non-profit companies. Oki brought the Seattle Sounders back in 1994 with the intent of putting all profits into the Oki Foundation. Adrian Hanauer took over as managing partner of the Sounders in 2002. Oki is the Co-Chair of the United Way of King County Campaign Board and Co-Chair of the Million Dollar Roundtable, Founder and Chairman of the Japanese American Chamber of Commerce, Founder and Co-President of the Chief Seattle Council Boy Scout Foundation, Co-Founder of Sounders For Kids, Co-Founder of America's Foundation for Chess, Co-Founder of SeeYourImpact.org and Co-Founder of Social Venture Partners. He is a past-President of the Board of Regents for the University of Washington and a past Chair of Seattle Children's Hospital Foundation, which he joined upon the invitation of Mary Gates, mother of his former boss. Oki also serves on the national boards for United Way of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Japanese American National Museum, and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation. Scott Oki is a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization's governing body. Oki would often refer to his involvement in the Children's Hospital Foundation as a trigger point in his life, allowing him the insight that there are more interesting things to do than working eighty hours a week and that these included things that he can do for the community. Aside from his charitable activities, Oki and his wife, Laurie also founded a company called Nanny & Webster, which sells all-cotton blankets for babies. The couple donates all of the profits to children's charities in Seattle. Oki, along with Tom Ikeda, is one of the founders of the Densho project, a non-profit organization whose mission is “to preserve and share history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. Oki Golf In 1994, Scott Oki purchased The Golf Club at Echo Falls in Snohomish, Washington. This initial acquisition was the preliminary step toward building what eventually became a unique portfolio of golf properties known collectively as Oki Golf. This collection has grown to include nine properties comprising eleven championship golf courses, both public and private, spread throughout the Puget Sound. In addition to The Golf Club at Echo Falls, the Oki Golf portfolio also includes Indian Summer Golf & Country Club in Olympia, Washington (private), The Plateau Club in Sammamish, Washington (private), and The Woodlands and The Links courses (formerly Meriwood