The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Jane Sherman talks about her father's motivation to help rebuild Detroit after the 1967 riots.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Max Fisher at his office in the Fisher Building.
Left to Right: Dan Lavin, Art Howard, Max Fisher, Abe Green, John Leerie, and Joseph Holtzman take a break for lunch during the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign.
United Jewish Appeal V-E Day Commemorative Medal
Peter Cummings relates Max Fisher's instinct to work behind the scenes.
"The Amazing Life of Max Fisher" ran as the feature story on the front page of The Detroit Free Press on October 2, 2003 and detailed the life of the philanthropist and the opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Place.
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
Anti-Defamation League Honors
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
Peter Cummings explains why Max Fisher is such an effective fund-raiser.
"Believe in a brighter future for Detroit" article
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Max discusses why he had been a successful fund-raiser.
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.