Environmental and Social Innovation

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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. 

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Our environment and social innovation team creates trailblazing programming for philanthropists committed to sustainability and social impact. 

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Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC)

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Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) works to develop, launch, and lead initiatives that propel scientific and medical research. We target investments that accelerate the development of tools and treatments, bringing better health to millions of people. 

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We are scientists, with a deep understanding of research ecosystems, the importance of good science to advancing human health, and how to apply the philanthropic mechanisms that will lead to long-term change.

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Philanthropy Leadership Collective

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Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy’s Philanthropy Leadership Collective is a platform for learning, peer engagement, and collaboration designed for funders across the philanthropy ecosystem. Individual philanthropists, institutional foundation leaders, and corporate philanthropy executives participate in invitation-only convenings to learn from one another, forge partnerships, and gain fresh perspectives on evolving trends and actionable opportunities to amplify the impact of their giving. 

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The Philanthropy Leadership Collective (PLC) convenes members around shared interest areas and priorities. The PLC portfolio includes the Philanthropic Investors Forum, the Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) Collective, and the Corporate Philanthropy Leadership Collective.

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Public Health

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Public Health at the Milken Institute develops research, programs, and initiatives to activate sustainable solutions leading to better health for individuals and communities worldwide. To catalyze policy, system, and environmental change in public health and sustain impact, we approach our work in four interconnected areas: Prevention and Chronic Disease, Mental Health, Health Equity, and Employers and Public Health Priorities, which includes the Employer Action Exchange.

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We are working to drive policy, system, and environmental change in public health in four interconnected practice areas.

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Future of Aging

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The Future of Aging advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through research, convening, multisector partnerships, and the elevation of high-impact policies and practices.

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Feeding Change

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Feeding Change advances food systems transformation by generating action-oriented research, activating financial levers, engaging policymakers and industry leaders, and convening key stakeholders to catalyze a more nutritious, accessible, sustainable, and resilient food system.

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Through our programs and focus areas, we collaborate with cross-sector stakeholders and experts, bring together influential changemakers, convene food leaders at Milken Institute events, advance the integration of Food Is Medicine into health care, champion food system resilience and global food security, and explore how market-based innovations and public/private investment can address complex food systems.

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FasterCures

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FasterCures is working to build a system that is effective, efficient, and driven by a clear vision: patient needs above all else. We believe that transformative and life-saving science should be fully realized and deliver better treatments to the people who need them.

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Today's biomedical research system is often siloed, bureaucratic, and too slow to meet the needs of patients across the globe. We accelerate biomedical science and innovation to remove unnecessary barriers so that lifesaving and life-enhancing treatments can reach those who need them as rapidly and as safely as possible.

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Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is executive founder of the Way to Wellville, a 10-year nonprofit project devoted to showing the value of investment in community health (not health *care*) in a way that returns profits to investors and payers, and health to participants and communities.
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J. Nadine Gracia

J. Nadine Gracia is the president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health policy, research, and advocacy organization in Washington, DC committed to promoting optimal health for every person and community and making health equity foundational to policymaking at all levels of society.
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Mary Grealy

Mary Grealy is president of the Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of chief executives of the nation’s leading health care companies and organizations. The HLC advocates consumer-centered health care reform, emphasizing the value of private sector innovation.