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Wrightsville, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: To make streets safer and more accessible for pedestrians, the city will hold walk audits to identify improvements to sidewalks and crosswalks.
Memphis, TN
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: The Works Inc. set out to improve walking conditions in South Memphis, where unclear construction messaging and unsafe crossings made it difficult for residents, including older adults, to navigate routes to Renaissance Pocket Park. The group led a walk audit and produced a findings report, partnering with Innovate Memphis to shape future audits and strengthen communication with city engineers. During the audit, participants learned how new bump outs, upgraded lights and multisensory pedestrian signals would support safer walking, easing concerns about construction. The project strengthened ties with Innovate Memphis and opened direct communication with City of Memphis Engineering, prompting plans for additional audits in South and North Memphis. A participant story about a confusing intersection highlighted how better information helped residents understand the long-term safety benefits of the upgrades.
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Detroit, MI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: A few walk audits will be conducted with community partner organizations. Meetings will review findings and explore solutions to pedestrian issues.
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Denver, CO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Disaster Preparedness
Description: Many older adults lacked basic disaster plans and were unsure how to respond during emergencies, including how to evacuate or protect important documents. The Center on Colfax addressed these gaps through three hands-on workshops that guided participants through creating written plans, assembling emergency kits and safeguarding vital records. Each attendee received a fireproof document box and a first aid kit to support immediate follow-through at home. Surveys showed strong gains in understanding and readiness, with most participants planning to act on what they learned. One participant called the sessions the best learning opportunity at The Center, while another said that the workshops provided definitive actions to take, signaling greater confidence and preparedness.
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Denver, CO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Digital navigation skills
Description: Older adults in the community faced barriers to digital access, leaving many isolated and unable to manage daily tasks or support small businesses. Centro San Juan Diego responded with classes on basic and intermediate computer skills focused on students age 50-plus. It served nearly 40 students who learned to navigate the internet and create documents, often for the first time. The program boosted confidence and inspired continued learning, with graduates volunteering to help peers and advocating for advanced topics like web design and payment processing. "It has been such a great experience... I have gained so much," said a former student turned volunteer.
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