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Beyond building good homes, the people of Pulte Homes are the fabric of an inclusive culture that shares goodwill and good works with the communities in which we live and work.
Inclusion and Diversity
At Pulte Homes, “diversity” transcends race, gender and other outward traits to encompass diversity of backgrounds, ideas, experiences and lifestyles. Pulte offers LifeWorks! Programs including flexible work arrangements to help employees maintain a balance between work and personal time. Our National Diversity and Women’s Leadership councils work with senior management to ensure that an inclusive culture permeates our company’s strategies and goals, and to recruit, retain and reward top talent from a wide range of backgrounds.
For more information, visit Pulte’s Inclusion and Diversity site.
The Environment
Pulte Homes incorporates many energy efficient and environmentally sustainable practices into our new home communities across the country, which translates into lasting savings, a comfortable home environment, and smart use of natural resources. A sampling of Pulte’s “green” efforts includes right-sized HVAC systems which reduce energy consumption; low-flow or dual-flush toilets that can reduce a home’s water usage by thousands of gallons per year; ENERGY STAR® appliances; low-water xeriscaping; recycled building materials; weather-sensitive irrigation systems and preservation of walking trails and natural habitats.
Charitable Giving
Following the example set by our founder, Bill Pulte, our company is committed to not only building better communities, but building a better world.
Focusing on the core areas of Housing, Education, Health & Human Services and the Environment, our volunteer and charitable giving efforts span national, local and personal levels and demonstrate the family-based, people-oriented values upon which Pulte Homes is built. Our corporate Charitable Giving Committee evaluates many requests throughout the year from non-profit organizations around southeast Michigan and across the U.S.
Pulte’s division teams and employees combined to share over $3 million in 2007, aiding a wide range of local charities, non-profit organizations, youth groups, schools and municipal improvement projects. In addition to financial support, Pulte employees offer countless hours of volunteer time as the Company enables all full-time employees to use two additional paid days off per year to pursue volunteer or community service efforts.
Southeast Michigan organizations or those with a national scope are welcome to request support from Pulte Homes’ corporate Charitable Giving Committee. Requests outside of southeast Michigan can be sent directly to the appropriate local Pulte market office.
If you would like to apply for a grant, please download and submit an application as well as a brief proposal outlining the following:
- - A brief statement of the organization’s purpose, goals, and past accomplishments
- - The purpose of the project and the amount and specific use of the requested funds, including the population that will be served
- - The ability of the organization to meet the identified need, and the method of evaluating the effectiveness of the program
- - The organization’s financial statement indicating what percentage of raised funds go directly to the program or recipients
- - Evidence of your organization’s 501(c)(3) status
We seek to fund capital projects that will have a long-term impact on communities and to donate to organizations that minimize administrative and fund-raising costs. We endeavor to reach a broad spectrum of people, particularly in the markets in which we do business.
We want our contributions to have the broadest reach possible and do not contribute to individuals except for the scholarships outlined above. Grants will not be given to any organizations which discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference or other unlawful classification, or to religious, fraternal, or veterans’ organizations unless they benefit the community at large. Appeals for unrestricted funds or for organizations that distribute funds to other charities will not be considered.
A sampling of some major donations by Pulte Homes in recent years:
 | $1.5 million donation established Pulte Homes Endowed Professorship in the Department of Building Construction at Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies.
| |  | $1.2 million donation from Pulte’s charitable giving budget, executive team and countless Pulte employees in support of Red Cross relief efforts following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
| |  | $1 million donation to Mercy Housing, a national affordable housing organization that serves nearly 55,000 people each day and has developed more than 17,300 units of housing across the U.S. Seventy percent of Mercy Housing’s residents are families, 20% are seniors and 10% are people with special needs (formerly homeless, people with HIV/AIDS). | |  | $1 million donation to fund the Chemotherapy Infusion Clinic at the new Cancer Center at St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital in Howell, Mich. | | 
 | $500,000 donation to UNICEF and The Salvation Army to aid victims of the Dec. 26, 2004 south Asia tsunami. | |  | $300,000 donation to the Construction Management program at Louisiana State University for an endowed professorship matched by $200,000 in state funds. | |  | $250,000 donation to Michigan State University to attract and retain under-represented groups in the Building and Construction Management program. | |  | $200,000 donation to the Troy, Mich. chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for a new gym as part of a new facility to provide children with safe and affordable after-school programs. | |  | $120,000 donation to Goodwill Industries of Detroit for their “Flip the Script” program that helps at-risk young men and trains them in the construction trade. | |  | $100,000 donation to Angel’s Place in Southfield, Mich., to provide capital improvements for 13 homes that provides housing for adults with developmental disabilities. | |
| | Downloads| Pulte people are involved with charitable and volunteer efforts across America. Click here for a sampling of some of our division and employee efforts.
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