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April 9, 2021
The Gilberts have made a $30 million donation to Cranbrook Academy of Art, pictured above. // Photograph by PD Rearick
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“Our ultimate goal is to drive lasting financial stability while creating a more diverse and equitable community,” Jennifer Gilbert said of the $30 million gift to Cranbrook Academy of Art.
GILBERTS DONATE $30M TO CRANBROOK ART ACADEMY
THE NEWS: Jennifer and Dan Gilbert have donated $30 million to the Cranbrook Academy of Art to help make the private graduate school more accessible to underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. The gift, made directly by the founder and chairman of Detroit-based Rocket Companies Inc. and his entrepreneur wife, is the largest in the history of the academy and believed to be the largest to a graduate art program in the country.
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Dan, Jennifer Gilbert make $30M pledge to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills
Donation believed to be largest ever to graduate art program in US
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert and his wife, Jennifer, have given $30 million to a private graduate art school in suburban Detroit to help it accelerate its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The funding also will help with long-term fiscal sustainability, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills announced Tuesday.
“Our entire community will benefit from this. It’s not often that a gift like this comes around,” said Dominic DiMarco, president of Cranbrook Educational Community.