Bullitt Foundation
| Bullitt Foundation | |
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| Sector | Industrial"Industrial" is not in the list (Buildings, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Data, Education, Public Safety, Rural, Smart Region, Transportation, Utility, Wellbeing, ...) of allowed values for the "Has sector" property. |
| Industry | 20202020"20202020" is not in the list (Energy, Materials, Capital Goods, Commercial & Professional Services, Transportation, Automobiles & Components, Consumer Durables & Apparel, Consumer Services, Retailing, Food & Staples Retailing, ...) of allowed values for the "Has industry" property. |
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Founder(s) | Dorothy Bullitt |
| City, State | Seattle, WA |
| Country | United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key Executives | Property "Has e President and CEO ecutives" (as page type) with input value " President and CEO " contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process. Denis Hayes [[ President and CEO ]] |
| Revenue | $2,528,093€ 2,224,721.84 <br />£ 1,870,788.82 <br />CA$ 3,210,678.11 <br />CNY 16,002,828.69 <br />KRW 3,098,051.567 <br /> |
| Number of employees | 7 |
| Sponsorship Level | |
The Bullitt Foundation is a foundation (charity) established in 1952 by Dorothy S. Bullitt, a prominent Seattle businesswoman and philanthropist who founded King Broadcasting Company in Seattle. Its assets as of the end of 2010 were in excess of US$100M.
After Dorothy Bullitt died in 1989, the foundation inherited 28% of the stock from King Broadcasting Company.
In 1992, the Bullitt Foundation hired Denis Hayes, national organizer of the first Earth Day, as President. Soon thereafter, it began to broaden the Board beyond family members and decided to devote the Foundation exclusively to protecting and restoring the environment of the Pacific Northwest. In 2016 it further refined its focus on urban ecology in the “Emerald Corridor” extending from Vancouver, British Columbia to Portland, Oregon.
The Foundation's mission is "to safeguard the natural environment by promoting responsible human activities and sustainable communities in the Pacific Northwest" by making grants to nonprofit organizations.
The Foundation also manages the Bullitt Environmental Prize, which provides $100,000 annually to an exceptional graduate student from a disadvantaged background who shows promise of evolving into a future environmental leader.
In 2009, the Foundation began developing the Bullitt Center, which has been called the "world's greenest office building" The building was completed in April 2013, and was certified as a "Living Building" under the ambitious Living Building Challenge in 2015.
As of June 2019 the board consisted of: Rod Brown (Chair), Harriet Bullitt, Maud Daudon, Mark Edlen, Erim Gomez, Frank Greer, Lisa Graumlich, Denis Hayes, Martha Kongsgaard, Bill Ruckelshaus, and Jessie Woolley-Wilson.