Overview

Pulte Homes’ responsibility is not just to build homes, but to build and improve communities and positively impact the lives of our neighbors. Our divisions and employees across the country give back through charitable giving and volunteer outreach, and are encouraged to share this outreach with colleagues as Pulte provides up to two paid days off per year for employee volunteer efforts.

In 2008, Pulte’s division teams and employees combined to share more than $1.65 million to benefit a wide range of local charities, non-profit organizations, youth groups, schools and municipal improvement projects.

A few examples of our social outreach across the country:

Pulte’s Michigan division recently completed a duplex home in the city of Pontiac in cooperation with Home Aid Michigan and the Grace Centers of Hope. The Rhonda Hart House took shape in only 77 working days with the support of more than 30 Pulte Homes trade partners and suppliers, and will give two formerly homeless mothers and their children the opportunity to continue their journey of recovery and rebuilding after completing Grace Centers’ one-year Life Skills program. General Electric donated all of the home’s appliances, while Masco Corp. donated custom cabinetry. Pulte Homes provided construction oversight, volunteer labor, and more than $15,000 in furnishings for the units.

Several Pulte divisions showed their appreciation for U.S. military veterans in 2008, volunteering time and talent to build specially adapted homes for wounded soldiers and collecting supplies for troops overseas. In Indianapolis, an injured Marine corporal will enjoy a new Pulte home thanks to efforts from Pulte’s construction team and the suppliers and vendors who have donated labor and materials to make the house more suitable for his wheelchair following a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq in 2006. In Colorado, the Pulte Homes and Pulte Mortgage teams partnered with “Homes for our Troops” and the AmeriDream organization to design and build an adapted home for an injured Army veteran and his wife. In Tucson, Pulte employees collected nearly 1,200 pounds of supplies including toiletries, entertainment and comfort items to benefit injured soldiers recovering at the U.S. Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Ramstein, Germany through the Air National Guard 161st Medical Group.

Pulte’s Florida divisions are consistently involved in community outreach efforts. Among their accomplishments in 2008, Pulte’s Tampa team devoted more than 540 hours of volunteer time to an “extreme makeover” of the Wilbert Davis Branch of the Boys & Girls Club, which serves more than 150 children a year. In southwest Florida, Pulte employees renovated the GAP school, which serves extraordinary children affected with mental illnesses.

Pulte divisions across the country regularly lend their support to their local Habitat for Humanity chapters. In 2008, Pulte’s Mid-Atlantic team led the “Builders Blitz” to construct three homes in four days in Hartford, Md. Other 2008 Habitat projects aided by Pulte support included homes in Raleigh, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis and San Antonio.

Among the organizations supported by Pulte Homes’ corporate charitable giving in 2008 were scholarship programs for Detroit high school students through the Jalen Rose Foundation and Curtis Granderson GrandKids Foundation, founded by local athletes; Lighthouse Emergency Services; The Rainbow Connection; Angels’ Place homes for adults with developmental disabilities; the Motor City Lyric Opera’s “Opera on Wheels” program and the Beaumont Foundation’s “First Words Society” for childhood speech and language treatment.

As we look down the road on our sustainability journey, we know that Pulte and the homebuilding industry are just starting to tap into the potential of energy efficiency, water conservation, sustainable products and green building practices that will ultimately help to sustain not just our business, but our homes, our communities and our planet for years to come. We look forward to continued progress in 2009 and beyond, as we continue to integrate sustainability into all aspects of a responsible strategy for Pulte Homes. We are grateful for the employees, shareholders, trade partners, municipalities and homeowners who support us on this journey, and pledge to make responsible choices that tie their interests and input to our Company’s strategy.

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Charitable giving guidelines and application

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.