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Weston, WV
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: Walk audits will evaluate pedestrian safety conditions along two busy roads connecting a senior center with a commercial area. The commission will share findings at community meetings to advocate for walkability improvements.
Centennial, CO
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: Older adults and people with mobility challenges faced barriers accessing a 71-mile urban trail, making safety and usability urgent concerns. The project engaged residents in walk audits and partnered with local university students for a trail-wide accessibility review. Feedback led to a pilot "slow zone" to curb speeding cyclists and informed plans for resurfacing that will widen paths and add ADA ramps. These audits created a model for future engagement, ensuring older adults voices shape trail improvements.
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Lancaster, PA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Walk Audits
Description: Several walk audits will assess priority downtown routes with older adult and intergenerational volunteers. Community meetings will share findings that inform the development of safety education materials.
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Brillion, WI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The library will create an outdoor reading garden with seating, shade and accessible raised garden beds in a downtown green space. The garden will support reading, gardening and storytelling programs in a comfortable gathering space for all ages.
Green Bay, WI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: The Farmory is a nonprofit urban farm, where community members can learn about sustainable agriculture and aquaponics. However, many of the farm's features were inaccessibly to visitors who rely on wheelchairs or other mobility devices. To make the space more accessible, the Farmory installed a new aquaponics system, which is low to the ground. This allows visitors to see the farm's growing systems without needing to climb onto a ladder. The system consists of four growing beds, water tanks, a germinating chamber and a harvesting area. Today, produce grown with the new aquaponics system also helps combat food insecurity -- the Farmory donates about ten pounds of greens each week to the county's Aging and Disability Resource Center.
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