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Environmental and Social Innovation
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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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Featured
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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
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