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Client: Governance Lab, Expertise
Team: Andrea Arce, Colin Bottles, Lauren Bush, Danielle Emery
Founded in 2012, Governance Lab (GovLab) is an action research center seeking new ways to solve complex public problems facing governments and nonprofit organizations. “Enhanced Expertise Identification” is one such method, now in its infancy as a field. …
Client: Nonprofit Enterprise at Work
Team: Justine Beaton, Allison Raaum, Rose Schapiro
Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW) is a nonprofit organization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, focused on building management capacity and developing solutions for other nonprofit organizations. A small, but robust, organization in a period of growth, NEW …
Client: Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Team: Hal Jones, Lauren Jones, Ben Kaplan, Lauren Miani, Swapan Prajapati, Yamini Shah
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC) strives to provide accessible, cost-effective, high-quality health care. Recently, JHMC has implemented three pilot care-transition programs: 1) The Intensive Multidisciplinary Primary Care Team (IMPACT), 2) the …
Client: Governance Lab, National Health Service England
Team: Brenden Desmond, Jillian Dimaano, Christian Laurence, Claudia Paz, Christina Rogawski, Shammara Wright
National Health Service (NHS) England, the national health care provider for England, is developing an open data strategy for its health and social care programs. NHS England partnered with NYU’s Governance Lab (GovLab) and the Capstone team to capture …
Client: Westchester County Long-Term Recovery Coalition, United Way of Westchester and Putnam
Team: Keita Nishimura, Genai Rachel Odhner
The Westchester County Long-Term Recovery Coalition (WCLRC) is a group of community organizations that came together in 2011 to facilitate coordination around the provision of long-term practical aid. The coalition had established bylaws and coordinated …
Client: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pediatrics
Team: Amanda Coron, Jennifer Johnston, Jessica Magnoli, Samantha Roy, Leila Shams
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Pediatric Endocrinology Division specializes in the treatment of all pediatric endocrine disorders including diabetes, disorders of the adrenal and ovarian glands, growth, puberty, bone, calcium, and vitamin D …
Client: William F. Ryan Community Health Network
Team: Aysa Abbyaeva, Amy Lepley-Flood, Christopher Monether, Everol Richards, Vickey Tsai
The William F. Ryan Community Health Network is a family of nonprofit, federallyqualified health centers that deliver care to diverse, underserved communities. With stricter documentation regulations and increased requirements to use electronic health …
Client: Legal Action Center
Team: Jane Dalugdugan, Grace Del Re, Rosemary Dodemaide, Jessie Hole
The Legal Action Center (LAC) is a nonprofit organization that advocates for individuals who have experienced discrimination due to addiction, HIV/AIDS, or a criminal record. Working within federal and state health reforms, the LAC has made recent efforts …
Client: Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Team: Tingyin Chee, Sonya Frankowski, Meghan Gerard, Sean McNerney
The Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC) is a communitybased nonprofit organization in Brooklyn that provides services and implements neighborhood development projects to improve the surrounding community. Obesity, a serious problem that …
Client: Governance Lab: Crowdsourcing
Team: Naomi Adland, Naomi Berlin, Dinorah Cantu, Marisse Del Olmo, Hallie Martin, Chandan Sharma
Governance Lab (GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by using technology to change the way we govern. The GovLab requested a Capstone team to undertake pilot projects in units across New York University to explore how crowdsourcing tools can help …
Client: New York University Department of Public Safety, Governance Lab
Team: Elizabeth Calmeyer, Sandra Kim, Theresa Langley, Hortensia Seldner Perez, Rachael Young
The Governance Lab (GovLab) is a research, training, and experimentation laboratory that focuses on improving peoples lives by addressing real world challenges through institutional redesign. Through the OPEN NYU project, the Capstone team worked with …
Client: New York University Bookstore, Governance Lab
Team: Carmen Jordan Asensi, Faith Brigham, Coby Kalter, Evon Kanu, Pablo Villarreal
Amidst the significant changes transforming the publishing industry, the NYU Bookstore faces the fundamental question of how to be financially sustainable in a new era of publishing. Through analyzing potential process and planning areas that could be …
Client: Montefiore Medical Center, The Center for Orthopaedic Specialties
Team: Ayesha Amin, Suiting Cao, Sarah Crump, Rebecca Hawke, Samik P. Patel, Jazmine Uruchima
The Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center services 100,000 patients annually, providing expertise in hip, knee, foot, ankle, shoulder, hand, and spinal care, as well as sports medicine and oncology. However, fluctuations in the …
Client: Cicatelli Associates, Inc.
Team: Alexandra Bernardi, Catherine Dangremond, Rasheeda Davis, Colleen McCullough
Cicatelli Associates, Inc. is a New Yorkbased nonprofit committed to improving health care and social services for vulnerable populations around the globe. As a national training center for the Office of Adolescent Health and Center for Disease Control, …
Client: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Sheepshead Bay
Team: Faria Hassan Billah, Leda Bloomfield, Henry Minskoff, Alicia Posner, Peter Silow
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Project aims to assist merchants in accessing resources to help grow their business, providing organizational capacity development to support the upstart and upkeep of local merchant groups. …
Client: New York University Student Health Center
Team: Eva Bak, Angela Dooley, Regina Hawkey, Winifred MacQuaye, Jose Marin
The NYU Student Health Center (NYUSHC) employed a Capstone team to assess the current health care delivery model and provide recommendations to implement a more student-centered service delivery system. The Capstone team reviewed the standards required …
Client: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
Team: Victoria Brown, Stephanie Ferket, Elizabeth Keating, Lea Xenakis, Abigail Zaylor
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) has been active in a long-running campaign addressing the unequal delivery of outpatient specialty care at Academic Medical Centers (AMC) across New York City. NYLPI provided the Capstone team with …
Client: New York University Future of Technology Enhanced Education Committee, Governance Lab
Team: Corey Blay, Jinny Jeong, Ashley Kolaya, Penny Wang, Damali Wynter
NYU’s Future of Technology Enhanced Education Committee (FTEE) is charged with guiding the University’s use of technology to support its academic mission and further its commitment to innovation in teaching, learning, and research. Working with FTEE, …
Client: Community for Education Foundation
Team: Susan Calvin, Amy DiBiase,LaShay Massey, Heather Wilson
Overcoming Obstacles Life Skills is a program of the Community for Education Foundation that develops students’ socioemotional skills to help them improve academic achievement, graduate from high school, and prepare for college and a career. Observing the …
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Team: Noah Bein, Christine Han, Bridget Mercier, Anna Swanby
Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing access to justice for children and families by providing legal information, community education, and guidance in the family court system. LIFT requested a …
Client: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
Team: Scilla Albanese, Emmett Mehan, Jaleesa Murrell, Yusuf Siddiquee, Patrick Yacco
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (BCC) drives economic development throughout the borough and provides unique resources and networking opportunities for its member businesses. The BCC observed that several firms were branding themselves as "Brooklyn" …
Client: VISIONS, Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Team: Lilit Abrahamyan, Yunzhu Chen, Huihuan He, Christina Lin
VISIONS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting people of all ages with vision loss and generating public awareness about capabilities and needs of the blind and visually impaired in the New York Metropolitan area. Facing the challenge of …
Client: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Team: Bianca Girault, Kelsey Sagawa, Megan Skillman
As multinational companies continue to expand their environmental agendas, questions arise concerning the effectiveness of these efforts and the firms' abilities to pass sustainability values onto their suppliers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
Client: New York City Department of Homeless Services
Team: Sarah Honey, Tinesha Ross, Madeline Serena
The New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) is committed to reducing homelessness through prevention efforts, providing short-term shelter, and ultimately connecting individuals with permanent housing. Chronic homelessness refers to …
Client: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control
Team: Suzanne Wulach, Si Xu, Huanci Yang, Boyang Zhao
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) administers funding for a federal grant program, Ryan White Part A. The program provides medical and support services to people living with HIV, functioning as a “payer of last resort” that …
Client: Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Team: Rodrigue Alexandre, Maureen Angeles Deboo, Thomas Dierkes, Courtney Jones
Residents’ demand for lower taxes and improved public services has compelled neighboring municipalities across New York State to investigate possibilities for partnerships in service provision. The Village of Hastings-on-Hudson was considering …
Client: State of New York Mortgage Agency. NYSHCR,
Team: Susana Cuevas, Shaopeng He, Lu Liu, Mehreen Saeed
State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA) provides low-interest mortgages to low- and moderate-income, firsttime homebuyers throughout New York State. SONYMA has a portfolio of nearly 33,470 loans totaling $2.9 billion. It is estimated that more than 724 …
Client: Move NY
Team: Jeffrey Mah, Molly Reckson, Abigail Youngblood
The Move NY campaign has developed a plan to relieve traffic congestion and improve roads, bridges, and public transit in New York City. The plan calls for an overhaul of the City’s current tolling regime by implementing congestion pricing, which would …
Client: State of New York Mortgage Agency, NYSHCR
Team: Sneha Goud, Jin Wu, Ziqi Xian
The State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA) is a public benefit corporation that provides affordable homeownership opportunities for low- to moderateincome first-time homebuyers in New York State. Seeking to increase its market share among qualified …
Client: AFS-USA
Team: Meghan Bernstein, Emily Gross, Helen Tsang, Charlie Van Scyoc, Gila Ward Menda
AFS-USA is a nonprofit organization working toward a more just and peaceful world by sending American high school students to live and study abroad, and receiving international students in homes and schools across the United States. AFS-USA relies heavily …
Client: College and Community Fellowship
Team: Luanna Azulay, Victoria Choong, Nana De-Graft Duncan, Lily Papakhian, Benjamin Taylor
Founded in 2000, College and Community Fellowship (CCF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating individual and structural barriers to higher education, economic security, long-term stability, and civic participation for women who have …
Client: New York City Fire Department
Team: Adam Ray Cross, Merav Fine, Jaqueline Matos, Morgan Monaco, Eunice Ok, Elizabeth Patterson
The New York City Fire Department’s (FDNY) mission is to protect the lives and property of New York City residents and visitors. Implicit within the department’s values of service, bravery, safety, honor, dedication, and preparedness, is a commitment to …
Client: Girl Be Heard
Team: Jennifer Diaz, Iris Dooling, Rachel Szala Grant, Elandria Jackson, Gretchen Upholt
Girl Be Heard (GBH) is a nonprofit theatre company bringing global issues affecting girls to the center stage by empowering young women to tell their stories. GBH requested a Capstone team to develop a performance measurement and management system in …
Client: East Harlem Tutorial Program
Team: Conor Bevan, Katherine Hartman, Braeden Mayrisch, Richard Tran, Julia Ward
The East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP) is a nonprofit organization that works with students in East Harlem to achieve academic and personal success and to become future community leaders. Due to a variety of factors in the education reform space, EHTP is …
Client: MFY Legal Services
Team: Elizabeth Benjamin, Chelsea Brownridge, Michelle Fitzgerald, Tahira Pratt, Erica Rippy
MFY Legal Services is one of New York City’s oldest legal aid organizations. Since 1963, they have provided free civil legal assistance on a wide range of issues and advocated to end root causes of inequality. In 2005, MFY launched the Consumer Rights …
Client: Lifetime Arts
Team: Catherine Guzman, Hanxiao Liu, Justine Schneider, Michelle Yue Zhao
Lifetime Arts is a nonprofit organization that promotes professional arts programs for older adults throughout the country. Given the organization’s success and rapid growth, Lifetime Arts employed a Capstone team to develop a strategic business plan in …
Client: Bridge Street Development Corporation
Team: Joseph George Manoleas, Habiba Musah, Yelena Pogorelsky, Qianli Zhang
The Bridge Street Development Corporation (BSDC) in Bedford-Stuyvesant promotes central Brooklyn’s economic and cultural vibrancy through its community engagement, senior services, economic development, homebuyer assistance, and real estate development …
Client: Footstepts
Team: Grace Cheong, Hadas "Dasi" Fruchter, Ashley Jackson, Eric Kaplan, Douglas Meredith
Footsteps is an organization that helps Ultra-Orthodox Jews who choose to leave their communities to integrate into broader society. They accomplish this goal by providing emotional, academic, and career development support. These include individual …
Client: Hazon
Team: Jonathan Cohen, Stephanie Feit, Danielle Levoit, John Salazar, Stephanie Spiegel
Hazon is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating healthier, more sustainable communities in the Jewish world and beyond. For more than a decade, Hazon has held a multi-day fundraising bike ride, considered to be the organization’s most powerful, …
Client: THE POINT Community Development Corporation
Team: Julissa Baez, Arshiya Kherani, Nelson Sotomayor
THE POINT is a community development organization focused on youth initiatives to revitalize the South Bronx. THE POINT relies heavily on grants, which fund more than 70 percent of its operations, and sought recommendations to reverse the ratio of grants …
Client: Palladia, Inc.
Team: Michelle Ceran, Yukihisa Manabe, Elizabeth Nevett, Hanna Woo
Palladia, Inc. is a nonprofit social services agency in New York City serving families and individuals struggling with abuse, homelessness, domestic violence, and trauma. In an increasingly competitive environment for government funding and social service …
Client: Center for Employment Opportunities
Team: Thomas Ansorge, Johanne Peña, Samantha Phillips, Lihong Yin
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is a nonprofit organization that provides immediate, comprehensive, and effective employment services for men and women returning from incarceration. Like many nonprofits, CEO manages a double bottom line: aiming …
Client: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
Team: Linna Fang, Anna Gray, Adriana Jacykewycz, Ashley Johnson, Chrissy Oliva
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden is a hidden gem in NYC; a place where history, architecture, art, theater, dance, music, and horticulture converge to provide dynamic experiences for all ages. The diversity of programming and attractions …
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Team: Jeff Meyer, Jesse Navarrette, Jessica Reid, Andrea Spender
New York City’s stop, question, and frisk (SQF) policy has been the topic of much debate and controversy, related to both the perception of race-based disparities in implementation, as well as the effectiveness of the policy in reducing crime. Using SQF …
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Team: Eunice Blehmadoo, Thomas Boman, Jeremy Cherson, Jennifer Reres
In recent decades, prescription drug abuse has risen dramatically in the United States due to changes in medical attitudes and practices. This shift has resulted not only in a wider distribution of opioids for the treatment of chronic and non-chronic …
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Team: Leslie Cook, Sharon Fuchs, Nick Klagge, Derek Rury, Vasundhara Vats
Tuition costs at colleges and universities have risen dramatically in recent years, due in part to state and federal higher education funding cuts. As a result, students are taking on heavy debt burdens to fund the high cost of a college degree, amounting …
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Team: Amanda Alampi, Jillian Anderson, Grisel Caicedo, Cosmo Fujiyama, Matt Lisiecki, Heidi McAnnally-Linz, Mercedes Pepper, Natalie Relich, Yady Ibarra Ruiz, Maria Sarta Herrera, Andreina Seijas, Fiona Wanqing He, Casey Weston, Ali Wimer
When people migrate across national borders, they often encounter challenges in having their skill recognized and valued in the labor markets they enter. Migrants with skills that place them in-between the categories of highly skilled knowledge workers …
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Team: Yana Kusayeva, Alejandro Ortiz, Tina Park
Over the past fifteen years, English Language Learners (ELLs) have comprised between 12 and 17 percent of the New York City student population. Since these students face different educational challenges than their native-born and English proficient …
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Team: Becca Cadoff, Elise Corwin, Maia Hyary, Andrew Leonard
The rise in obesity rates has increased interest around the “food environment,” or the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods in a community. While there is considerable focus on the influence of food environments, studies that attempt to link …
Client: Vision Long Island
Team: Patrick Cammack, Carson Qing, Jeremy Safran, Evan Tousey
Vision Long Island (VLI) is a nonprofit organization that works with Long Island communities to promote more livable, economically sustainable, and environmentally responsible growth. The organization has been working closely with local stakeholders in …