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Memphis, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Trails
Description: This project will improve a trail segment in Big River Park and add a gathering circle with repurposed stone block benches. All improvements will be ADA-compliant.
Corry, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Trails
Description: When the City of Corry developed its long-term strategic plan, one of its primary objectives was improving access to greenspace. Most residents live more than a ten-minute walk from local parks and trails. To better connect neighborhoods to a local greenway, Impact Corry transformed an underused, overgrown pathway into an accessible trail. Volunteers worked to install amenities along the route, including benches designed by local artists and a pollinator-friendly gardens. Project organizers also added solar-powered crossing beacons street intersections to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe.
Medicine Lodge, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Trails
Description: This project built a paved path at the Five Tribes Outdoor Museum Trail, connecting the parking area to trail features.
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New Orleans, LA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Bikeability
Description: To improve bikeability in New Orleans' Algiers neighborhood, this project added bike racks, a bicycle repair station and decorative lighting along a three-block section of Kabel Drive, the area's major commercial corridor.
New Orleans, LA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Lifelong housing and accessibility
Description: Part of a larger effort to construct four affordable, ADA-accessible townhouses, this project installed a wheelchair lift in one home.
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