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Windsor Locks, CT

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: This project will transform an underutilized alley into a downtown community gardening and socializing space that includes garden beds and outdoor seating.

Camp Hill, AL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: The project will create a rural community garden which will grow produce to improve the diets of older residents, while also providing them with a safe place to get exercise by walking.

Richmond, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Community Gardens

Description: The Greater Richmond Age Wave Coalition hoped to beautify the Green Park neighborhood and foster relationships between neighbors. To do this, the nonprofit worked to provide community gardening opportunities to residents. To allow older adults to grow produce at home, the nonprofit built 25 garden boxes. Additionally, they created an outdoor courtyard space with raised garden beds at Highland Park Apartments. The Coalition hired local youth to construct and deliver the self-water boxes. The Coalition also held two community gardening events. To help people participate, they offset a portion of public transportation fares for attendees. The Age Wave Coalition's gardening efforts operate under the talent-sharing model, which connects experienced gardeners with people interested learning more about growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs.

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Saint Paul, MN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: HomeFit Modifications

Description: This project will have staff visit the homes of older adults in need to provide small-scale repairs and make safety improvements.

St. Paul, MN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Reconnect Communities

Description: This project will create a virtual reality production depicting life in the Rondo neighborhood before, during and after a 1960s Interstate highway project split the community in two. Organizers will ask older residents to contribute their stories.

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