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Cairo, IL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Bike Audits
Description: A series of walk audits will identify viable locations to install benches. The seating will offer residents a place to meet up or wait for rides during community activities.
Alamosa, CO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Bike Audits
Description: This project will host community bike audits to develop strategies to encourage safe bicycle use. The grantee will partner with a local older residents' group to identify destinations for the audits.
San Diego, CA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Bike Audits
Description: This project will invite older volunteers to participate in bike audits along a multi-use path to identify possible safety improvements for the route. Participants, residents and city officials will then meet to discuss how the audit's findings.
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Greensboro, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: Creativity as a Catalyst for Inclusion, a project of the Creative Aging Network, worked to create a community garden and outdoor classroom for community events. Assembling a team of volunteers and community activists, they cleaned up the grounds, built raised garden beds, created walking paths and planted native vegetation. A local artisan created custom benches for the garden, created from the wood of a fallen tree on the property. To bring people into the space, local artists led a series of workshops onsite. Project organizers say activities programmed for the garden are meant to be inclusive and appeal to people of all ages and abilities.
Forsyth County, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Supporting family caregivers
Description: The project will train 100 volunteer Aging Services Ambassadors to provide information about local services for older adults.
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