Park conservancy

[1] These organizations raise money through a variety of means to care for urban parks, and while there is not a single model for how a park conservancy can or should be developed, they are created to meet the needs of local communities based on their resources and political situations.

[5] This arose in part due to a lack of public funding allocation for parks, along with structure that allowed the members of the community to directly support their own parks.

[6] One particular aspect of them involves their management, which is independent of local municipal elections.

Some claim that their popularity encourages government to step back from their responsibilities to fund public spaces, and the more they give away their authority the less public oversight exists.

Along these lines, funding decisions increasingly depend upon fund-raising, leading to potential conflicts with wealthy donors influencing decisions that affect the rights of those who are often poorest and in most need of the parks themselves.