Tony Hawk Foundation

www.tonyhawkfoundation.org

The primary mission of the Tony Hawk Foundation is to promote high-quality, public skateparks in low-income areas throughout the United States.

While not every area can afford to build big, expensive skateparks, the foundation feels strongly that public skateparks should be designed and constructed by experienced contractors.

THF also believes that local officials should treat public skateparks the same way they treat public basketball courts or tennis courts, meaning that anyone may show up and use them anytime, unsupervised. The Tony Hawk Foundation is the only national grant-giving organization focused solely on the development and financing of free, quality public skateparks. The foundation primarily considers skatepark projects that:

1. are designed and built by qualified and experienced skatepark contractors.
2. include local skaters in the design process.
3. are in low-income areas, and/or areas with a high population of “at-risk” youth.
4. can demonstrate a strong grassroots commitment to the project, particularly in the form of fund-raising by local skateboarders and other community groups.
5. have a creative mix of street obstacles (rails, funboxes, launch ramps, etc.) and
   transition/vert terrain (quarterpipes, bowls, snake runs, halfpipes, etc.).
6. don’t require skaters or their parents to sign waivers.
7. encourage skaters to look after their own safety and the safety of others without restricting their access to the park or over-regulating their use of it.
8. are open during daylight hours, 365 days a year
9. don’t charge an entrance fee.
10. are in areas that currently have no skateboarding facilities.