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