Wilson 5 Foundation

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Press Releases

Press Release
01 / 22 / 2025
BC Parks Foundation Supports Expansion of Rosebud Lake Regional Park to Protect Western Painted Turtles
Press Release
09 / 25 / 2024
Funders Come Together to Protect Fragile Ecosystems on Southern Vancouver Island
Press Release
08 / 24 / 2024
Salish Sea Lands Protected Forever
Press Release
05 / 28 / 2024
District of West Vancouver Announces Huge New Park
Press Release
07 / 08 / 2023
Wilson 5 Foundation supports further development of the Sea to Sky Trail expansion
Press Release
10 / 10 / 2022
Wilson 5 Foundation pledges $100 Million to preserve and protect British Columbia’s natural spaces
Press Release
09 / 17 / 2021
Chip Wilson's Foundation continues its land conservancy efforts through $6 Million donation to The Nature Trust of BC to re-naturalize and enhance the Englishman River Estuary and to create public access nature park
Press Release
06 / 22 / 2021
Saturnina Island - Protected, Forever.
Press Release
12 / 08 / 2012
Ready, set, create! KPU announces new Chip and Summer Wilson School of Design
Media
W5F and BC Parks ceremony at Saturnina Island

In the Media

Victoria News
10 / 02 / 2024
200 Acres Preserved in the South Island
Canada's National Observer
08 / 30 / 2024
How One Partnership Preserves the Natural Beauty of the Sunshine Coast
Penticton Western News
08 / 29 / 2024
$10.5M Land Purchase to Extend Okanagan Lake Provincial Park
Vancouver Sun
08 / 25 / 2024
BC Parks Foundation Announces Protection of Coastal Habits With Funding From Wilson 5 Foundation
West Vancouver
05 / 28 / 2024
District of West Vancouver Announces Huge New Park
CBC
09 / 16 / 2022
Wilson 5 Foundation Pledges $100M to Preserve and Protect British Columbia's Natural Spaces
CoastReporter
02 / 22 / 2023
Chip Wilson's Foundation Donates $1.2M to PODS
Parksville Qualicum Beach News
09 / 17 / 2021
Wilson 5 Foundation donates $6M to preserve Englishmen River Estuary in Parksville
Nanaimo News Now
09 / 17 / 2021
Ecological future of Island's Englishmen River secured through multi-million dollar donation
CBC News
06 / 30 / 2021
$4M donation helps protect threatened BC island.
The Guardian
06 / 30 / 2021
Lululemon founder buys Canadian islands to conserve eco-system.
Coast Reporter
04 / 28 / 2020
Lululemon founder’s family chips in $8.4 million for PODS
CBC
04 / 04 / 2019
Vancouver's Trans Am Totem saved by $250K donation from Chip and Shannon Wilson
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is a Wilson Family Project

  • Chip Wilson

    Chip Wilson is a serial entrepreneur, devoted husband and dedicated father to five sons. He creates possibilities for people to live longer, healthier, more fun lives in his pursuit to elevate the world from mediocrity to greatness.

  • House of Wilson

    House of Wilson manages the various initiatives, investments, and community impact efforts of the Wilson Family, including the creation of public parks and art.

  • SOLVE FSHD

    We are catalyzing and innovation around facioscapulohumeral muscular dystropy - focused on accelerating research, drug development and clinical trials for effective FSHD therapies.

  • Wilson 5 Foundation

    The Wilson 5 Foundation is making lasting contributions to British Columbia by supporting land conservancy, park creation and public art that encourages movement. Through their foundation, the Wilsons have supported land conservancy with initiatives such as the purchase and preservation in perpetuity of land and islands of the Salish Sea.

  • Low Tide Properties

    Low Tide Properties is a real estate investment company which immerses itself into the emerging neighbourhoods they know best while working to become part of the community.

  • Wilson Capital

    Investing in companies that create possibilities for people to live longer, healthier, more fun lives and that align with our vision and values.

  • Imagine1day

    imagine1day was founded in 2007 by Canadian philanthropists Summer and Chip Wilson with the goal of ensuring that all Ethiopian children have access to quality education, free of foreign aid, by 2030.

  • Summer Wilson

    Summer Wilson is a technical designer, entrepreneur, athlete, philanthropist, artist and mom. As the founding lead designer at lululemon athletica, she designed some of the company’s most successful and iconic products. Today, she is expanding the multiple projects and pillars within House of Wilson, and launched her inaugural art collection Organic Formulas in 2024.