$2.5 Million Gifted To Cleveland Institute Of Music

CLEVELAND — Three donors recently made a combined $2.5 million gift to the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), the organization announced this month. Barbara Robinson and Cleveland couple Barbara W. and A. Malachi Mixon made the contributions.

Robinson gifted $1.5 million to CIM to establish the Robinson Family Presidential Scholarship, which will provide full tuition, plus room and board fees for one student. The Mixsons' donation will create the A. Malachi Mixon III and Barbara W. Mixon Dean's Scholarship, which will award full tuition to an outstanding student.

"Few families have left such an indelible imprint on CIM as the Robinsons and Mixons. Their extraordinary support is a tremendous vote of confidence in the work we do every day,” CIM President and CEO Paul Hogle. said.

The Mixon and Robinson families have donated nearly $10 million to CIM over their lifetimes.

Over the past 12 months, CIM has raised nearly $13 million for scholarships as part of the organization's Blueprint:100, a strategy for ensuring success over the next century. CIM leaders said they are trying to reduce tuition costs, raise additional scholarship dollars and continue renovations at the campus. CIM also recently completed a new student housing complex.

"We’re humbled to have such warm, compassionate friends – and visionary leaders – as Mal and Barbara Mixon and Barbara Robinson in our corner. Their generosity in the last several years has been deeply inspiring and a testament to the value the Institute brings to people locally and globally,” Hogle said. “We are very grateful to them for their unwavering and fervent support of CIM. Their legacies and those of all who are champions of CIM will provide for the future of classical music for generations to come.”