List of Potential Stakeholders

Member communities in the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities need community support and participation to achieve its age-friendly goals. It's especially useful to engage the following individuals and organizations:

• Elected officials
  
  
• Key agency staff, such as the town or urban planner, the public works administrator, the bike/pedestrian coordinator, assorted transportation representatives
  
  
• Metropolitan planning organization (MPO) representatives
  
  
• Emergency first responders
  
  
• Main Street organizations, chambers of commerce, downtown development groups
  
  
• Local voluntary non-profit service organizations such as the Rotary Club, Junior League, etc.
  
  
• The area’s tourism bureau, local heritage society or museums
  
  
• Members of the healthcare and fitness community, such as hospitals, YMCAs, disease groups (ALS, heart, lung, diabetes, etc.)
  
  
• Existing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are engaged in the issue, such as bicycle and pedestrian groups
  
  
• Major employers in the community
  
  
• Representatives of community foundations
  
  
• Neighborhood associations
  
  
• School administrators, staff and board members
  
  
• Library staff and board members
  
  
• Senior centers
  
  
• Area agencies on aging
  
  
• Colleges and universities if they are in the community. (Pursue the involvement of subject experts and as well as the school’s community relations person.)
  
  
• Local smart growth and environmental groups

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_{Page published November 2019}