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A dozen organizations or localities received 2025 AARP Community Challenge grants, totaling $126,300. The money is funding a variety of projects from upgrades to a Sacramento community garden, to workshops for low-to-moderate-income Los Angeles homeowners on how to develop rental units, to an initiative aimed at making San Francisco's streets and sidewalks safer and easier to navigate.

Sedgwick County and the city of Thornton are the newest Colorado members of the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities. They join 20 other Colorado counties or localities that are also members, including places like Carbondale. The city’s age-friendly efforts have included repairing sidewalks and placing benches around the city to provide rest stops for walkers.

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AARP West Virginia and a coalition of other organizations — including anti-hunger advocates, farmers and businesses — successfully advocated this year for an additional $360,000 in the state budget to help older adults facing food insecurity.

Communities in South Dakota, Wyoming and Oklahoma are making improvements — including an outdoor classroom, new technology for veterans and home modifications for Native American elders — thanks to 2025 AARP Community Challenge grants.