City of Rockford Print

star-24px 2022 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Housing
Repairs will be done to ramps, stairs, railings and porches and connections to needed resources made at homes in six areas with high ratios of residents age 65-plus. Other work, such as pot-hole repair, street-sign replacement and street sweeping will be done where needed.

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Launched in 2017, the annual AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to local governments and nonprofits in order to fund quick-action, ready-to-implement projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages.

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