🎉We are a 2021 AARP Community Challenge grantee!
The Flint Hill KVCDC is thrilled to announce we have been selected to receive a 2021 AARP Community Challenge grant. We are one of only 244 grantees selected from across all 50 states, Washington D.C, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
With this “quick-action” grant we will be able to launch the Downtown Henderson Art & Heritage Walk with an all new public art and oral history program, installing a new Henderson Black Heritage mural and several artistic crosswalks in intersections throughout Downtown. All new and existing public art pieces will receive new signage directing locals and visitors around Downtown to each art location, and interviews with locals related to each piece will be conducted for recorded oral histories available through our website and local university and public libraries. The nonprofit is actively searching for volunteers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds interested in participating in any aspect of this exciting project. Absolutely no artistic talent is required! Volunteers can sign up to participate by filling out the registration form at www.hendersonartwalk.com/volunteer.
“We are incredibly proud that AARP selected the Flint Hill KVCDC to receive this grant,” stated Rev. Dr. Conrad Pridgen, Board Director. “AARP is a nationwide leader on making neighborhoods, towns, and cities more livable for all residents and we are honored that they see the tangible value this project will bring to our community. We are eager to harness this grant to beautify Henderson’s streets with local art and celebrate its history by sharing the stories of our neighbors, honoring our past while paving a way for a brighter, more colorful future. Thank you, AARP, for believing in Henderson.”
About the Community Challenge
The Community Challenge funds innovative projects that inspire change in areas such as transportation, public spaces, housing, diversity and inclusion, civic engagement, coronavirus recovery and more.
It’s all part of AARP’s nationwide work on livable communities, which supports the efforts of neighborhoods, towns, cities and counties across the country to become great places for all residents. AARP believes that communities should provide safe, walkable streets; affordable and accessible housing and transportation options; access to needed services; and opportunities for residents to participate in community life.
To learn more about the work being funded by the AARP Community Challenge across the nation – including all 244 granted projects this year, visit aarp.org/CommunityChallenge. You can also view an interactive map of all Community Challenge projects and AARP’s livable communities work at aarp.org/livable.