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Priorities for Strategic Climate and Environmental Philanthropy
Climate disasters—including intensified droughts, wildfires, storms, and flooding—are on the rise globally, with cascading...
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Priorities for Strategic Climate and Environmental Philanthropy
Climate disasters—including intensified droughts, wildfires, storms, and flooding—are on the rise globally, with cascading...
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The Environmental and Social Innovation portfolio works with philanthropists, companies, and impact investors to uncover and support promising solutions, apply new tools, and mobilize entrepreneurial talent to advance progress in entrenched environmental and social challenges.
Workstreams
Sustainable Planet
We work with partners to landscape issues and recommend the strategies and tools that will spur progress and build toward a resilient and sustainable future.
Thriving Communities
We create programming to address entrenched social issues so that communities have the necessary resources to access and participate in a thriving and just society.
Individual Opportunity
We conduct rigorous research to identify opportunities for innovation across education, workforce development, and tech for good. We find and illuminate pathways for individuals to reach their full potential.
Gun Violence Prevention Initiative
Milken Institute has undertaken extensive research into gun violence in the US and has identified opportunities for philanthropic and business investments to engage on this issue.
Prize Programs at the Milken Institute
Milken Institute innovation prizes offer exciting and effective tools for partners interested in sourcing or scaling innovative solutions.
The purpose of the prize is to find anyone on this planet who has a good idea—who has an entrepreneurial way to solve a problem—and reward them.
Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute
Environmental and Social Innovation
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The Milken Institute 2025 Global Conference Convenes World Leaders, Visionaries, and Innovators in Los Angeles Beginning May 4
The Milken Institute’s 28th annual Global Conference opens today and runs through May 7, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Under the theme Toward a Flourishing Future, the conference will gather 1,000 speakers and 5,000 attendees...Read ArticleImage
Chad Clinton
Director, Media RelationsChad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
Priorities for Strategic Climate and Environmental Philanthropy
Climate disasters—including intensified droughts, wildfires, storms, and flooding—are on the rise globally, with cascading negative impacts on communities and ecosystems.Read Report
Climate Philanthropy Has Got a Prayer: Engaging Faith Communities for Climate Impact
The world needs every tool at its disposal to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. COP29 highlighted the urgent need for investments in climate adaptation, and even its $300 billion goal for climate finance in developing countries...Read ArticleImage
Kellen Silver
Senior Associate, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic PhilanthropyKellen Silver is a senior associate on the Environmental and Social Innovation team at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. In this role, he supports research and programming related to gun violence prevention and economic prosperity in the United States.
Overcoming Philanthropic Paralysis
A generational wealth transfer of trillions of dollars is occurring as baby boomers pass on their wealth to their children. Simultaneously, the world has witnessed a rise in the number of billionaires. Forbes reported that in 2021, 493...Read Article
Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Finalist: Milken-Motsepe Prize Finalist: Smart Agri-Centres
“The long-term impact of Smart Agri-Centers is a massive increase in incomes for farmers in rural communities. They are now able to operate their businesses for much longer hours. They're able to access energy that they couldn't access...Read ArticleMilken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Finalist: Milken-Motsepe Prize Finalist: Newdigit Technologies
“We're the first start-up in Nigeria that is manufacturing green hydrogen and fuel cell technology. This innovation, Just Add Water, has been tested and deployed in real communities and is a game changer for many communities in Africa.” —...Read ArticleMilken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Finalist: Milken-Motsepe Prize Finalist: GEG Group of Companies
“We went into this because it looks scalable and viable. There's lots of great technologies that are expensive. But we are attracted to this because the costs per kilowatt hour are quite competitive. We would not have developed a technology...Read ArticleMilken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Finalist: Milken-Motsepe Prize Runner-Up: OMNIVAT
“OMNIVAT was basically born out of ideas and previous work that all of these co-founders had worked on with the hopes that one day, someone somewhere will see Africans’ potential to our own problem-solving and the very real impact that we...Read ArticleMilken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Finalist: Milken-Motsepe Prize Grand Prize Winner: Aftrak
“Suddenly, we had a viable system, and we complete the economic circle to make our microgrid sustainable in the long term. [Before the prize], this did not exist. With the prize, we have slingshotted this into reality. We ended up with...Read Article
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Adoma Addo
Associate, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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Gaby Alvarado
Executive Assistant, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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Glorimar Aragon
Associate Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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Madeleine Cashin
Associate Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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Sara ElShafie, PhD
Senior Associate, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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Terry Mulligan
Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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Emily Musil, PhD
Managing Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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John Schellhase
Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
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Kellen Silver
Senior Associate, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy