Professional Practice
2025 AARP Community Challenge
Date: 1/22/2025 - 3/5/2025
Description:
In 2025, the AARP Community Challenge is accepting applications across three different grant opportunities.
Applications are due by March 5, 2025, 5 p.m. ET | 2 p.m. PT, and all projects must be completed by December 15, 2025.
Categories include:
- Creating vibrant public places that improve open spaces, parks and access to other amenities.
- Delivering a range of transportation and mobility options that increase connectivity, walkability, bikeability and access to public and private transit.
- Enhancing pedestrian safety by creating safer streets and sidewalks, with a focus on people age 50-plus, with funding support from Toyota Motor North America.
- Reconnecting communities divided by infrastructure, with a focus on people age 50-plus, as highlighted in the award-winning AARP Livable Communities article series Before the Highway.
- Supporting a range of housing options that increases the availability of accessible and affordable choices.
- Supporting community resilience through investments that improve disaster management, preparedness and mitigation for residents.
- Walk and Bike Audits: Implement audit assessments to enhance safety and walkability in communities, especially for people age 50-plus.
The program is open to the following types of organizations:
- 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(6). Nonprofit organizations must be recognized by the IRS to receive funds.
- Government entities
- Other types of organizations considered on a case-by-case basis