The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) has been named the recipient of a $1 million grant from the Ford Foundation to develop and implement a strategic fundraising and marketing campaign leveraging the artistic excellence of its Music Director Leonard Slatkin.

The federal government is launching a $7 million grant program to help kick-start training to prepare laid-off autoworkers and other unemployed people for a second career.

General Motors’ new Website, GMReinvention.com, is intended to provide media, customers, employees, retirees, dealers, suppliers, bondholders, investors and other interested parties with a single source of information about GM’s actions to launch the New GM.