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Charleston, MO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: This project will enhance pedestrian safety along Main Street by adding colorful, reflective crosswalks and flashing LED signs.
Philadelphia, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: This project will improve pedestrian safety by implementing daylighting at three high-use intersections to enhance visibility and reduce crossing distances, benefiting older adults.
Leland, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Pedestrian Safety
Description: This project will provide for the installation for eight audible pedestrian signals at a key intersection to enhance safety and mobility for pedestrians, especially those age 50-plus and individuals with disabilities.
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Flint, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: To make the Footbridge Park Plaza safer and more inviting, the Carriage Town Neighborhood Association added benches, trash receptacles and a dog clean-up station to the space. They also upgraded lighting, allowing visitors to more safely use the plaza at night. Many Carriage Town residents use the footbridge to walk to and from Flint's downtown. After the improvements, project organizers polled locals and found 80 percent said they were more likely to use the plaza. Neighbors have since begun work on a second plaza nearby.
Flint, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The project recruited volunteers and installed raised beds at community gardens located at food banks and centers for older adults.
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