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Red Lodge, MT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Public safety interventions
Description: The project responded to long-standing accessibility challenges at the Roosevelt Center, where uneven ground kept many older adults from reaching the sculpture garden. The Foundation built a 128-foot pathway designed around existing sculptures, added interpretive panels and installed a durable paving system with help from volunteers. Some residents said they appreciated the effort to create safe outdoor access in an environmentally conscious way. The new route guides visitors to ADA entrances, supports rehabilitation activities for older adults and strengthens local walkability efforts.
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Providence, RI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Public safety interventions
Description: Residents will help design and install a street mural and traffic‑calming features at a busy intersection. The project will slow traffic, improve visibility and make crossings safer for older adults and other pedestrians in the neighborhood.
Port Royal, SC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Public safety interventions
Description: An indoor pool facility will upgrade entry features, adaptive equipment and instructor-led aquatic therapy and safety classes. The changes will support safer movement, recovery and regular use of water-based activities.
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Goffstown, NH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019
Project Category: Improved wayfinding
Description: The five-and-a-half mile Goffstown Rail Trail connects the town's three commercial areas. To help trail users navigate, Friends of the Goffstown Rail Trail erected new signs with information about nearby businesses and facilities, as well as tidbits of Goffstown history. Since installation, business owners along the trail have reported more visitors in their shops. And as Goffstown plans for a future trail expansion, the signs have helped build community buy-in and attract donations to fund that project.
Manchester, NH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: Part of larger efforts to draw people to spend time in downtown Manchester, this project made placemaking improvements to Arms Park. Manchester Connects engaged a local company to design custom chairs for the space, which can gently rock. Additionally, they installed picnic tables, benches and a concrete cornhole set in the park. The park -- located on the banks of the Merrimack River -- is a historic place in the city's core. Organizers hope the new amenities help the park act as a third space -- a public place people can gather without having to spend money.
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