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Sapulpa, OK
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: The project will conduct five walk audits in a commercial district to identify priority locations for sidewalk and crosswalk improvements. Older volunteers will be trained to assess pedestrian safety issues.
Providence, RI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: Age-Friendly Providence examined pedestrian safety conditions that made walking uncomfortable and risky for older adults in several dense neighborhoods. Uneven sidewalks, traffic conditions and missing comfort features limited confidence and mobility, while residents had few ways to influence street design. Through community walk audits, older adults documented safety and accessibility concerns along targeted routes. Insights from a visually impaired participant highlighted how lifted sidewalks and obstacles pose serious challenges. The findings produced location-specific documentation that is being shared with city planners. By centering lived experience, the project ensured older adult needs are shaping future safety priorities and infrastructure recommendations.
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Claremont, NH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: Walk audits will assess the safety of a planned downtown art walk route. The findings will guide remediation planning for sidewalks, paths and intersections.
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Indianapolis, IN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Transportation Other
Description: Four artist-designed traffic circles will be installed on residential streets to slow traffic and link key neighborhood destinations. Safer crossings and calmer streets will help older residents walk between housing, parks and community spaces.
Newport, RI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017
Project Category: Addressing community health
Description: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Newport wanted to encourage community members to eat locally grown fresh produce. In partnership with the Jamestown Community Garden, the Center wrote and published the first two chapters of a community cookbook. They then distributed copies of the book through the local food pantry. The first chapter offers tips on cooking with fall produce -- such as zucchini and squash -- and the second focuses on cooking for one. In addition, the center hosted a food expo, which gave residents access to info about local food resources. The community center intends to host similar events in the future.
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