The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

The Resource Center provides access to a database of photos, video clips, letters, documents, newspaper articles, awards and other archival material. There are several user-friendly ways to search the Resource Center. The “Quick Search” field above offers a keyword search for those who know what they are looking for. Searches can also be filtered by Topic and Type from the pull-down menus to the right. Click on any item on this screen to see more detailed information. On each detail page, click on the Related Resources for additional items of related interest.

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1994 National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony program showing Peter Golden and Mary Fisher as guest speakers.
A photograph of the then four living presidents, signed by each, presented to Max Fisher in 1998, along with a personal letter from Gerald Ford.
Max Fisher with Richard Nixon in the White House
Jane Sherman talks about her father's success in fundraising.
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
Letter to President George H.W. Bush the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center
Max Fisher, Gerald Ford and other members of the UJA and the State Department signing the contract in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the State Dept. Building.
A 1966 Detroit Jewish News article titled "Israel is Facing Massive Absorption Job" quotes Max Fisher heavily.
Gerald Ford recalls Max Fisher's effective fundraising.
Gene Miller remembers Max Fisher's integrity, honesty and ability to listen.
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.