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Langley, WA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Disaster Preparedness

Description: This project will conduct three train-the-trainer events and six public sessions. The focus will be on disaster preparedness, first aid, and disaster pre-planning at community centers, libraries, and senior centers.

Skokie, IL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Disaster Preparedness

Description: This project will provide disaster preparedness training to staff at agencies supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Tucson, AZ

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Disaster Preparedness

Description: The project will conduct two in-person trainings for older adults, focusing on heat resilience in Arizona's extreme temperatures. Training includes recognizing heat stress and distributing heat resilience kits.

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Indianapolis, IN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020

Project Category: Addressing community health

Description: Staff at Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana noticed that many food-insecure older adults had mobility challenges that prevented them from easily transporting their groceries. This forced many food pantry patrons to collect the amount of food they could carry rather than the amount they actually needed. To address this, the food bank purchased 54 shopping carts for agencies participating in its Senior Shopping Day program. To ensure the carts remained in the agencies' possession, Gleaners outfitted each one with a security tag. Project organizers say chronic hunger is particularly damaging for older adults, leaving them susceptible to chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, heart disease and depression. The new carts represent one way to customize hunger relief services for this population.

Indianapolis, IN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018

Project Category: Public or private transit access

Description: It rains more than one out of three days, on average, in Indianapolis. To give riders of the city's public transit system a more comfortable wait for the bus -- even in wet weather -- IndyGo made outfitted three bus stops with shelters. Additionally, they added sidewalk ramps and seating to make them ADA compliant, allowing people of all ages and abilities to use them.

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