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Providence, RI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Engaging people in transportation options/safety
Description: Easy‑to‑read transit guides for older adults will be updated and printed in English and Spanish. The guides will explain how to ride buses, use fare cards and access reduced fares, helping people travel with confidence and remain independent.
Saint Paul, MN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Engaging people in transportation options/safety
Description: Along Arcade Street, the council will add standing planters, benches and bike racks to improve comfort, mobility and access to shops, health care and transit.
Chicago, IL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Engaging people in transportation options/safety
Description: The program will offer guided transit training and group rides to help older adults learn bus and train routes. Participants will gain confidence using public transportation to reach health care, stores and community destinations.
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Columbia, MD
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: Culturally appropriate disaster preparedness workshops will be delivered to Asian American seniors. Participants will build emergency skills while strengthening community connections.
Howard County, MD
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Addressing community health
Description: Many Howard County residents experience food insecurity. To provide non-perishable groceries to families in need, the Indian Cultural Association of Howard County set up five Little Free Pantries in the towns of Columbia, Ellicott City and Woodbine. Volunteers stock the pantries twice a week, and each operates on a give-and-take basis. In the first year after their installation, the pantries supplied more than 3,000 pounds of food to residents.
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