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Choteau, MT

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Walk Audits

Description: This project will hold three community meetings with residents and City leaders to improve walkability. Two walk audits will be planned with older adults to connect safe sidewalks between key locations.

Athens, OH

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Walk Audits

Description: This project will feature walk audits in six communities and on two paths and one trail. Community forums will celebrate completion and evaluate results, which will be shared with government officials.

Montclair, NJ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Walk Audits

Description: This project will conduct walk audits near Judy Weston Garden and Edgemont Park Senior Center. Volunteers will survey sidewalks, intersections, and paths to identify ways to increase safe usage.

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Hamlin, WV

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Roadway/sidewalks/crosswalk improvement

Description: Although Hamlin's residents can access regional bus service, most parts of the community lack transit access and pedestrian infrastructure. To make the community less car-centric, Lincoln County Friends of the Arts installed several artistic crosswalks. They engaged residents to design murals, which volunteers painted on the pavement. The colorful crosswalks draw catch drivers' attention, making them more likely to notice people crossing the street. Organizers hope the traffic calming installations will improve safety for pedestrian and cyclists, ultimately improving mobility throughout the small town.

South Charleston, WV

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Digital Connectivity for Disasters

Description: This project will distribute solar-powered chargers and emergency preparedness packs to older adults. The organization will also offer internet skills training to help residents access disaster relief resources online.

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