Spotlight Stories

2007-2017 Living for Relationships Having the ability to connect, influence and bring people together is a unique ability that few can master.  Eugene Applebaum not only loved building relationships — he lived to build relationships.  Being a strategic relationship convener was a major definition of his success as a business and philanthropic leader and forms […]

7/31/19 Pamela Applebaum has long understood that the vitality of our communal organizations depends on leadership – particularly, an inspired cadre of “professional” leaders. The creation of the Applebaum Program for Non-Profit Internships at the University of Michigan was formed with this essential goal in mind. The Applebaum Internship program, through the University of Michigan […]

Summer, 2016 The Applebaum Fellowship Program is about providing unique opportunities – opening a door, making a new connection, offering experience to the ambitious. For William Underwood, one of the inaugural Applebaum Fellows, the opportunity to work as a Wayne State University student intern at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2016, was perhaps a pivotal […]