The Agni Purāṇa and Matsya Purāṇa prescribe that the community should take active roles in maintaining temples and ensuring that the rituals never stop.
Agni Purāṇa (Chapter 106) says:
“Nityam arcana-sambhāraṁ saṅghaṭya bhakti-pūrvakam”
(Daily offerings and worship materials should be regularly provided through collective effort with devotion.)
Our policy is “madhukari” or the profession of the bumblebee. The bumblebee does not eat all the honey in one flower. It goes from flower to flower and takes little. The purpose is that saintly persons, Vaisnavas, if they take something from many men, everyone is benefited. We should not follow the policy that one man gives us everything and we become idle. For maintenance we should collect from many persons as monthly subscription.
~ Srila Prabhupad
If a householder cannot maintain such selfless worship, he should donate materials to a person who is executing such worship, and in this way the householder will gain half the results of that worship.
~ Srila Prabhupad