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Mounds, IL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: The City of Mounds made accessibility improvements to its City Park to ensure the space is welcoming to people of all ages and abilities. This included outfitting restrooms to be ADA-compliant, adding a ramp to the park's gazebo and installing benches and picnic tables with shade umbrellas.
Walcott, IA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: The city will revitalize one tennis court with new asphalt and paint and convert a second court into pickleball courts. Pickleball offers beneficial exercise for older adults, since the sport is gentle on the joints.
New Bedford, MA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: This project will install benches along a walking path in a popular park to improve accessibility for people of all ages and abilities.
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Keiser, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: The city will reimagine a local park, focusing on the older adults' needs. The project will add amenities onsite, including low-impact exercise equipment, accessible walking tracks, ample shade and comfortable seating.
Blytheville, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: This project added new curb ramps suitable for wheelchair users in the downtown area.
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