Local community citizens and The Friends of Montrose and Dumbarton Oaks Parks announced the formation of a new entity to be called the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy. Its purpose is to ally the various interested parties in Dumbarton Oaks Park into an organization which can rally public support for the restoration of the historic, urban park  located in the heart of the District of Columbia in old Georgetown, just off R Street behind the Dumbarton Oaks Estate.

The Park, originally part of the Dumbarton Oaks Estate was deeded to the National Park Service in 1940 as part of a transaction which included the transfer of the Estate to Harvard University.

The Conservancy will be chaired by Scott Bush and includes founding members Jane MacLeish, Bill Cochran, Edie Schaefer, Jane Juett, Brian Stephenson, Jim Ingram, Jerry Barnes.