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Richford, VT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project will support efforts to create a welcome center at a downtown outdoor space. The new space will feature seating, raised garden beds and a community food pantry, which will offer residents free produce grown onsite.
Chillicothe, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project will turn a vacant and blighted property into the Sixth Ward's first-ever park, providing access to outdoor space for all generations.
Wilmington, DE
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project added amenities including benches, shade trees and interpretive panels to a new but underused wetland park. Delaware Nature Society hired guides to lead nature walks and help visitors monitor water quality.
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Lake Placid, NY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Inclusive civic engagement efforts
Description: This project created a website for an ongoing series of local stories about social justice and activism. Additionally, John Brown Lives! created a story booth, which it installed at the John Brown Farm Historic Site. The booth allows visitors to record their stories, which the nonprofit can then share with the community.
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