The Henry Ford & the Community
The Henry Ford partners with over 130 community-based organizations that provide direct social services to underserved and underrepresented clientele in the metropolitan Detroit area. Through these partnerships, The Henry Ford provides free general daytime admission to all three campuses, networking opportunities and access to resources that may further support the mission of our partner organizations.
Community Impact
The Henry Ford is a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Each revenue dollar from a special event is used to continue the work of The Henry Ford including research, education, and exhibition development. The buildings, artifacts and documents that Henry Ford collected serve as the bedrock of the institution’s vast, growing and continually evolving collections to this day. Your contributions help preserve and activate over 26 million objects and documents all helping to inspire others to learn from the past to help make a better future.
In addition to our preservation efforts we are collaborating internally and externally to spotlight new stories and new facets of our shared American experience for growing audiences of designers and researchers as well as the general public through our ongoing digitization effort. Through your help we are making our artifacts and content from the Archive of American Innovation more accessible to more people in more ways than ever.
Accessibility, after all, isn’t only a matter of showing the objects themselves but also a matter of the language and concepts used to introduce and explain them — the jumping off points for telling stories, engaging people, helping them to make personal connections, and then taking them on a journey to somewhere new.
Ticket Donations
Thank you for your interest in a donation from The Henry Ford. We are happy to consider a donation of a four-pack of general admission tickets to organizations that meet the below criteria:
- Requests must be made on behalf of a nonprofit organization.
- The donation must be used for a fundraiser.
- The organization must serve one of the following areas: Education, Health & Human Services, Arts & Humanities.
Unfortunately, The Henry Ford is unable to donate to extracurricular programs or fundraisers held by individuals or family groups.
Please make sure you have the following ready prior to filling out the form. Any requests not properly completed will be disregarded.
- Organization name and contact information
- Tax ID Number
- Name and date of the event
All selected participants will receive their tickets within eight weeks of submission via USPS at the address indicated using the form below.
Requests not submitted via this form will not be accepted. For more information please see the FAQs below the form.
Thank you again for reaching out, and we wish you luck on your fundraiser.
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