
Erb Family Foundation gifts $7.5 million to Detroit PBS for its move back to the city
Clip: Season 8 Episode 48 | 1m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
The Erb Family Foundation gifts $7.5 million to Detroit PBS for its move back to the city.
Detroit PBS is moving its headquarters back to the city. The Fred. A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation announced its plans to give a $7.5 million challenge grant to Detroit PBS to help with renovation of the new location. Detroit PBS President and CEO Rich Homberg talks about the gift’s impact with Erb Family Foundation President Melissa Damaschke and Chair John Erb.
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Erb Family Foundation gifts $7.5 million to Detroit PBS for its move back to the city
Clip: Season 8 Episode 48 | 1m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Detroit PBS is moving its headquarters back to the city. The Fred. A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation announced its plans to give a $7.5 million challenge grant to Detroit PBS to help with renovation of the new location. Detroit PBS President and CEO Rich Homberg talks about the gift’s impact with Erb Family Foundation President Melissa Damaschke and Chair John Erb.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipTheir family has issued a challenge for us and says we're going to put $7.5 million on the table.
Hey, Detroit.
Hey, Detroit PBS.
Let's find the other half.
Let's get this done.
And I think, you know, I remember when I took this job, there's always a sense with John Rich, this is hard work, but you're going to get it done right and we're going to get it done.
And so now the hard work begins of building out the rest of the funding for for the project.
We walk in meeting the Arab standard with the endorsement of this incredible family.
So hard work relentlessly, and we're going to get it done.
And the excitement around the Paquette operation and what we're going to build on this campus just grows and grows.
We're just so thrilled to support Detroit.
PBS, and we've been supporting Detroit PBS for many years through Great Lakes now, and that reflects our stewardship grantmaking that we make for Great Lakes and how do we all be good stewards of this magical place that we love with these wonderful, huge bodies of water?
John talked to me a little bit about legacy.
What kind of legacy is this project going to have?
You know, I think that the legacy of the project is really, you know, firstly is the involvement of the ERB family and my parents.
But it really is the legacy of the station and what the station has provided the city to Detroit, the community of Southeast Michigan, and also its broad tentacles that it has all over Watts Great Lakes.
Now it's seen by 20 to 2020 stations across the entire basin.
Every every station across the basin carries the monthly show daily content around the future of the Great Lakes Basin.
I mean, that's amazing.
That's amazing.
Truly,
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