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Melba, ID
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project will construct a 15-foot by 15-foot octagonal gazebo in Centennial Park. The ADA-accessible gazebo, with two benches and ADA parking spaces, will provide a meeting place for community events and gatherings.
Mount Airy, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: Mount Airy Parks and Recreation installed decorative benches and bike racks, planted trees and improved signage along the Granite City Greenway to make the area more accessible and user-friendly for people of all ages. Already the most-used outdoor recreation facility in town, the visits to the Greenway increased more than 30 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic. Project organizers report that visitors use the benches and bike racks on a daily basis. They say exposure for this project helped secure local funding and made the greenway more visible tourists. Work is now underway to expand the Greenway by 1.3 miles.
Grafton, ND
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project will install interactive, outdoor musical instruments at a new park. The Harmony Park will benefit residents of a nearby facility that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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McDonough, GA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Micromobility enhancements/management
Description: Heritage Senior Activity Center purchased ten adult tricycles (along with helmets, locks and pumps) and made them available for borrowing.
Union City, GA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Addressing community health
Description: Christian City, a 500-acre charitable campus near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, provides housing and other support for people who are in need. The organization offers affordable housing older adults, as well as assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care. To encourage older people to lead healthier, more active lives, it operates a Senior Wellness program. The initiative also helps stave off social isolation, which cant contribute to physical and mental decline. This project added mile marker posts, a message board, side markers and signs identifying walking paths on the campus. In addition, Christian City provided residents with walkers with built-in pedometers. Following these improvements, the organization reported a 20 percent increase in participation in its walking program. Today, Christian city offers an array of other senior fitness activities, including Tai Chi and chair aerobics.
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