The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) is committed to ensuring a highly skilled, strongly motivated and competitively compensated teacher for every classroom in America. Lowell Milken established NIETin 2005 as an
independent public charity to support and manage the TAP™ system nationally. Together, NIET and TAP create teacher excellence…student achievement…opportunities for all.

As a student/teacher think-tank, the Lowell Milken Center (LMC) was established by the Lowell Milken Family Foundation in 2007 to galvanize a movement for teaching respect and understanding among all people regardless of race, religion or creed. This mission is pursued throughout America and around the world via educational projects that feature unsung heroes as role models to “repair the world.”

Music and education have always been central to the Jewish people. In this spirit, Lowell Milken founded the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience to explore the vast panorama of sacred and secular works reflecting three centuries of Jewish life in America. Since its founding in 1990, this historic recording project has grown to encompass more than 700 newly recorded works — including 500 world premiere recordings — by more than 200 composers.

UCLA School of Law has received a transformative $10 million gift — the largest single gift in the school's history — from Alumnus Lowell Milken, enabling the law school to meet and exceed its ambitious $100 million fundraising goal well ahead of its original five-year schedule.The gift establishes the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy and serves as the capstone of the school's $100 million endowment campaign.