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Davidson Foundation gives
$15 million to the DSO.
T
J. Gerson, a member of the William
Davidson family, the William Davidson
Foundation Executive Committee and
the DSO Board of Directors. “We want
this world-class orchestra — this com-
munity jewel — to enrich audiences
in our region and across the globe for
generations to come. The DSO’s exem-
plary leadership, musical artistry and
unmatched accessibility continue to
inspire us. We hope the Foundation’s
$5 million challenge grant will inspire
others to contribute to the endowment
campaign and thereby become
lifelong supporters.”
This challenge from the
William Davidson Foundation has
already been halfway met, thanks
to new support from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, the Fred
A. and Barbara M. Erb Family
Foundation, and the Dresner
Foundation.
The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation is meeting the chal-
lenge with a new $2 million gift
to the DSO’s endowment ( for a
total of $2.75 million when com-
bined with its recently announced
annual fund gift) to support the
work of the DSO’s Social Progress
Initiative. This includes bolster-
ing enrollment for underserved youth
in the DSO’s Civic Youth Ensembles
program, growing the talent of these
students through regular private lessons
and expanding the orchestra’s African-
American Fellowship program to have
two fellows in the orchestra simultane-
ously.
The Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb
Foundation is giving $1 million to the
DSO’s endowment to meet the chal-
lenge, adding to its ongoing operating
support for several artistic initiatives
including the DSO’s Civic Jazz Ensemble.
Prior to the start of the foundation,
Fred and Barbara Erb also personally
endowed the DSO’s Erb Jazz Creative
Director Chair beginning in 2001 and
currently held by Terence Blanchard.
The Dresner Foundation is giving
$500,000 in new support to this chal-
lenge, in addition to $600,000 it pledged
to the orchestra in March to provide
comprehensive music education for
underserved youth through increased
classroom visits and the establish-
ment of a new entry-level program in
the DSO’s Civic Youth Ensembles. The
Dresner Foundation Allegro Ensemble
launched in September at Duke
Ellington Elementary on Detroit’s east
side with 32 students. •
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he Detroit Symphony Orchestra
(DSO) announced that it has
received new and increased sup-
port totaling $18.5 million from four
foundations: the William Davidson
Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, the Fred A. and Barbara M.
Erb Family Foundation, and the Dresner
Foundation. The donations will support
a variety of programs by the orchestra
both on the stage and in the community,
as well as add to its long-term financial
sustainability.
The William Davidson Foundation,
longtime supporter of the DSO, is giving
$15 million to the orchestra. The new
gift includes continued sponsorship of
the William Davidson Neighborhood
Concert Series, which has brought the
DSO into community venues across
Southeast Michigan for the past seven
years. The pledge also features a $5 mil-
lion challenge grant to the DSO’s perma-
nent endowment to inspire additional,
widespread support.
In recognition of this significant gift,
the DSO announced that the atrium at
the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music
Center will from now on be named the
William Davidson Atrium.
“The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has
recently achieved tremendous success-
es, with five consecutive balanced bud-
gets, increased individual giving and our
highest ticket sales in years,” said Mark
Davidoff, chairman of the DSO Board
of Directors and Michigan managing
partner of Deloitte. “While there is more
to be done as we move into the second
half of our 10-year plan, we want to take
the time to thank all those who have
believed in and supported our vision to
increase and broaden the DSO’s impact
in our resurgent city and region.”
“Our family’s support of the DSO
began three generations ago,” says Ralph
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