Billionaire Dan Gilbert has an outsized role in his home city of Detroit, including far-reaching philanthropy. A new program focuses on BIPOC artists as part of his foundation’s revitalization efforts.
Read MoreDan Gilbert’s recent pledge to donate $500 million to Detroit, where he has an outsized role as owner, taxpayer, investor and philanthropist, offers an extreme example of billionaire donors’ growing role in American cities.
Read MorePhilanthropy has played a critical role in revitalizing Detroit. But a billionaire-backed new research center downtown has triggered a backlash in an era of rising fears about gentrification and the overreach of private power.
Read MoreThe Gilbert Family Foundation, a leader in research funding for the incurable disease Neurofibromatosis type 1, has upped its game. Not content to just treat symptoms, the funder recently announced a three-year, $12 million initiative to find a cure.
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