revitalizing downtown through a participatory paint-by-numbers mural on the wall of a nonprofit makerspace.

Newton, KS

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Public art installations

Description: This project will convert the back of a billboard into a mixed-media mural depicting figures and images representing Kansas history, adding vibrancy to a park located near a train station.

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Banner Elk, NC

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Innovative home maintenance, repair and support services

Description: The project will work with local social service agencies to identify older adults whose homes are in need of repairs or aging-in-place modifications. Young volunteers who are being trained at home repair camps will perform the improvements.

Abingdon, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Public or private transit access

Description: The town will improve accessibility and transportation access to help residents reach a local recreation center. This project will improve parking options at the center and promote public transportation use through transit training opportunities.

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