April 06, 2021 - 11:28 AM
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.
Twenty full-tuition fellowships for students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups will be funded through the newly established Gilbert Fellows program. A permanent endowment to fund the fellowships also will be established.
Tuition relief and general support for the academyâs existing scholarships and visiting faculty artists over the next five years, with a focus on artists of colour, will receive funding.
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Dan and Jennifer Gilbert, founders of the Gilbert Family Foundation, discuss details Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Detroit, of a $500 million fund aimed at improving Detroit neighborhoods over the next decade. The effort is kicking off with $15 million to pay off the property tax debt of 20,000 of the city s poorest homeowners. In addition to starting Quicken Loans, now known as Rocket Mortgage, Dan Gilbert founded the Rock family of companies and owns the NBA s Cleveland Cavaliers.(AP Photo/Corey Williams) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
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.
Dan, Jennifer Gilbert give $30M to Detroit-area art academy
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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.
Twenty full-tuition fellowships for students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups will be funded through the newly established Gilbert Fellows program. A permanent endowment to fund the fellowships also will be established.
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