Livability Library: Community Engagement

EVENT

• 2021 AARP Livable Communities Workshop: Engaging Older Adults

 

CREATIVE CONNECTIONS

• Using Improv Theater to Build Resilience and Improve Livability (2021)

• AARP Community Challenge Videos: Transportation, Housing and Public Places (2020)

• Take a Kid at Heart on a Bicycle Ride (2018)

• Middle Schoolers Pen an Age-Friendly Future (2018)

• Teens Triumph Over Aging (2018)

• Storm Drains that Send a Message (2017)

• In Praise of Pop-Ups and Popsicles (2017)

• An ‘Unexpected’ Way to Enliven a Downtown (2017)

• The Power of a Piece of Chalk (2017)

• How Community Leaders and Residents Can Connect (2016)

 

HOW-TO’S

• How to Create an Annual Report that People (Of All Ages) Will Actually Read (2017)

• How to Engage the Right Players (2017)

• How Block Parties Can Build Bridges (2016)

• How to Create an Aging Well Resource Center (2016)

• How to Create a Community Advocates Program (2016)

• How to Create, Maintain and Manage an Intergenerational Community Garden (2015)

• How to Get People Dancing in Public Places (2015)

 

EXPERT ENGAGEMENTS

• 5 Questions for Andy Toy (Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (2020)

• Video: ‘Rules’ of Community Engagement with 880 Cities and AARP Kansas (2018)

• Why St. Cloud’s Mayor Keeps Cooking Chili (2018)

• How to Successfully (and Respectfully) Help a Community in Crisis (2017)

• 20+ Ways Leaders Can Connect with their Communities (2017)

• Advice From the Friendly Streets Initiative (2016)

• How to Engage the Right Players featuring AARP (2014)

 

INSPIRING IDEAS

• Neighbors Provide Many Helping Hands (2019)

• Need a Trowel But Don’t Want to Buy One? (2019)

• Two Harbors, Minnesota, Takes to the Airwaves (2018)

• Lead By Example: Reverse the Trend (2018)

• A Lesson in Resilience from Puerto Rico: Know Your Neighbors (2018)

• A Lesson in Resilience from the U.S. Virgin Islands: Be Prepared (2018)

• Serious Books, Smart Talk, Strong Community (2017)

• Why Facebook Users Really Like the Bangor Police Department (2017)

 

FREE PUBLICATIONS

• Engaging the Community to Make Community (2018)

• Community Listening Session Tool Kit (2017)

 

VOLUNTEERING

• Volunteers Help Make Communities Livable (2020)

• Meet the Livable Communities Corps (2020)

• Wanted: Service-Minded Public Allies (2020)

• Experience Matters for Livability (2018)

 

ENGAGING LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY

• AARP Livable Communities On the Road! (2020)

• Building Support for Code Reform (2020)

• Connecting With Communities Near You (2020)