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Roanoke, VA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Addressing community health
Description: The project will create an outdoor fitness area with fitness equipment suitable for use by older adults and picnic tables.
Miami, FL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Addressing community health
Description: This project expanded Miami's Walk4Life club into the city's downtown. It installed two digital message boards to highlight members' accomplishments, offer health tips and promote wellness events.
Princeton, IL
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Addressing community health
Description: To give residents access to books, food and art, this project will create 26 little free libraries, pantries and galleries throughout town. Each site will be identified with a letter with a related theme, such as using A to represent aging.
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Akron, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Lifelong housing and accessibility
Description: The project will help support construction of a 16-unit affordable housing development in Akron. The homes will incorporate accessibility features for older adults.
Akron, OH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: Akron's North Hill neighborhood is home to many Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants and refugees displaced by famine and war. Many immigrant families rent garden plots at Akron Cooperative Farms, with multiple generations working together to grow produce. To better meet the community's needs, Asian Services in Action constructed an enclosed pavilion for the cooperative's neighborhood farmers market. Asian Services in Action partnered with TRY Ministries -- which provides jobs skills training to formerly incarcerated people -- and the City of Akron stepped in to lay a level, concrete floor for the space. Replacing tents, the pavilion offers vendors and shoppers protection from inclement weather, as well as shade on sunny days. This makes the market more accessible, giving allowing residents to purchase culturally important fresh vegetables, which are often unavailable at local grocery stores. Project organizers say the pavilion will also offer a venue for community events.
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