Billionaire Lululemon Founder Donates $75 Million to Help Protect Wilderness

Billionaire Lululemon Founder Donates $75 Million to Help Protect Wilderness
Shoppers form a line outside of Lululemon at International Plaza in Tampa, Fla., on Nov. 26, 2021. Octavio Jones/Getty Images
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Chip Wilson, the billionaire founder of multinational athletic apparel retailer Lululemon Inc., is gifting more than $75 million—the biggest private donation in Canadian conservation history—to help protect, enhance, and sustain British Columbia’s natural spaces.

Wilson and his wife, Summer, announced the donation at an event held in Vancouver’s Stanley Park on Sept. 15, noting that the charity will be made through the Wilson 5 Foundation, a philanthropic family foundation.
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