#AARP Community Challenge Grant

Deadline for 2026 AARP Community Challenge Grants is March 4

There’s less than a week left to apply for money to make your community a better place to live. The deadline to complete an application for the 2026 AARP Community Challenge Grant is Wednesday, March 4 at noon Hawaiʻi time.

AARP accepting 2026 Community Challenge grant applications

AARP Community Challenge grants fund quick-action projects that help communities become more livable by improving public places, transportation, housing, digital connections, and more.

AARP awards Community Challenge grants to 2 Maui nonprofits

Two Maui nonprofits – Grow Some Good and the Maui Academy of Performing Arts – have received $15,000 each from AARP’s Community Challenge grant program to improve Maui communities and make them more livable, especially for kūpuna.