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Milken Institute Finance

Pathways to Capital

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Milken Institute 2025 Finance Forum Welcomes Business, Government, and Cross-Sector Experts to Discuss US and Global Resilient Infrastructure, and Bottom-Up Economic Development Strategies

Washington, DC (March 5, 2025)—Today, the Milken Institute 2025 Finance Forum convenes more than 250 leaders, innovators...

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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations

Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.

Featured

News Release

Milken Institute 2025 Finance Forum Welcomes Business, Government, and Cross-Sector Experts to Discuss US and Global Resilient Infrastructure, and Bottom-Up Economic Development Strategies

Washington, DC (March 5, 2025)—Today, the Milken Institute 2025 Finance Forum convenes more than 250 leaders, innovators...

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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations

The Milken Institute’s Pathways to Capital portfolio includes our signature programs designed to support the deployment of capital to people, places, and projects. This portfolio focuses on lifting up small business owners, emerging talent, and critical community infrastructure projects through direct engagement, innovation, and public-private partnerships. Pathways to Capital offers technical assistance training, resources, and connectivity to catalytic capital and capacity to help communities build long-term economic resilience and support the next generation of local leadership.

Pathways to Capital

Practice Areas

10,000 Communities

The 10,000 Communities initiative works to connect people, projects, and partners together to build equitable economic outcomes in under-served communities across the U.S.

Better Bonds and Best Practices

Muni bonds fund 2/3 of all U.S. built infrastructure. Our better bonds team works to address the challenges of 50,000+ diverse muni market issuers, inspire outcomes-based thinking, promote equitable uses of bond proceeds, and incentivize critical best practices such as better asset management and procurement to scale up the impact of public financing.

Community Infrastructure Center

The Community Infrastructure Center (CIC) is an innovative solution to scale up equitable capital deployment and accelerate community-led community infrastructure projects in historically underserved communities. The CIC offers free technical assistance capacity for community project sponsors, project advancement tools, and links to a wide range of sources—including impact and institutional investors, federal and state grants, philanthropy, and project development expertise.

Inclusive Capitalism

Milken Institute Finance’s Inclusive Capitalism (ICAP) Program aims to create a business environment that produces long-term value that benefits all stakeholders, including businesses, investors, employees, customers, governments, and communities. Our work focuses on the importance of democratizing alternatives and expanding access across the business community and works toward greater diversity...

Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship

Small businesses are the heartbeat of our economy. They account for almost half of our GDP and employ nearly half of all private-sector workers. Entrepreneurs of color represent the fastest growing segment of the small business market, yet they have the least access to capital. They are more likely to be denied credit; more likely to pay high interest rates; and less likely to apply for loans out...

Regional Partnerships

Cross-sectoral collaboration is key to build bottom-up innovation economic results between businesses, communities, and federal, state, and local governments. We work with partners to create regional strategies and events to effectively link together investors, technical assistance experts, and community leaders to build local and national resilience and long-term competitiveness.