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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.
New York, NY
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: The project will conduct five walk audits on a NYC Open Street to identify locations for road repair, sidewalk and crosswalk improvements, and better signage. Older community volunteers will participate.
High Point, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: This walk audit will identify walkability upgrades in an urban neighborhood where nearly a third of the residents have no vehicle. Improved public health is a primary goal since the neighborhood experiences the county's highest rate of chronic diseases.
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Sullivan, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Public safety interventions
Description: The grant will fund an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the town's community building, which will be accessible to anyone using the facilities for exercise, meetings or other activities.
Sullivan, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Trails
Description: Sullivan has a network of hiking trials but lacked options for people with mobility challenges. To give residents of all ages and abilities a place to walk, Age-Friendly Sullivan installed an accessible walking trail at the Sorrento-Sullivan Recreation Center. First, volunteers worked to prepare an underused area on the rec center's property, creating drainage culverts and mowing grass. Then they spread crushed gravel to create a hard, flat trail surface. Before, the recreation center offered several amenities aimed at children and youth, including a playground, basketball courts and a skate park. The trail represents an offering people of all ages -- including older adults -- can use. Since creating the trail, the age-friendly initiative has worked with partners to add benches, fitness equipment and a story walk along the route.
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