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Jamestown, RI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: HomeFit Modifications
Description: This project will improve home safety for people age 50 or over through home safety education sessions, home safety visits, and free easy-to-install safety items like night sensor lights and carpet tape.
Philadelphia, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: HomeFit Modifications
Description: Older adults in Philadelphia faced home safety hazards that threatened independence and increased fall risk. To address this, the program hosted three workshops led by health professionals, teaching practical strategies for aging in place. Participants received tailored products like shower chairs and collapsible tubs, installed to improve safety. Eighteen older adults now live more confidently at home, and many reported immediate habit changes. One client said that these improvements made her routine safer and more comfortable, and the project fostered increased safety and independence.
Shawnee, OK
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: HomeFit Modifications
Description: This project will provide bathroom safety products like shower chairs, bathtub rails, grab bars, non-slip mats, and adjustable shower heads to elderly or disabled residents.
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Memphis, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: This project will teach residents, especially those age 50-plus, emergency planning skills and provide disaster kits. Two workshops will cover preparedness strategies and local disaster risks.
Memphis, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Addressing community health
Description: In Memphis's Raleigh neighborhood, where grocery stores are scarce and isolation is common among older adults, For The Kingdom created the "Exodus Marketplace" to restore access to healthy food and connection. The initiative offered free dinners to 250 people weekly, hosted fitness and cooking classes, and opened a micro grocery store with fresh produce. Volunteers helped spread the word and serve meals, creating a steady rhythm of activity and care. One participant said, "Being able to come shop has provided a sense of dignity." The project turned a food desert into a place of community, health and hope for local residents.
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