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June 23, 2025
Love Living at Home in Ithaca, NY has been selected as a 2025 AARP Community Challenge Grantee!
Love Living at Home is thrilled to announce we have been selected to receive a 2025 AARP Community Challenge grant. We are one of only 383 grantees selected (out of 3,450+ applications!) from across all 50 states, Washington D.C, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. With this quick-action grant we will help provide six emergency preparedness training sessions to Tompkins County residents. “We are incredibly proud that AARP selected Love Living at Home for this investment to make Tompkins County a safer place for residents of all ages,” stated Thena Lindhorst, Executive Director of Love Living at Home. “AARP is a nationwide leader in making communities more livable and we are honored that they see the tangible value this project will bring to our area.”
Using a grant award of $2,500, Love Living at Home will work in partnership with the Tompkins County Office for the Aging and the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, to provide six emergency preparedness trainings by the end of 2025.These trainings will be free and open to the public, and attendees will get a backpack of supplies (one per family). Registration is required.
Training Dates and Locations Include:
July 22 - Museum of the Earth – 6:00 PM
Register HERE
August 11 - North Lansing Fire Station – 6:00 PM
September 13 - Airport Day & Preparedness Expo – 10:00 AM
November 13 - Lifelong – 4:00 PM (TENTATIVE)
Plus, two virtual trainings with dates to be announced.
All trainings will be listed (in red) on the Event Calendar at www.lovelivingathome.org
To get e-mail notice, sign up for the Love Living at Home e-mail list HERE.
About Love Living at Home
Recently named the “Tompkins Chamber not-for-profit of the year”, Love Living at Home (LLH) is a member-driven organization that enables older adults to live vibrantly while aging in place. Members, volunteers, and staff work together to provide engaging educational and social programs and responsive support services to promote a strong Caring-Connected-Community.
LLH offers volunteer services such as friendly visits, light home maintenance, transportation, and more, as well as over five hundred events and programs per year. For more information or to do a free three-month trial membership contact office@lovelivingathome.org or call 607-319-0162. More information is available at www.lovelivingathome.org
About the AARP Community Challenge
The AARP Community Challenge grant program supports projects in areas such as public places, housing, transportation, digital connectivity, community resilience, and more. In 2025, Toyota Motor North America is providing funding for pedestrian safety projects that aim to improve streets and sidewalks nationwide. Microsoft is also contributing funding for digital connections projects aimed at expanding high-speed internet (broadband) access and adoption. This is all part of AARP’s nationwide work on livable communities, which supports the efforts of neighborhoods, towns, cities, and counties across the country to become great places for all. AARP believes that communities should provide safe, walkable streets; affordable and accessible housing and transportation options; access to needed services; and opportunities for residents of all ages to participate in community life. To learn more about the projects being funded by the AARP Community Challenge across the nation, including all 383 granted projects this year, visit AARP.org/CommunityChallenge. You can also view an interactive map of current and past AARP Community Challenge projects and AARP’s Livable Communities work at AARP.org/Livable.
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