AARP Liveable Communities Grants Application Period Open Thru' April 1 for Quick-Action Projects

Native American Tribe Uses AARP Grant
to Build Community Garden

Less than six months after receiving an AARP Community Challenge Grant of $15,000, Delaware Nation volunteers in Oklahoma created a community garden to help tribal members get better access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

The proposal, for [raised garden beds], elevated so volunteers of all ages and abilities can help grow the produce, is one of 159 projects in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands that AARP helped financed in 2019 —the fourth year of the program— with nearly $1.6 million in seed money….