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Chiloquin, OR

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023

Project Category: Park enhancements

Description: The project will transform a gravel lot into a park with accessible features, including non-slip concrete surfaces and ADA-compliant seating areas, to allow older adults to relax and socialize.

Royal Oak, MI

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024

Project Category: Park enhancements

Description: The city will add accessible seating and picnic tables to the local senior center and nearby park. The benches and tables will replace dilapidated amenities that are not ADA-compliant.

Willsboro, NY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Park enhancements

Description: This project will enhance Florence Hathaway Park with shuffleboard courts, an ADA pavilion, and an all-season bathroom. The park will serve residents age 50-plus and promote multi-generational outdoor recreation.

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New Orleans, LA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Bikeability

Description: To improve bikeability in New Orleans' Algiers neighborhood, this project added bike racks, a bicycle repair station and decorative lighting along a three-block section of Kabel Drive, the area's major commercial corridor.

New Orleans, LA

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Lifelong housing and accessibility

Description: Part of a larger effort to construct four affordable, ADA-accessible townhouses, this project installed a wheelchair lift in one home.

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