The best discussion on the Founders Society's grab for taxpayer support seems to be at MyFoxDetroit:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news...ns-20120203-ms

The Detroit News moderator apparently has a bias, since a comment I posted at many other news sites does not appear there in spite of several efforts to get it posted:
Other museums use the financial value of their collections in supporting their operations, and Detroit’s DIA collection — which is worth many, many billions of dollars — can support its operations too. The contractor running the DIA for Detroit — the Founders Society — is trying to make taxpayers pay their salaries even though they got their contract with Detroit by promising to raise their salaries from donors. Detroit should bring in a contractor that knows how to manage these assets financially as well as culturally. A competent asset manager could pay Detroit tens of millions of dollars a year over and above the expenses of running the DIA, letting Detroit better support the arts, sciences and humanities as well as essential public safety services.