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Bluefield, WV
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Lifelong housing and accessibility
Description: This project will renovate the historic Hotel Thelma into 10 affordable apartments for older adults and a restaurant. It will include solar panels, an intergenerational garden, and exhibits on Thelma Stone's legacy.
Reno, NV
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Lifelong housing and accessibility
Description: A home-sharing pilot will match older adults with spare rooms to renters seeking affordable housing. The program will support aging in place by providing additional income, shared living support and regular oversight to keep arrangements stable and safe.
Fayetteville, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Lifelong housing and accessibility
Description: Sources for Community Independent Living Services provides support and advocacy for individuals with disabilities, their families and the larger community through classes and training. The organization hosted an open house showcasing accessible home design features for aging in place. Participants were able to walk through a home with modifications. Additionally, a film crew documented the event and created two short videos featuring a multigenerational family discussing their experience remodeling their home for greater accessibility. The organization also created an informational poster to promote lifelong housing, distributed 3,000 brochures and held an educational event about lifelong housing with the Northwest Arkansas Home Builders Association.
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Ho'olehua, HI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: A fenced community garden area with raised beds and irrigation will be built for older residents. Accessible gardening will support food access, activity and shared growing spaces.
Kaunakaukai, HI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public spaces improvements to increase high-speed internet availability
Description: In Kaunakakai, where many older adults lacked internet access or confidence using technology, the foundation created an outdoor Wi-Fi hotspot and digital learning space. Volunteers and a technology educator taught kupuna how to use their phones, send photos, manage calendars and access telehealth tools. More than 40 participants attended, often staying beyond class to practice new skills. The project fostered a sense of pride and connection, with high school students helping participants learn hands-on. One instructor said, "It was a pleasure to help and give the students some hands-on experience," reflecting the shared spirit of learning the program inspired.
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