The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Congratulatory letter from Henry Kissinger to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
Letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max M. Fisher, George Klein, and Richard Fox – the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Robert Aronson reflects on Max Fisher's historic influence on behalf of Israel.
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
Bill Berman talks about Max Fisher's commitment to finding consensus among groups in the pursuit of the right decision.
1961 United Foundation Torch Drive
Left to Right (seated): Gottlieb Hammer (Executive Vice Chairman, UIA); Melvin Dubinsky (President and Board Chairman of UIA); Frank Kellogg (Special Assistant to the Secretary of State) Left to Right (standing): Simcha Dinitz (Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.); Leonard Garment (Special Consultant to President Nixon); Walter Stoessel, Jr. (Assistant Secretary for European Affairs); Joseph Sisco (Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs); Marshall Wright (Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations); Max M. Fisher (Chairman, Jewish Agency Board of Governors).
Gerald Ford discusses Max Fisher's effectiveness.