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🌟Applications are open for the next round of the #CommunityChangeGrant program!🌟
This program awards 6 grantees $2,000 for projects related to creating healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
This program awards 6 grantees $2,000 for projects related to creating healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
🌟🎉 Thank you to everyone who applied for the #CommunityChangeGrant program!
We are reviewing submissions and will be in touch with recipients soon! 🌟🎉
We are reviewing submissions and will be in touch with recipients soon! 🌟🎉
February 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
🌟🎉 Thank you to everyone who applied for the #CommunityChangeGrant program!
We are reviewing submissions and will be in touch with recipients soon! 🌟🎉
We are reviewing submissions and will be in touch with recipients soon! 🌟🎉
IntelligentSpeedAssistance is gaining attention as a powerful tool to prevent speed-related crashes – but how can public agencies + advocates move from concept to actual implementation and real road safety results?
Join Vision Zero's webinar on Feb. 19 to learn! ➡️ Register: buff.ly/LP02iEu
Join Vision Zero's webinar on Feb. 19 to learn! ➡️ Register: buff.ly/LP02iEu
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
IntelligentSpeedAssistance is gaining attention as a powerful tool to prevent speed-related crashes – but how can public agencies + advocates move from concept to actual implementation and real road safety results?
Join Vision Zero's webinar on Feb. 19 to learn! ➡️ Register: buff.ly/LP02iEu
Join Vision Zero's webinar on Feb. 19 to learn! ➡️ Register: buff.ly/LP02iEu
‼️ LAST CHANCE to apply for the #CommunityChangeGrant program!
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply TODAY by 10pmET/7pmPT: buff.ly/osYthPV
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply TODAY by 10pmET/7pmPT: buff.ly/osYthPV
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
‼️ LAST CHANCE to apply for the #CommunityChangeGrant program!
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply TODAY by 10pmET/7pmPT: buff.ly/osYthPV
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply TODAY by 10pmET/7pmPT: buff.ly/osYthPV
The Claiborne Expressway costs $30 million in lost property tax revenue per year. It is not the only harm, but it highlights one way highways hurt urban prosperity. urban3.substack.com/p/i10-lost-v...
Modeling Lost Property Value Adjacent to the I-10 Elevated Urban Freeway in New Orleans
Urban3's analysis reveals that I-10 along Claiborne Ave through the neighborhoods of Treme and Seventh Ward in New Orleans impacts redlined communities and causes myriad negative impacts.
urban3.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
The Claiborne Expressway costs $30 million in lost property tax revenue per year. It is not the only harm, but it highlights one way highways hurt urban prosperity. urban3.substack.com/p/i10-lost-v...
🌟 Our friends at @AARPLivable are accepting applications for their 2026
#AARPCommunityChallenge grant program through March 4. 🗓️
The program aims to spark change & improve quality of life for all with quick-action projects.
Learn more and apply: buff.ly/lhEiBYn
#AARPCommunityChallenge grant program through March 4. 🗓️
The program aims to spark change & improve quality of life for all with quick-action projects.
Learn more and apply: buff.ly/lhEiBYn
AARP Community Challenge
AARP Community Challenge grants help communities become more livable for people of all ages
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February 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
🌟 Our friends at @AARPLivable are accepting applications for their 2026
#AARPCommunityChallenge grant program through March 4. 🗓️
The program aims to spark change & improve quality of life for all with quick-action projects.
Learn more and apply: buff.ly/lhEiBYn
#AARPCommunityChallenge grant program through March 4. 🗓️
The program aims to spark change & improve quality of life for all with quick-action projects.
Learn more and apply: buff.ly/lhEiBYn
🌟👟Apply now for the 2026 #WalkingCollege!
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
February 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
🌟👟Apply now for the 2026 #WalkingCollege!
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
Funded in part by a #CommunityChangeGrant, studioMAIN’s Cumberland Ave pop-up project reimagined a street into a vibrant pedestrian space!
With local partners + creative activation, this temporary redesign sparked a vision for lasting change in downtown Little Rock. #ActivePeople
➡️ buff.ly/slRdA8W
With local partners + creative activation, this temporary redesign sparked a vision for lasting change in downtown Little Rock. #ActivePeople
➡️ buff.ly/slRdA8W
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Funded in part by a #CommunityChangeGrant, studioMAIN’s Cumberland Ave pop-up project reimagined a street into a vibrant pedestrian space!
With local partners + creative activation, this temporary redesign sparked a vision for lasting change in downtown Little Rock. #ActivePeople
➡️ buff.ly/slRdA8W
With local partners + creative activation, this temporary redesign sparked a vision for lasting change in downtown Little Rock. #ActivePeople
➡️ buff.ly/slRdA8W
Applications are open for the next round of the #CommunityChangeGrant
program!
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to
healthy, active + engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply through Feb. 10: buff.ly/sgIV1Xd
program!
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to
healthy, active + engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply through Feb. 10: buff.ly/sgIV1Xd
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Applications are open for the next round of the #CommunityChangeGrant
program!
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to
healthy, active + engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply through Feb. 10: buff.ly/sgIV1Xd
program!
This is your community’s chance to receive a $2,000 grant for projects related to
healthy, active + engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
Apply through Feb. 10: buff.ly/sgIV1Xd
🌟👟Apply now for the 2026 #WalkingCollege!
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
January 30, 2026 at 7:03 PM
🌟👟Apply now for the 2026 #WalkingCollege!
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
This online program unites community champions to enhance walkability. Fellows gain leadership skills, mentorship, and actionable plans for community change! #ActivePeople
🗓️Apply by February 16 ➡️ buff.ly/trr1aoR
🌟Applications are open for the next round of the #CommunityChangeGrant program!🌟
This program awards 6 grantees $2,000 for projects related to creating healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
This program awards 6 grantees $2,000 for projects related to creating healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
January 29, 2026 at 7:01 PM
🌟Applications are open for the next round of the #CommunityChangeGrant program!🌟
This program awards 6 grantees $2,000 for projects related to creating healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
This program awards 6 grantees $2,000 for projects related to creating healthy, active, and engaged places to live, work, and play. #ActivePeople
🌟 "We are working together with the residents to create change." 🌟
#WalkingCollege graduate Katrina Watkins is working to improve her neighborhood and engage her community in Detroit, Michigan. #ActivePeople
Read our latest blog to learn more ➡️ buff.ly/awqFo4b
#WalkingCollege graduate Katrina Watkins is working to improve her neighborhood and engage her community in Detroit, Michigan. #ActivePeople
Read our latest blog to learn more ➡️ buff.ly/awqFo4b
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
🌟 "We are working together with the residents to create change." 🌟
#WalkingCollege graduate Katrina Watkins is working to improve her neighborhood and engage her community in Detroit, Michigan. #ActivePeople
Read our latest blog to learn more ➡️ buff.ly/awqFo4b
#WalkingCollege graduate Katrina Watkins is working to improve her neighborhood and engage her community in Detroit, Michigan. #ActivePeople
Read our latest blog to learn more ➡️ buff.ly/awqFo4b
🌟👟‼️ WEBINAR TOMORROW: Join us to learn how we can make streets and communities more walkable by improving land-use policies and practices, ft. Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
🌟👟‼️ WEBINAR TOMORROW: Join us to learn how we can make streets and communities more walkable by improving land-use policies and practices, ft. Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX
🌟👟‼️ WEBINAR TOMORROW: Join us to learn how we can make streets and communities more walkable by improving land-use policies and practices, ft. Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX #ActivePeople
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX #ActivePeople
January 26, 2026 at 4:05 PM
🌟👟‼️ WEBINAR TOMORROW: Join us to learn how we can make streets and communities more walkable by improving land-use policies and practices, ft. Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX #ActivePeople
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX #ActivePeople
After the storm passes, a great time for safe streets advocates to look for the "sneckdowns" and share them with your local elected officials. What are we talking about? nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/23/s...
Send Mayor Mamdani Your Sneckdown Photos! ('Snow Problem, Streetsblog!') - Streetsblog New York City
"Do you know what a sneckdown is?" "Sneckdown?" "Sneckdown." Therein lies a great story.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 23, 2026 at 11:04 PM
After the storm passes, a great time for safe streets advocates to look for the "sneckdowns" and share them with your local elected officials. What are we talking about? nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/23/s...
Traffic crashes are a leading, and preventable, cause of death in the U.S.
There’s more we can and should be doing to address this road safety crisis. But our over-reliance on high-volume traffic enforcement has overshadowed promising solutions that could actually save lives...
There’s more we can and should be doing to address this road safety crisis. But our over-reliance on high-volume traffic enforcement has overshadowed promising solutions that could actually save lives...
January 23, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Traffic crashes are a leading, and preventable, cause of death in the U.S.
There’s more we can and should be doing to address this road safety crisis. But our over-reliance on high-volume traffic enforcement has overshadowed promising solutions that could actually save lives...
There’s more we can and should be doing to address this road safety crisis. But our over-reliance on high-volume traffic enforcement has overshadowed promising solutions that could actually save lives...
👟‼️WEBINAR: How can we improve street safe design and land-use policies and practices to bring the benefits of walkability to more people and communities?
Join us for a webinar on January 27, 2026 at 2pm ET/11am PT to find out!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/rlJES72 #ActivePeople
Join us for a webinar on January 27, 2026 at 2pm ET/11am PT to find out!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/rlJES72 #ActivePeople
January 23, 2026 at 3:04 PM
👟‼️WEBINAR: How can we improve street safe design and land-use policies and practices to bring the benefits of walkability to more people and communities?
Join us for a webinar on January 27, 2026 at 2pm ET/11am PT to find out!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/rlJES72 #ActivePeople
Join us for a webinar on January 27, 2026 at 2pm ET/11am PT to find out!
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/rlJES72 #ActivePeople
📢 Get ready… Applications for the next round of the #CommunityChangeGrant program open on January 26!
Make sure you’re subscribed to America Walks to learn more and apply! ➡️ buff.ly/z32yOkx #ActivePeople
Make sure you’re subscribed to America Walks to learn more and apply! ➡️ buff.ly/z32yOkx #ActivePeople
January 22, 2026 at 9:20 PM
📢 Get ready… Applications for the next round of the #CommunityChangeGrant program open on January 26!
Make sure you’re subscribed to America Walks to learn more and apply! ➡️ buff.ly/z32yOkx #ActivePeople
Make sure you’re subscribed to America Walks to learn more and apply! ➡️ buff.ly/z32yOkx #ActivePeople
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Really enjoyed being part of the 2025 cohort! Got to meet with advocates from all over and learn from them best practices for advocacy, as well as what makes their places special.
👟Applications are open for the 2026 #WalkingCollege!
In its 11th year, this fellowship empowers grassroots leaders to build safer, healthier, more walkable communities through people-first design & policy. #ActivePeople
🗓 Apply by Feb 16
🏘️ Rural leaders encouraged
💻 Virtual
Apply: buff.ly/yBpDknf
In its 11th year, this fellowship empowers grassroots leaders to build safer, healthier, more walkable communities through people-first design & policy. #ActivePeople
🗓 Apply by Feb 16
🏘️ Rural leaders encouraged
💻 Virtual
Apply: buff.ly/yBpDknf
January 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Really enjoyed being part of the 2025 cohort! Got to meet with advocates from all over and learn from them best practices for advocacy, as well as what makes their places special.
👟Applications are open for the 2026 #WalkingCollege!
In its 11th year, this fellowship empowers grassroots leaders to build safer, healthier, more walkable communities through people-first design & policy. #ActivePeople
🗓 Apply by Feb 16
🏘️ Rural leaders encouraged
💻 Virtual
Apply: buff.ly/yBpDknf
In its 11th year, this fellowship empowers grassroots leaders to build safer, healthier, more walkable communities through people-first design & policy. #ActivePeople
🗓 Apply by Feb 16
🏘️ Rural leaders encouraged
💻 Virtual
Apply: buff.ly/yBpDknf
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
👟Applications are open for the 2026 #WalkingCollege!
In its 11th year, this fellowship empowers grassroots leaders to build safer, healthier, more walkable communities through people-first design & policy. #ActivePeople
🗓 Apply by Feb 16
🏘️ Rural leaders encouraged
💻 Virtual
Apply: buff.ly/yBpDknf
In its 11th year, this fellowship empowers grassroots leaders to build safer, healthier, more walkable communities through people-first design & policy. #ActivePeople
🗓 Apply by Feb 16
🏘️ Rural leaders encouraged
💻 Virtual
Apply: buff.ly/yBpDknf
Leadership
The second item: "We're going to be getting out the red paint on Denny Way," Wilson said. "We cannot let one of our highest ridership routes languish in traffic." Bus lane inbound.
January 15, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Leadership
Some interpret "abundance" to mean an "abundance of highways." Ben of America Walks is leading a panel at the #crossroadsconvening on "Centering Transportation Equity in the Abundance Agenda" to do better than that. FYI, "some" is the Abundance Caucus in Congress, cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...
cdn.sanity.io
January 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Some interpret "abundance" to mean an "abundance of highways." Ben of America Walks is leading a panel at the #crossroadsconvening on "Centering Transportation Equity in the Abundance Agenda" to do better than that. FYI, "some" is the Abundance Caucus in Congress, cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...
👟‼️WEBINAR: Want to know which land-use policies actually help create walkable communities?
Join Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn to learn the proven changes a community can make to create walkable places for all.
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX#Acti...
Join Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn to learn the proven changes a community can make to create walkable places for all.
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX#Acti...
January 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
👟‼️WEBINAR: Want to know which land-use policies actually help create walkable communities?
Join Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn to learn the proven changes a community can make to create walkable places for all.
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX#Acti...
Join Cary Westerbeck and Mike McGinn to learn the proven changes a community can make to create walkable places for all.
Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/kI4OplX#Acti...
Yes. Lives are more important than parked cars obscuring sight lines of those in and out of vehicles. Daylighting intersections should be a standard safety practice everywhere.
Mayor Mamdani said over the weekend that he wants the Department of Transportation to add daylighting before someone has been killed rather than wait to ban parking at intersections after a completely avoidable tragedy. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/m...
Mamdani: Daylighting Before Death! - Streetsblog New York City
The mayor wants the Department of Transportation to add daylighting before someone has been killed rather than wait to ban parking at intersections after a completely avoidable tragedy.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Yes. Lives are more important than parked cars obscuring sight lines of those in and out of vehicles. Daylighting intersections should be a standard safety practice everywhere.
‼️ Walkable, safe, and accessible communities are at stake in 2026.
🌟 America Walks trains advocates, educates the public, and builds a national movement to stand up to the highway lobbyists.
But we need your help. Donate today to help us build the #walkability movement! ➡️ buff.ly/E8gjzgW
🌟 America Walks trains advocates, educates the public, and builds a national movement to stand up to the highway lobbyists.
But we need your help. Donate today to help us build the #walkability movement! ➡️ buff.ly/E8gjzgW
December 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
‼️ Walkable, safe, and accessible communities are at stake in 2026.
🌟 America Walks trains advocates, educates the public, and builds a national movement to stand up to the highway lobbyists.
But we need your help. Donate today to help us build the #walkability movement! ➡️ buff.ly/E8gjzgW
🌟 America Walks trains advocates, educates the public, and builds a national movement to stand up to the highway lobbyists.
But we need your help. Donate today to help us build the #walkability movement! ➡️ buff.ly/E8gjzgW
What we do in 2026 will matter for years to come.
The walkability movement is up against a lot...
America Walks works to empower a national network to advocate for funding the safe, walkable infrastructure communities want and need.
Consider donating: buff.ly/ABbkxOf
The walkability movement is up against a lot...
America Walks works to empower a national network to advocate for funding the safe, walkable infrastructure communities want and need.
Consider donating: buff.ly/ABbkxOf
December 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What we do in 2026 will matter for years to come.
The walkability movement is up against a lot...
America Walks works to empower a national network to advocate for funding the safe, walkable infrastructure communities want and need.
Consider donating: buff.ly/ABbkxOf
The walkability movement is up against a lot...
America Walks works to empower a national network to advocate for funding the safe, walkable infrastructure communities want and need.
Consider donating: buff.ly/ABbkxOf