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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 ...
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.'
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."
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Scams by "paid editing companies" have been happening on Wikipedia since at least the 2015 Operation Orangemoody scandal, which was documented by the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as by the Guardian, Independent, and Signpost. The Orangemoody scam worked like an extortion racket.
Between 1964 and its bankruptcy in 1973, the mutual fund and life insurance conglomerate Equity Funding ran a Ponzi scheme using fictitious life insurance policies. It sold these policies to reinsurance companies, using the money it received from these sales and from alleged deaths of policyholders to pay the incurred premiums.
A fundraising letter for Eric DeValkenaere on behalf of his wife Sarah contains false claims about the death of Cameron Lamb at the former Kansas City police officer’s hands.
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]