So far as I can tell from essays in the local papers and in the NY Times and Wall Street Journal, the Sloan Foundation has not yet participated in this attempt to simultaneously protect pensions and the DIA collection. Alfred Sloan more or less ran GM from 1922 to 1956. Back in the pre Civil Rights Revolution days, the Sloan Foundation made some modest contributions to keep one or more of Detroit's Jim Crow hospitals alive. Recently, the Sloan Foundation has not been very active in Detroit. Does anyone know why?