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Numerous Catholic Charities receive support from the Pulte Family Foundation. Click here to learn more about the Foundation’s recent grant to Livingston County Catholic Charities.

The Pulte Family Foundation has committed $200,000 to support the PulteGroup Built to Honor program. Click here to learn more.

The Pulte Family is a large family blessed with many philanthropic members who go about giving in their own unique ways.

To help cut down on confusion and protect against those with ill intent please note the following:

The Pulte Family Foundation was founded by Pulte Homes founder, William (Bill) J. Pulte. William J. Pulte passed away in 2018. The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation aka Pulte Family Foundation is completely and wholly separate from the Twitter Philanthropist, Bill Pulte. Bill Pulte is one of William J. Pulte’s 27 grandchildren.

The Pulte Family Foundation does not give grants directly to individuals but instead partners with nonprofit organizations that are in the trenches doing the work meeting the needs of the most marginalized members of our human family. So while the Pulte Family Foundation cannot render aid on an individual basis, we can direct individuals to our partners and affiliates who can. If you are an individual who needs help please click here for a list of organizations that could possibly help you.

Many Pulte Family Foundation grantees run social- and micro-enterprises that help advance their life-changing work. Our grants manger, James, had the brilliant idea of putting all these enterprises in one easily accessible spot. We hope you enjoy the first annual Pulte Family Foundation Gift Guide as much as we enjoyed creating it. Click here to access the guide.

MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN TO BUILD AN INPATIENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH UNIT AND PARTIAL HOSPITALIZATION PROGRAM IN CHEBOYGAN

McLaren Northern Michigan is addressing the need for behavioral health services in our region by developing the Justin A. Borra Behavioral Health Center. Thanks to funding from the State of Michigan and generous donors, plans are moving forward to renovate the McLaren Northern Michigan Cheboygan Campus to house a new 16-bed adult inpatient behavioral health unit and partial hospitalization program. These new behavioral health services will offer a continuum of care to help address the local and regional behavioral health crisis.

In 2020, McLaren Northern Michigan’s two Emergency Departments saw 892 behavioral health patients. Every day, at least two of these patients need to be transferred to an inpatient facility but must remain in the ED because an inpatient mental health placement is not available in the state. Some patients wait days or even weeks before they can be placed. The entire state of Michigan has just over 3,000 licensed psychiatric inpatient beds—with only 35 licensed adult beds in the 22 counties that McLaren Northern Michigan serves.

Nancy Pulte Rickard, president of the Pulte Family Foundation, stated: “Our family, like so many other families, has been impacted by mental illness. Our Founder William J. (Bill) Pulte would have been proud of the decision made by the Pulte Family Foundation Board to make this contribution to the Adult Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit at McLaren Northern Michigan. Our father created tremendous goodwill through the business he founded, Pulte Homes, which grew into a Fortune 500 company. The Foundation is committed to giving back nationwide to states and communities that have supported Pulte Homes over the last sixty-plus years. We hope that through the Pulte name, the Foundation can be a catalyst to others who want to help break the stigma of mental illness by shining a light on the topic. We see this contribution as an important means of continuing Bill’s legacy, as well as of honoring all who are suffering, or have suffered, from mental illness.”

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Former foster youth from across Florida stepped into Selfless Love Foundation’s Dream Tank for the chance of a lifetime. The annual competition, which invites contestants to share their aspirations with a panel of judges, took place on Friday, May 13 at The Breakers.

Actress and comedian Melissa Peterman hosted the event along with former foster youth Kayleigh Register. Each of the five finalists presented their dreams, which included creating supportive housing, mentorship programs, and support services for fellow youth who have aged out of foster care. Kaitlynn Hanson won the competition. The 19-year-old plans to open a coffee shop that employs people from under-represented groups, giving them a place to earn, learn, and have a sense of community.

“We know that these youth are going to succeed in life, because out of all the kids who applied, these five made it to this competition,” said John Paul DeJoria, Dream Tank judge and co-founder of Paul Mitchell. “They are willing to set goals and do what it takes to achieve them, no matter the obstacles.”

“These young people have spent months polishing their public speaking and leadership skills, connecting with people in their field of interest, and sharing their experiences in the foster care system. The competition is one night, but those skills will serve them for a lifetime,” said Dr. Elizabeth Wynter, Selfless Love Foundation’s executive director.

The judges were so impressed with the contestant’s desire to help others, they decided each youth should receive $5,000. Special guests at the event included some of the more than 600 forever families Selfless Love Foundation has helped to bring together through our partnership with Adoption-Share and their Family-Match technology.