Milken Family Foundation
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| Motto | Leading Advances in Education and Medical Research |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1982 |
| Type | Private foundation |
| Purpose | education and medical research |
| Headquarters | Santa Monica, California |
| Coordinates | 34°01′04″N 118°29′49″W / 34.0177631°N 118.4969884°WCoordinates: 34°01′04″N 118°29′49″W / 34.0177631°N 118.4969884°W |
Region served | Global |
Chairman & Co-Founder | Lowell Milken |
Co-Founder | Michael Milken |
| Website | www.mff.org |
The Milken Family Foundation is a private foundation established by Lowell Milken and Michael Milken in 1982. Lowell Milken serves as chairman and co-founder of the foundation.
Goals
The foundation is focused primarily on supporting education and medical research.
Among the foundation's initiatives are:
- The Milken Educator Awards, a teacher recognition program awarding $25,000 to individual educators for teaching excellence;
- TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, a comprehensive school reform incorporating career advancement, collaborative professional development, teacher accountability and performance-based compensation. T The Center for American Progress released "Aligned by Design," a report by education researcher Craig Jerald that elaborated on this concept to specifically show how TAP's elements work together.[1] South Carolina TAP was featured in TIME Magazine's February 2008 cover story.[2] In 2006, BusinessWeek ranked TAP on its Top 10 List of Best Practices.[3] he system was profiled in Education Week.[4]
- Milken Archive of Jewish Music, a cultural and historic project dedicated to preserving the sacred and secular music inspired by 350 years of Jewish life in America;
- The Lowell Milken Center, an institution dedicated to the development of educational projects that feature unsung heroes as role models to 'repair the world.' Howard Cohen, Chancellor of Purdue University/Calumet, said about the LM Center: “History is not history until it is written or told. This is what you are doing so well with your unsung hero projects.”
- Milken-University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Education Business Plan Competition - Education entrepreneurs from early-stage start-ups compete in the competition, which features seven prizes totaling $145,000 in funding. In addition to the prizes, all Competition finalists are invited to participate in the Education Design Studio Fund (EDSF), a fund initiative created in collaboration with Penn GSE.
2010 Milken Educator Award winners receive their awards at the Educator Forum
See also
References
- ↑ "Aligned by Design,"
- ↑ Wallis, Claudia (February 13, 2008). "How to Make Great Teachers". Time. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ↑ TAP: More Than Performance Pay
External links
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