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Claremont, NH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: The Claremont Opera House will upgrade its obsolete assisted listening devices so that patrons with hearing challenges can fully appreciate the music, theater, movie and lecture events on stage.
Fairfield, WA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: The church will install a wheelchair lift, enabling older adults and people with disabilities to attend community meals, cooking and food preservation classes and other community events.
Stamps, AR
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: A lack of accessible restrooms made Maya Angelou Park unwelcoming to older adults, people with disabilities and families with young children. To address this, the City of Stamps made several accessibility upgrades, including installing concrete sidewalks, new doors, hardware and handrails. The park, named for the late author, poet, and activist who grew up in Stamps, is located along the banks of Lake June.
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Spooner, WI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Innovative home maintenance, repair and support services
Description: To help homeowners and renters maintain their homes, Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity created a tool lending library. Volunteers constructed shelving to display a variety of hand and power tools, which library patrons can check out and take home. To increase residents' DIY know-how, Habitat also hosted a series of skills labs for residents. In the future, the nonprofit hopes to create a mobile version of the lending library to use throughout the community.
Altoona, WI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Housing Choice Design Competitions
Description: The City will hold an accessory dwelling unit design competition to promote their use as a housing solution. The competition will include an open house and presentations of design concepts to help educate builders and the broader community about ADUs.
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