Featured Communities
- Walk/Bike Nashville: www.walkbikenashville.org
- City of Sacramento: www.sacramento.com
- Wheeling Walks: www.wheelingwalks.org
- City of Largo: www.largo.com
Additional States or Community Resources
- Florida’s Department of Transportation: www.dot.state.fl.us/safety
- Texas Trail Registry: www.tdh.state.tx.us/trails
- Walk San Diego: www.walksandiego.org
Federal Agencies
- Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: www.nhtsa.dot.gov
- Department of Health and Human
Services:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov. To link directly to information about physical activity, follow www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa, for state-level physical activity rates follow www.cdc.gov/brfss, and for funding opportunities, www.cdc.gov/funding.
- National Institutes
of Health: www.nih.gov.
For the National Institute on Aging, follow www.nia.nih.gov and for funding opportunities, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
National Non-Profit Organizations
- Partnership for Prevention’s Creating Communities for Active Aging: www.prevent.org/activeaging.htm
- AARP: www.aarp.org
- American Society on Aging’s Live Long Live Well: Blueprint for Better Health: www.asaging.org/cdc
- National Center for Biking and Walking: www.bikefed.org
- Partnership for a Walkable America’s Walkability Checklist: http://www.nsc.org/walk/wkcheck.htm.
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center: www.walkinginfo.org
- Rails-to-Trails: www.railstotrails.org
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (a potential funding source) Active for Life Program: www.activeforlife.info
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Blueprint for Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older: www.agingblueprint.org