Community A-to-Z (2024) Print

star-24px 2024 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Community Health and Economic Empowerment
└ Addressing community health
To give residents access to books, food and art, this project will create 26 little free libraries, pantries and galleries throughout town. Each site will be identified with a letter with a related theme, such as using A to represent aging.

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First Impression of South Carolina (2024)

Greenville, SC

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Addressing community health

Description: This project will construct raised garden beds and a hoop tunnel, allowing older adults to grow fresh fruits and vegetables for residents in need.

Local Office on Aging (2023)

Roanoke, VA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Addressing community health

Description: The project will create an outdoor fitness area with fitness equipment suitable for use by older adults and picnic tables.

Friends of The Underline (2022)

Miami, FL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Addressing community health

Description: This project expanded Miami's Walk4Life club into the city's downtown. It installed two digital message boards to highlight members' accomplishments, offer health tips and promote wellness events.

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Phoenix Community Development Services (2021)

Peoria, IL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Public art installations

Description: Organizers with Phoenix Community Development Services know supportive housing facilities for unhoused Peoria residents are often drab. To address this, the nonprofit -- which develops transitional apartment complexes -- created a three-story mural in an alley between an existing building and an upcoming facility. Apartment residents provided input on the mural's design and helped install the artwork, which is visible from one of downtown Peoria's major thoroughfares.

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