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AARP Community Challenge Impact Stories

Articles and videos about projects and programs funded by AARP quick-action grants

ARTICLES AND VIDEOS

The articles and videos listed below are about programs and projects that were funded by the annual , a "quick-action" grant program to make communities more livable for people of all ages.

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The achievements rack up as grantees implement their quick-action projects. See what's been achieved! Project Videos: Project Videos:

The List

Look up the more than 800 winning AARP Community Challenge grantees and projects by year or by state Project Videos: Project Videos: Learn more by viewing or downloading New articles and videos will be added to the following folders as they're created.

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FLORIDA Orlando: KENTUCKY Louisville: OREGON Medford:

DELAWARE New Castle County: MAINE Millinocket: NEW YORK Buffalo: NORTH CAROLINA Chatham County: SOUTH CAROLINA Myrtle Beach: TEXAS Houston:

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: + DELAWARE Wilmington: INDIANA Fort Wayne: KANSAS Wichita: MASSACHUSETTS Boston: ) MICHIGAN Detroit: MISSISSIPPI Jackson: OKLAHOMA Anadarko: PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: VERMONT Bennington: VIRGIN ISLANDS Christiansted:

ARIZONA Tempe: CALIFORNIA West Sacramento: FLORIDA Miami: GEORGIA Atlanta: HAWAII Honolulu: IOWA Avoca: KENTUCKY Lexington: Louisville: LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: MAINE Saco: MISSOURI Kansas City: NEBRASKA Omaha: NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: OHIO Findlay: PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: + () SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: TENNESSEE Memphis:

CALIFORNIA San Diego: Santa Cruz: CONNECTICUT Hartford: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, DC: GEORGIA Macon-Bibb: + HAWAII Honolulu: IDAHO Kuna: INDIANA Fort Wayne: + KANSAS Wichita: KENTUCKY Lexington: LOUISIANA New Orleans: MAINE Bowdoinham: MICHIGAN Wayne: + MISSISSIPPI Gulfport: NEW HAMPSHIRE Statewide: NEW YORK Buffalo: NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: Philadelphia: RHODE ISLAND Jamestown: SOUTH CAROLINA Camden: + TENESSEE Nashville: TEXAS Fort Worth: Fort Worth: VIRGINIA Farmville: WASHINGTON Seattle: WEST VIRGINIA Charleston/Kanawha Valley:

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PHOTO ALBUMS

The achievements rack up as grantees implement their quick-action projects.

IMPACTS AND OUTCOMES

Grantees have delivered a range of positive results and outcomes following the award of an AARP Community Challenge grant. Since the grant debuted in 2017:

New Funding is Being Leveraged br

45% of grantees have demonstrated that their AARP Community Challenge project helped them leverage additional funds and support from public, private and philanthropic partners and funders, including: Proving a concept that leads the private or public sector to invest additional funds directly into the project, or surrounding area, to expand it

Testing an idea that leads to the public sector replicating the project or investing municipal funding into replicating the project

Funding a discrete portion of an effort in which several of other funders have contributed over a period of time

Barriers Are Overcome

81% of grantees have demonstrated that their project helped them advance change and overcome policy barriers, including: Giving an organization the data, information and feedback needed to successfully advocate for a policy change within local government, including everything from a Complete Streets ordinance, to a streamlined permitting process for tactical urbanism projects

Demonstrating the validity or need for changes and improvements to a specific area of the community — such as through updated master plans or a community redirecting resources to address an existing issue

Showing the community a “first of its kind” change that helps lead to replication or additional energy

Greater Engagement is Achieved

100% of grantees have demonstrated that the grant led to greater awareness, community engagement, and new partners, including: Leading to an increased awareness of the larger effort

Increasing engagement (users, volunteers, etc.) with a larger effort and/or organization

Bringing new partners to the larger effort

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