Community Partners and Fundraising
Parisite is built by the community! It’s built by skaters, architects, engineers, civil servants, PR firms and strategic partners donating time and resources. Partnerships include the Tulane School of Architecture’s Albert and Tina Small Center, New Orleans Recreation Department, and Capital Projects Administration. Between monetary contributions and donations of goods and services our development budget is roughly $450,000. Over $100,000 of this coming from 2 kickstarters and a gofundme campaign.
Our fundraising efforts involve a considerable amount of time sensitive strategic planning in order to maximize attention and donations. We launched our first kickstarter campaign right as we were completing the second phase build, leveraging its momentum. During the kickstarter campaign we held a ribbon cutting ceremony with the current mayor, city council members, and press outlets. The production of promotional videos, merchandising, and campaign strategy all had to fall into place prior to Parisite launching the first successful campaign for a public skatepark in Kickstarter history.
