b'P U LT E I N S T I T U T E forG L O B A L D E V E L O P M E N T 2020 - 2021A N N U A L R E V I E W2020-2021 Directors UpdatePulte Family PartnershipA Year of Resilience In November 2019, the University of Notre Dame received aare mirrored in the work of the Pulte Institute to alleviate global $111 million partnership gift from the Pulte Family Charitablepoverty and inequality. Our partnership over the last two years Foundationthe largest of its kind at Notre Dame. A portionhas allowed the Institute to grow its portfolio of programs focused Resilience is a word often used in the international developmentof this gift was directed towards the endowment and directorshipon addressing global challenges, educating the next generation sector. Government organizations, nonprofits, and academics alikeof the Pulte Institute for Global Development.of leaders, and influencing policy to stimulate change. are consistently calling for the creation of resilient communitiesGuided by the belief in the inherent dignity of all people, theFrom working to improve humanitarian response programs in against global threats such as climate change, migration, andPulte Family Charitable Foundation works to meet the basicSouth Sudan and influencing USAID policies on long-term hunger. evaluation of global development impact, to training young human needs of the most marginalized members of the human In March 2020, we were forced to apply the word resilientfamily, including socio-economically disadvantaged youth; theAfrican leaders in entrepreneurship and improving primary to our own lives. Travel was put on hold and projects wereaged; persons with physical, emotional and mental disabilities;school education in Haiti, the Pulte Institute has accomplished halted as our team and their families learned how to navigateand those with the fewest material resources. In accordance withmuch over the last year and a half.our new normal safely.the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy, The Foundation makesWe are grateful to work with an organization whose leadership The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the stark reality ofRay Offenheiser Michael Sweikar grants and donations to organizations that fall into four areasand values not only align with those of the Pulte Institute and William J. Pulte Director andExecutive Directorpoverty and inequality across the globe. According to theProfessor of the Practice of giving: hunger and thirst, shelter, educational access, andthe Keough School of Global Affairs, but also enhance our United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs,care for others. credibility as a higher education institution working at the the coronavirus could reverse human development for the firstwe are humbled by our progress in the areas we believe will befrontlines of global development worldwide. time in 30 years, making the role of organizations like the Pultemost critical to alleviating global inequality in these challengingThe values of the Pulte Family Charitable Foundationin unity Institute for Global Development even more important as wetimes: humanitarianism, global health, sustainability, effectivewith Notre Dames commitment to Catholic social teachingwork to ensure that the worlds poorest and most vulnerablestates and development, business in development. Our communities are not forgotten in the wake of this crisis.success thus far is due in large part to the many of you who The pandemic should be a moment of reckoning for allhave supported us and continue to support the work that we Americans; a moment to ask ourselves how we can build thedo in the world.The Pulte Family Foundation, by our own power, could have never social and political institutions that might once again nourishThe Pulte Institute is entering the 2021-2022 academic yearaccomplished our genuine desire to be global agents of change.But nations. Our country is at our best in doing this when thestronger than ever, bringing with us 23 new projects, nine newby the power of the Holy Spirit, the two like-minded organizations worlds of academia and implementation are working together.team members, and the largest federal award Notre Dame has As part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, this work hasever received. But that does not mean we are no longer in needcame together, thus making it possible for the Pulte Institute to been at the core of our work for the last ten years.of resilience. The pandemic has left the worlds poorest moregrow these past couple of years exponentially in doing the work For the Pulte Institute, the pandemic was a reminder that we arevulnerable than ever before and, in many ways, our work isof Our Lord.The Pulte Family couldnt be happier with how the called by Notre Dames founder, Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C.,just beginning. It is resilience that will give us the strength to to be a powerful force for good. It has made us only strongercontinue our fight against global poverty and inequality. Institute continues to use our financial gift to build a more peace-in our commitment to fight poverty and inequality worldwide. In Notre Dame, filled, equitable world for all. As we look back on the last year and a halfour first as theNancy Pulte RickardPresident, Pulte Family Charitable Foundationnewly endowed Pulte Institute for Global DevelopmentNow to Him who is able to accomplish far more than all we ask or imagine, by the power at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. (Ephesians 3:20)2 3'