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Juneau, AK
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: This initiative will create an accessible concrete path, allowing visitors with mobility challenges to use a bench with optimal views of the arboretum's gardens and canal. This will allow Juneau's senior living facilities to add the arboretum to their outings for provide residents.
Claremont, NH
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: This project will add new accessible seating areas to the Opera House to make arts and culture programming inclusive for people of all ages and abilities. Existing accessible seating is located at the rear of the theater, resulting in poor sight lines.
Emmett, ID
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Accessibility of amenities
Description: This project installed a digital locker system outside the library so patrons can pick up and drop off materials when the building is closed.
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Kansas City, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: Kansas City's Rosedale neighborhood has lacked a community center for some time, so the Rosedale Development Association renovated and reopened a community meeting space. They added flooring, a barrier-free threshold to provide easy access for people with mobility limitations and a wall anchor system for displaying art and historical artifacts The space now hosts community events, including coffee and conversation meet-ups, adult education classes, yoga sessions and youth activities.
Kansas City, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Community Gardens
Description: This project will revitalize an underused community garden to provide organic, free produce and a space for educational programming. The neighborhood association will install irrigation, build sheds, spray fruit trees, rehab raised beds and compost garden waste.
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