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Juneau, AK
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: This initiative will create an accessible concrete path, allowing visitors with mobility challenges to use a bench with optimal views of the arboretum's gardens and canal. This will allow Juneau's senior living facilities to add the arboretum to their outings for provide residents.
Maricopa County, AZ
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: This initiative will upgrade six recording studios and one computer, which reading volunteers use to record information for people who cannot read print material due to a disability.
Kansas City, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: The county will install benches at several locations across Kansas City, Kansas, including at bus stops, parks and social service facilities.
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Grand Rapids, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will create an accessible community greenhouse, designed by graduate architecture students in collaboration with low-income older adults, to extend the growing season at a community garden.
Grand Rapids, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: This project will enlist volunteers of all ages to repaint faded sidewalk art, improving wayfinding and walkability. The playful design will visually connect the sidewalks to a nearby pedestrian plaza and green spaces.
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