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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Teaching Resources contain lesson plans focused on Max Fisher's four key values: Wisdom, Generosity, Service, and Leadership. Lessons include individual and group activities and trigger questions for further thought.

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Robert Aronson on Max Fisher's fundraising prowess.
In the Fall of 1971, Henry Ford undertook the largest single building venture in Detroit’s history. The project was the Renaissance Center, also known as “RenCen.”
1994 National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony program showing Peter Golden and Mary Fisher as guest speakers.
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
Max discusses why he had been a successful fund-raiser.
American Jewish Committee Human Relations Award
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Henry Ford II presents a check to Max M. Fisher and the United Jewish Appeal.
Max Fisher in 25 words or less poster.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
Peter Golden offers an enlightening quote about Max Fisher from Ronald Reagan.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli President Ezer Weizman to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.