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Pottsboro, TX

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Expanding HighSpeed Internet

Description: The Pottsboro Librarys Digital Navigator Program offers personalized tech support to help older adults gain skills for telehealth, online safety, and staying connected. This initiative aims to foster greater independence and engagement in the community.

Whitesburg, KY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Expanding HighSpeed Internet

Description: This project will empower adults age 50 or over in Eastern Kentucky with training in artificial intelligence, digital tools, and internet safety.

Birmingham, AL

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Expanding HighSpeed Internet

Description: This project equips adults age 50-plus with tablets, internet access, and digital skills to support disaster preparedness workshops, enhancing their ability to access information and crisis communications.

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Philadelphia, PA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Walk Audits

Description: The project will conduct a walk audit of Girard Avenue to identify safety and accessibility barriers for residents age 50 or over. Volunteers of all ages, including older adults, will participate.

Philadelphia, PA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2019

Project Category: Roadway/sidewalks/crosswalk improvement

Description: Asociacion Puertorriquenos en Marcha completed streetscaping along an important corridor of Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia. Small-scale, low-cost -- but high-impact -- improvements began with street cleaning. Volunteers then worked to add elements to offset pedestrians from traffic and slow down passing vehicles. They installed decorative fences, signs at pedestrian crossings, flexible bollards, sidewalk art and temporary island installations. The project was part of a larger effort to revive what was once a vibrant, central commercial corridor and residents reacted positively. One said, It makes it look like people actually live here, like they do Another added, This makes it easier for children to know where they can safely cross. Organizers are seeking to make the island installations permanent. Additionally, the City committed to restriping the street and continue cleanup efforts, while community members plan to replicate beautification elements on nearby vacant lots.

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