10,000 Communities

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Alexander Meeks

Director, 10,000 Communities Initiative, Milken Institute Finance
Alexander Meeks is a director at Milken Institute Finance. He focuses on helping communities accelerate resilient disaster recovery and adapt to extreme weather events.
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Rachel Halfaker

Director, 10,000 Communities Initiative, Milken Institute Finance
Rachel Halfaker is a director at Milken Institute Finance. Halfaker works on the public finance and resilient infrastructure work which focuses on identifying innovative partnership and financing models for the public finance field and emerging investment strategies for resilient infrastructure.
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Savannah Richardson

Senior Associate, Public Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Savannah Richardson is a senior associate for Milken Institute Finance at the Milken Institute. Richardson works within the Excellence and Equity in Public Finance Program, supporting the Community Infrastructure Center platform and the CFO Forum programming.
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Rachel Reilly

Senior Director, Milken Institute Finance
Rachel Reilly is the founder and CEO of Aces & Archers, a strategic advisory and consulting firm focused on addressing socioeconomic inequality by reimagining traditional models for economic growth and private investing.
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Sarah Ortner

Associate Director, Public Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Sarah Ortner is an associate director with Milken Institute Finance. She focuses on the Institute’s Excellence and Equity in Public Finance initiatives, with a portfolio that includes climate resilience, community infrastructure deployment, and emerging markets.

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Many communities face barriers to funding the critical infrastructure needed for long-term growth. The 10,000 Communities Initiative works with public and private partners nationwide to connect people, projects, and capital in support of equitable investment in lasting community resilience.

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We work in partnership with other private and public organizations around the U.S. to ensure to connect people, projects and partners to facilitate the effective and equitable distribution of resources to traditionally underfunded communities and support long-term community resilience.

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Dan Carol

Managing Director, Milken Institute Finance
Dan Carol is a managing director on the Milken Institute Finance team. He leads Institute programming to accelerate effective deployment and financing of community-scale and climate resilient infrastructure, scale up regional innovation, and scale-up public-private partnerships.
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