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Client: Local Government Unit of Libon, Albay Province, Philippines
Team: Sean Brooks, Vivek Jayaraman, Clayton Maring, Victoria Rodriguez
The Local Government Unit of Libon (LGU) recently incorporated an electronic medical records system to better serve its constituents. The Capstone team was requested to provide recommendations for using this system to guide public health policy at the …
Client: Counterpart International
Team: Alisa Cordesius, Elizabeth Kelly, Mary Robbins, Katie Travers
Counterpart International is a nonprofit organization focused on building sustainable communities around the globe. In 2008, Counterpart International began implementation of the Ethiopian Sustainable Tourism Alliance (ESTA), enhancing regional …
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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 …
Client: Amend
Team: Omoruyi Aigbe, Jordan M. Calhoun, Ozge Gunay, Michael M. Kuir
Amend is a US-based international nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the epidemic of road traffic injuries in Africa. In order to achieve its mission, Amend’s current services include primary school road safety education programs, advocacy …
Client: Foundation Rwanda
Team: Priscilla Addison, Eras Chong, Laura Roberts, Alyson Wise, Shalane Yuen
Founded in 2008, Foundation Rwanda (FR) is a nonprofit organization that supports children born from rape committed during the 1994 genocide. While FR originally focused on financing education, the organization currently seeks to expand its work by …
Client: New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Improving Discharge Efficiency
Team: Bryce Clark, Kristen Fanti, Joyce Philip, Mara Sproul
New York-Presbyterian (NYP) strives to ensure that patients are discharged in the safest and timeliest manner possible. When a hospital fails to effectively coordinate discharges, negative outcomes can occur including increases in the length of stay …
Client: World Bank and National Council for Education Development
Team: Marisa Casellas, Kathryn Charlie Frisbie, Johanna Paine
CONAFE, a federal institution created in 1971, seeks to generate greater educational access and increase retention/achievements in marginalized localities in Mexico. In order to advance the cooperative federalism approach to public service delivery, …
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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 …
Client: Planned Parenthood Global
Team: Brian Lutz, Maha Mahmoud, Stacey O’Sullivan, Andrée Tzall, Dominique Witter
Since the early 1990s, Planned Parenthood Global (PP Global) has developed the Youth Peer Provider (YPP) model to train young people to provide contraceptives as well as sexual and reproductive health information to their peers. PP Global requested the …
Client: World Bank - East Asia and Pacific
Team: Emily Olson, Christina Seybolt
The Capstone team was engaged to identify best practice examples in East and South Asia, and develop in-depth case studies to address metropolitan and regional strategic planning in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. The team reviewed academic and …
Client: World Connect
Team: Peter Freeman, Erin McInerney, Laine Rolong, Taeko Yamamoto
World Connect is a nonprofit that gives micro-grants to empower grassroots community organizations to improve health, environment, and employment opportunities for women and youth. World Connect is at a critical juncture in its development, seeking funds …
Client: Global Goods Partners
Team: Yaz Abellard, Leela Bhashyam, Megan Johnston, Gabriella Lewin, Daphne Philip
Global Goods Partners (GGP) is a nonprofit organization and certified fair trade retailer whose mission is to improve the social and economic well-being of women artisans around the world. Working with 30 community-based organizations in 18 countries, GGP …
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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 …
Client: United Nations Development Programme: HIV, Health and Development Practice
Team: Jade Camp, Aniqa Islam, Patricia Szafranski, Michele Tall, Zach Worthen
In 2008, the World Health Organization estimated that 63% of global deaths were due to Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), mainly cancers, chronic respiratory or cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. In response, the United Nations General Assembly Special …
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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: Scholars at Risk Network
Team: Katherine Bleich, Claudia Espinosa, Armand Gunawan, Elly Merlis
Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of institutions and individuals working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. Founded in 2001, SAR is now at an inflection point in both its scale and services. …
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 …
Client: New York City Department of Transportation
Team: Mary Berberian, Alejandra Rangel Smith, Daniel Suraci, Chris Whong
New York City Department of Transportation’s (NYCDOT) Office of Freight Mobility works to improve the efficiency and sustainability of freight movement throughout the City. A Capstone team was engaged to identify how consolidation centers can benefit the …
Client: Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa
Team: James Dreiling, Mmakgantsi Mafojane, Brett Mons
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) are a relatively new means of service delivery in Uganda and have mostly occurred in the form of large, national-level projects. Recently, local governments have explored the potential of partnerships in order to provide …
Client: South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation
Team: Alexandra Derian, Erik Howard George, Alan Lightfeldt, Sumaila Palla, Abigail Pick
The South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SoBRO) is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the South Bronx through social and economic revitalization strategies targeted at low-income communities. In an effort to redevelop 48-acres …
Client: Made in Lower East Side
Team: Ana M. Caso, Thea Garon, Hsiang-Sheng Huang, Krzysztof Sadlej, Amy Stokes
Made in Lower East Side (miLES) is an emerging social enterprise that seeks to connect New York City creatives to short-term rentals in the Lower East Side (LES) neighborhood of Manhattan. Taking advantage of the vast amount of empty storefront space in …
Client: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Team: Juan Nicolas Galarza, Ronnie Hutchinson, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Prachee Mishra
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a leading resource for key issues concerning the use, regulation, and taxation of land. The Institute engaged the Capstone team to build on a previously conducted overview assessment of metropolitan governance, …
Client: McCormack Baron Salazar
Team: Tony Berkel, Peter Donohue, Ben Hagen, Anish Patel, Ryan White
The Capstone team worked with McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS), a leading national developer of low- and mixed-income housing, to ascertain the viability of securing funding from the EB-5 immigrant investor program to urban residential development. The EB-5 …
Client: Child Mind Institute
Team: Anne Gilberg, Tal Kapulnik, Daiva Kazdaileviciene, Kevin Sajdak
Child Mind Institute (CMI), an organization dedicated to finding effective treatments for childhood psychiatric and learning disorders, requested a Capstone team to assist in the creation of a Parent Excellence Program (PEP). The team focused on …
Client: Washington, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education
Team: Chavon Edwards, Brian Footer, Chris Glorioso, Kristin Maidt, Milo Sybrant
The Division of Special Education (DSE) in Washington, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent (OSSE) oversees special education within the D.C. Public Schools and Public Charter Schools. In 2011, D.C. adopted the Funding for Public Schools and Public …
Client: Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers
Team: Elizabeth Fisher, Qinxin Huang, Cyril Morel, Lindsey Rhoten, Jessenia Rios
Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers (CBSBB) is a nonprofit organization that provides mentoring services to New York City’s children regardless of religious affiliation. The unique program focuses on strengthening each child’s entire family by providing …
Client: NYU-HHC Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Team: Alexander Habib, Karah Newton, Clara Park, Molly Beth Somberg
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) was created as a joint five-year collaboration between New York University (NYU) and the Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) to “provide an integrated home for the advancement of collaborative …
Client: United Cities and Local Governments
Team: Daniel Boyer, Maria del Carmen Garcia Maldonado, Justin Kreamer, Jonathan Wang
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is an international organization that represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage. The Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD) was launched by UCLG in …
Client: Enterprise Community Partners
Team: Sarah Gastelum, Joshua Langham, Katie Lyon, Dani Rosen
Enterprise Community Partners is a national nonprofit organization that provides expertise and financing for affordable housing development for low and moderate income families. Enterprise recently developed the Green Communities Criteria, a points-based …
Client: New York Civil Liberties Union
Team: Vitaly Chibisov, Andrew Felder, Lana Chung Lim, Alexandra Meis, Katie Schliessman
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the nation's leading defenders of civil liberties and civil rights. The NYCLU requested a Capstone team to help analyze and evaluate the New York State’s new model for the delivery of Medicaid services …
Client: FEGS
Team: Aditi Anand, Goldie Aranov, Chi Kei Lee, Rajit Nair, Jessica Wilson, Anna Yick
Founded in 1934, FEGS is one of the largest and most diverse nonprofit health and human services organizations in the US. FEGS Behavioral Health Division, responsible for tracking and submitting financial and statistical information to outside funding …
Client: Housing Works Thrift Shops
Team: Valerie Boileau, Molly Goodwin, Rachel Hodes, Tiffany Tribbitt
Housing Works, a nonprofit dedicated to helping those affected by HIV/AIDS, operates Thrift Shops around the New York City area. Housing Works requested the Capstone team to analyze existing sales, staffing, and customer survey data in order to inform its …
Client: Palladia
Team: Daniel Bunger, Deirdre Byrne, Jamie Herskovits, Ebony Wiresinger, Hui Zhang
The Capstone team worked with Palladia to identify their unique value proposition as they negotiate business agreements with the major behavioral healthcare insurance companies covering Medicaid Managed Care enrollees in Harlem and the South Bronx. …
Client: Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
Team: Xiaolei Guo, Brian Levinson, Jiashuang Mu, Yen Pham
The Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project (MARP) faces budgeting maintenance and designing programming challenges for their soon-to-be-constructed plaza at Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Business Improvement District (BID). The Capstone team was engaged to draft a …
Client: National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development
Team: Olajumoke Ayandele, Matthew Tschabold, Nary Ung
The proposed Sub-national Investment Facility (SNIF) is a project-based financing facility to be made available to sub-national administrations at the provincial, district, and commune levels to support sustainable investments in local infrastructure and …
Client: William F. Ryan Community Health Center
Team: Natalie Barragan, Errol Pierre, Chetan Prabhudesai, Lesley Slade, Lisa Tran
The William F. Ryan Community Health Center (Ryan Center) is a Federally Qualified Health Center providing care to low-income and underserved patients throughout Manhattan. The Ryan Center recently added a portal for patients to access health records …
Client: United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Team: Alexandra Cohen, Jessica Goldman, Polina Miklush, Christopher Nolan, and Gunjan Srivastava
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, expressed interest in understanding the controversy among physician opinion and perception regarding the recently passed Patient …
Client: Rockaway Waterfront Alliance
Team: Alda Chan, Sa Liu, Jonathan McGrath, Rossana Tudo, Kathleen Walczak
The Rockaway Waterfront Alliance (RWA) partners with local residents and youth to revitalize and protect the Rockaway waterfront. The Capstone team worked with RWA to develop a comprehensive plan for the area between Beach 32nd Street and Beach 54th …
Client: Maimonides Medical Center
Team: Michael Hsieh, Cheryl Jordan, Megan Kelly, Amanda Magli, Lucia Sarita
Maimonides Medical Center is one of the largest teaching hospitals in the US, ranked in the top five percent nationwide for clinical performance. The employees of the Public Communication Department are typically the first point of contact for patients …
Client: Transitional Services for New York
Team: Gregory Bennett, David Brody, Alice Ka Man Cheng, Akriti Mehta, Maureen Namawejje
The Capstone team worked with leadership and staff of Transitional Services for New York (TSINY), a nonprofit providing community based services to individuals with mental disabilities, to conduct a complete overview of the organization’s fiscal …
Client: Bronx Community Health Network: Strategic Plan
Team: Arooba Alam, Noah Isaacs, Amy A. Lee, Rachel Pardoe, Todd Pinkus
The Bronx Community Health Network (BCHN) is a federally qualified health center that sponsors fifteen community and school-based health centers. Since BCHN’s last strategic planning effort in 2007, the organization expanded their network of centers and …
Client: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Team: Sekou M. Sheriff, Mariah Yan Zhao
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s least developed countries, supports the development of finance institutions for poor households and small business, as well as local government finance …
Client: Bronx Community Health Network: ER Project
Team: Matthew Beyrouty, Michelle Gersten, Kalese House, Courtney McBride, Shaina Siegel
The Bronx Community Health Network (BCHN) is a nonprofit organization and federally qualified health center that sponsors fifteen community and school-based health centers in the Bronx. The health centers are owned and operated by Montefiore Medical …
Client: NYCRx
Team: Almeta Brown, Spencer Carrucciu, Helee Desai, Justin Etinger, Lauren Hedinger
The nonprofit organization NYCRx assists entities that are eligible for the 340B Federal Discount Drug Program in implementing and managing the 340B programs in New York. As part of recent NY Medicaid redesign, NY State has allowed 340B entities to …
Client: Institute for Rational Urban Mobility
Team: Scott Hobbs, Hang Huynh, Gabriel Kleinfeld, Daniel Simoes
The Institute for Rational Urban Mobility (IRUM) was seeking to reactivate four-miles of railroad track running through central Queens. The plan called for a track reactivation design solution and the creation of a direct connection from the Midtown …
Client: New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations
Team: Mac Cloyes, Yanjia Jiao, Lucas Koehler, Brian Math, Jiaying Yu
The New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations aims to enhance the cost effectiveness of City agencies, and publicly reports City agency performance data in the Mayor’s Management Report. The Capstone team analyzed the current use of agency unit cost …
Client: Mercy Home for Children
Team: Scott Donohue, Jennifer Karr, Candy Magana, Katie Magoon
The Capstone team worked with Mercy Home for Children, a Brooklyn nonprofit serving the developmentally disabled, to enhance their ability to sustain current and obtain new program funding sources. The team first conducted individual interviews with …
Client: New York City Human Resources Administration
Team: Amira El-Ghobashy, Michael Escosia, Myra Soto
Serving over three million New York City residents, the Human Resources Administration (HRA) is the largest social services department in the nation. Investigations, Revenue & Enforcement Administration (IREA) is the investigative arm of HRA, uncovering …
Client: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Team: Elizabeth Buck, Tanja Hamilton, Vaughn Mayers, Noah Sheroff, and Tina Spaic
The Capstone team partnered with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, to identify areas where open data systems and collaborative arrangements via technology can add public value to the regulatory job of government …
Client: Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
Team: Catherine Ang, Jessica Mowles, Malini Trivedi, Cora Weissbourd, Allison Wood
Sauti Yetu (SY) is a community-based nonprofit in the South Bronx. Their Girls Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (GELI) aims to empower African immigrant girls through academic tutoring, facilitated peer connections, and holistic support. The Capstone …