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Environmental and Social Innovation
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Report
Electricity Access in Africa: Why a Green Energy Innovation Competition?
This report explores the challenges and opportunities surrounding accessible energy in Africa, emphasizing sustainable solutions...
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Report
Featured
Report
Electricity Access in Africa: Why a Green Energy Innovation Competition?
This report explores the challenges and opportunities surrounding accessible energy in Africa, emphasizing sustainable solutions...
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Report
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.
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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Stories from the Field: Milken–Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Meet the Finalists: Omnivat
Tell us about your team. Our team is composed of five members with diverse backgrounds who represent various corners of sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa, DR Congo, and Tanzania). We all met at the University of Cape Town and have been...Read Article
Stories from the Field: Milken–Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Meet the Finalists: Newdigit Technologies
Tell us about your team. On a rainy night in Nigeria, tragedy struck when Joy Egbe’s pregnant aunt brought her fossil-fuel-powered generator inside her apartment to shield it from the rain. This unintentional decision inadvertently exposed...Read ArticleStories from the Field: Milken–Motsepe Prize in Green Energy Meet the Finalists: GEG Geosleeve
Tell us about your team. GEG Geosleeve’s Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy work is led by a multinational team composed of energy development experts. The team is drawn from integrated sister companies: GEG KE based in Kenya, GEG Iceland...Read Article
Meet the Finalists: Smart Agri-Centres
Tell us about you/your team. Smart Villages and Kiima Foods are partners from the UK and Uganda who have worked together for many years. We are a diverse team from a range of backgrounds who are all committed to tackling the issue of energy...Read Article
Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalists: Hello Erf
Pictured (left to right): Dawit Ephrem, Birtukan Kassa, Gizachew Mesfin, Alazar Michael, and Dawit Lanteyideru. Milken Institute: Tell us about your team. Alazar Michael: One day, I was talking to a farmer in a village while leading a...Read Article
Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalists: IRRI
Pictured (left to right): Baboucarr Manneh and Venuprasad Ramaiah. Tell us about you/your team. Venuprasad Ramaiah and Baboucarr Manneh: Our group includes members from two sister organizations, one in Asia and the other in Africa. Our...Read Article
Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalists: Esoko
Pictured (left to right): Daniel Asare Kyei, Nana Okyir Baidoo, William Osei Agyemang, and Xose Ahlijah. Tell us about you/your team. Our team consists of professionals with diverse backgrounds, which reflects the broad-reaching objectives...Read Article
Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalists: The Toothpick Project
Pictured: Henry Sila Nzioki, Randa Osman, Suha Elhag, Wea Nichols, Leonard Afouda, Admire Shayanowako, Juliet Akello, Julius Sserumaga, Afiniki Zarafi, Seribe Katile, Nelson Opoku, Daouda Kone, Josephine Thome, Emanuel Mrema, David Sands...Read Article
Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalists: Koolmill
Pictured: Alec Anderson, Dan Zhao, Fiona Anderson, Abhishek Mishra, Seb Plowman and Penny Morton. Milken Institute: Tell us about your team? Alec Anderson: The Koolmill team is driven by vision and values. We are on a mission to make modern...Read Article
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Our Team
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Glorimar Aragon
Associate Director, Environmental and Social Innovation, Milken Institute Philanthropy
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Madeleine Cashin
Associate Director, Environmental and Social Innovation, Milken Institute Philanthropy
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Sara ElShafie
Senior Associate, Environmental and Social Innovation, Milken Institute Philanthropy
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Emily Musil
Senior Director, Social Innovation, Milken Institute Philanthropy
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John Schellhase
Director, Environmental and Social Innovation , Milken Institute Philanthropy