Community

Housing costs across the tri-state areas are skyrocketing. AARP is working to help ease the burden on those affected.

Ajay Brown, a fifth grader at Crabbe Elementary in Ashland, earned top honors in this year’s statewide essay contest celebrating grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. The contest is sponsored by AARP Kentucky and the Kentucky Retired Teachers Association.

Fire season is upon us, and AARP is working to help Arizona residents prepare.

Fire season is upon us, and AARP is working to help Oregon residents prepare.

No matter the forecast, making a disaster plan is essential during Hurricane season. AARP has resources.

In October, Maryland will mark its eighth annual Walktober, a monthlong series of activities and online “walkinars” to promote walking and to highlight pedestrian safety.

AARP Maryland is awarding five Baltimore City non-profits a combined $85,650 in funding as winners of AARP 2022 Community Challenge Grants. Now in its sixth year, the program supports quick-action projects that spark change and improve communities in key livability areas of public spaces, transportation, housing, civic engagement, coronavirus recovery, diversity and inclusion, plus other innovative projects.

Quick-action projects are helping make communities more livable for people of all ages in Kentucky.

Funding awarded for quick action projects in Brooke, Pocahontas and Taylor counties

Today, AARP Connecticut announced three organizations throughout the state will receive 2022 Community Challenge grants – part of the largest group of grantees to date with $3.4 million awarded among 260 organizations nationwide. Grantees will implement quick-action projects that help communities become more livable in the long-term by improving public places; transportation; housing; diversity, equity and inclusion; digital access; and civic engagement, with an emphasis on the needs of adults age 50 and over.