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Lowell Jay Milken (born November 29, 1948) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation.He is also the founder of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement as well as co-founder of Knowledge Universe, the world’s largest provider of early childhood education from 2005 until ...
Created in 1985 by education reformer and philanthropist Lowell Milken [1] [2] and first presented in 1987, this initiative of the Milken Family Foundation has presented awards to over 2,900 teachers across the United States, averaging around 30-40 teachers per year. [3] Teacher Magazine nicknamed the program the "Oscars of Teaching."
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.'
When the school became affiliated with Stephen S. Wise Temple, it was renamed Stephen S. Wise High School. After a large donation from Lowell and Michael Milken's Milken Family Foundation in 1995, the school, then reported to be the "largest non-Orthodox Jewish high school in the country", was named Milken Community High School. [2]
Milken may refer to: Michael Milken (born 1946), American financier and philanthropist, pleaded guilty in 1990 to U.S. securities law violation and pardoned by President Trump in 2020 Lowell Milken (born 1948), American businessman, philanthropist, brother of Michael
On March 11, 2014, the Milken Institute, Sumner Redstone Charitable Foundation and the Milken Family Foundation donated a combined total of $80 million in three gifts to the renamed Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH). The gifts also established the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness.
A scholarship is defined as a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other distinction. [1] "Scholarship" has a different meaning in the United States than it does in other countries, with the partial exception of Canada. Outside the U.S., scholarship is any type of monetary award to fund ...
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is a collection of material about the history of Jewish Music in the United States.It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an extensive collection of program notes and essays, and thousands of hours of video footage documenting recording sessions, interviews, and live performances.