Milken Family Foundation

Milken Family Foundation

Formation	1982;43 years ago (1982)
Type	Private foundation
Purpose	education and medical research
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California
Coordinates	34°01′04″N118°29′49″W / 34.0177631°N 118.4969884°W / 34.0177631; -118.4969884
Region served	Global
Chairman & Co-Founder	Lowell Milken
Co-Founder	Michael Milken
Revenue	$27,852,920 [1] (2014)
Expenses	$16,684,835 [1] (2014)
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. ^[2] South Carolina TAP was featured in TIME Magazine's February 2008 cover story. ^[3] In 2006, BusinessWeek ranked TAP on its Top 10 List of Best Practices. ^[4] The system was profiled in Education Week. ^[5]
• 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

• Milken Institute

References

1. "Milken Family Foundation" (PDF). Foundation Center. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
2. "Aligned by Design," Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
3. Wallis, Claudia (February 13, 2008). "How to Make Great Teachers". Time . Archived from the original on February 25, 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
4. "Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2006. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
5. TAP: More Than Performance Pay

External links

• Media related to Milken Family Foundation at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website