Capstone Projects
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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: Citizens Union
Team: Madeline Labadie, Michael Leone, Daniel Lipsky-Karasz, Moneeza Maredia, Patrick McClellan
Despite their increasing prevalence in funding and guiding public policies, there has never been an attempt to thoroughly document the scope and universe of public-private partnerships in New York City. Citizens Union, a government watchdog group founded …
Client: Literacy Assistance Center
Team: Michelle Bensignor, Annabelle Eliashiv, Nicole Pritchard, Caroline Ross
The Literacy Assistance Center (LAC) is a New York City-based nonprofit organization that increases opportunities for adults with low literacy skills and limited English language proficiencies by offering professional development training and technical …
Client: World Bank - Procurement
Team: Katherine Frew, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Rika Gorn, Kevin Hansen, Daniel Saat, Alexandra Skayne
Billions of dollars are expended each year through the procurement process by which governments and multi-national lending institutions acquire the goods and services needed to complete development projects. One of the most crucial components affecting …
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Agora Partnerships
Team: Christyne Angulo, David Kent, Kelli Payne, Juanjuan (Tina) Wang
Agora Partnerships is a nonprofit organization that works to accelerate the success of early-stage entrepreneurs in Latin America who are committed to solving social and environmental challenges. Agora’s main programming is an Impact Accelerator designed …
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: Developing a Human Resources Tool
Team: Lani Hart, Joy Lindsay, Jane Schuldiner, Kirsten Singleton, Kimberly Tortora
LatinoJustice PRLDEF (LJP) is a national civil rights organization, founded in 1972, that focuses on defending the civil and human rights of Latino communities. The organization was seeking a formal method to objectively capture the experiences and …
Client: Bronx Council on the Arts
Team: Rachel Cochran, Jackie Gerard, Lisa Maher, Julie Teague, Jacquelyn Ward
Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage and increase public awareness and participation in the arts, and to nurture the development of artists and cultural organizations. With a goal of raising the …
Client: Career Gear
Team: Hedieh Fakhriyazdi, Cynthia Fredericks, Molly Heffernan, Bin Hong Plume, Gabrielle Raymond
Career Gear is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged men obtain and maintain jobs by providing them with business-appropriate clothing, professional development counseling, and follow-up support to achieve self-sufficiency. At a …
Client: Footsteps
Team: Ari Berkowicz, Elizabeth Hoagland, Arlene Peralta, Brandi Womack
Footsteps is an organization dedicated to providing services to those seeking to enter or explore a world beyond the ultra-Orthodox religious environment. Footsteps was seeking a Capstone team to assess the feasibility, provide recommendations, and …
Client: Jewish Communal Fund
Team: Rachel Ackoff, Eliza Danielson, Dunyang Li, Yasaman Pishvazadeh, Rebecca Schumer
The Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), a publicly supported foundation, promotes charitable giving to sectarian and non-sectarian organizations through donor advised funds. JCF engaged a Capstone team to determine which factors influence a donor to invest …
Client: Opening Act
Team: Miriam Altman, Ben Espinosa, Danielle Mindess, Diana Norton, Elizabeth Sewell
Opening Act is a free, after-school theater program operating in 33 underserved New York City public high schools. Opening Act requested assistance from a Capstone team to refine and implement a newly developed performance measurement system. After …
Client: Sunnyside Community Services
Team: Xu Zhang, Ilana Levinson, Conor Brady, Samantha Sims, Danica Murphy
Sunnyside Community Services (SCS) is a nonprofit organization located in Western Queens that provides a continuum of services to members of all ages in its local community and the broader NYC metro area. SCS requested a Capstone team to evaluate the …
Client: Break Away: The Alternative Break Connection
Team: Julie A. Cornell, Karle Scroggins, Morgan Soloski, Aimee Weiss, Sara Williams
Break Away, a nonprofit organization, supports the development of quality alternative break programs by providing training and information to over 170 universities and 500 nonprofit organizations and by promoting the Active Citizens movement. The …
Client: Mississippi Center For Justice
Team: Charla Duncan, Emily Tanner-McLean, Michael Reed, Adam J. Shepherd, Zili Fang
The Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) is an organization that works toward racial and economic equity through legal services, policy advocacy, and education. Founded in 2003, MCJ seeks solutions that address social justice in disaster recovery, …
Client: Bridge Street Development Corporation
Team: Polly Mygatt, Matthew Guidarelli, Lindsay Nason, Lauren Reynolds, Ellen McKay
Quincy Senior Residence, founded in 2006 by Bridge Street Development Corporation (BSDC), provides affordable independent living apartments to low-income seniors in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Quincy offers a range of need-based, elective programs and …
Client: Cricket Island Foundation & Social Justice Philanthropy Collaborative
Team: Shangshang Chen, Didi Ilunga, Kaity Ng, Kelly Richardson, Amita Swadhin
Concerned that the full impact of the 2008 financial crisis has not yet been felt in the field of social justice philanthropy, Cricket Island Foundation (CIF), a New Yorkbased foundation supporting youthled social change, partnered with the Social …
Client: JPMorgan Chase Global Philanthropy Foundation
Team: "Marina Barskaya, David Gottesman, Rachel Herman, Larissa Johnson, Tom McIntyre, Kathleen Nugent"
"The JPMorgan Chase Foundation utilized a Capstone team in analyzing and implementing its Community Renaissance Strategy, a new grantmaking model addressing issues and developing solutions in Community Development, Education, and Arts and Culture across …
Client: New YorkPresbyterian Hospital – Interdisciplinary Communication
Team: Mary Anne Badillo, Elizabeth Farley, Susan Lantz, Diahann RobertsSmith, Glodean Yorrick
Effective interdisciplinary communication is associated with reduced length of stay, improved patient safety, and increased employee satisfaction. However, communication breakdowns are common in complex hospital settings and multiple communication …
Client: The New York Community Trust
Team: Laura Donnelly, Dawn Miller-Scott, Susanna Sussman
The New York Community Trust is a public, not-for-profit organization that administers over 1,500 individual, family or business charitable funds totaling almost $2 billion in assets. The Capstone team was tasked with developing specific recommendations …
Client: United Way of New York City and The Office of New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services
Team: Jessica Sultzer, Kristin Cahill, Kate Heckel, Daniel Stoltzfus
Increased service demand along with retrenchment by governments and donors make it critical that the City and nonprofits work together. The NYC United Way and the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, seeking to strengthen the nonprofit sector, …
Client: Citizens Union Foundation
Team: Ida Cheng, Jenifer Clapp, Arianne Garza, Liz Oakley, Gregory Wong
The Citizens Union Foundation (CUF) is a nonprofit research, education and advocacy organization that monitors the deliberations and actions of government, conducts research, and analyzes the impact of proposed public policy and legislation at the city …
Client: Health and Gentrification
Team: Gopal Mahalingam Narsimhamurthy, Amy Lynn Ganz, Jennifer T Dolatshahi, Sih-Ting Cai, Maxwell Austensen
Health, socioeconomic status, and neighborhood characteristics have well-documented associations. Relatedly, limited healthcare access-typically thought of as a rural issue that can exacerbate health conditions and lead to poorer outcomes-also exists in …
Client: World Bank - Independent Evaluation Group
Team: Karine Charlemagne, Andrew Spencer, Yana Tukvachinskaya, Bitsat Yohannes-Kassahun
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank evaluates the development effectiveness of the Bank. Climate change and disaster risk pose significant threats to development across the globe. The Capstone team created a learning product on …
Client: Fortune Society
Team: Elizabeth Braley, Thurston Powers, Olivia Schneider, Michael Robert Rose
The Fortune Society has been a leader in rehabilitating incarcerated individuals and reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals into society. The Fortune Society facilitates reintegration by providing housing, including emergency housing for homeless …
Client: The Hunger Project
Team: Khadija Saba Benoit, Jessica Pham, Camilla Rose Somers, Fan Zhang
The Hunger Project (THP) aims to end hunger and poverty by pioneering and advocating for sustainable, grassroots, and women-centered strategies in developing countries across the globe. There are nearly 400,000 THP volunteers-or “animators”-worldwide, and …
Client: United Nations Population Fund
Team: Rediet Teshome Demissie, Rachel E Gellert, Ani Minasyan, Hanmo Yang
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) aims to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. To accomplish this, UNFPA works to ensure that all individuals, especially women …
Client: Town of Rye, New York
Team: Chelsea Rochelle Brandon, Barbara Ioannidis, Colin Storey Murphy, Jenny Levine O'Connell
Rye Town Park is a 62-acre public park and beach in Rye City, New York, approximately 35 miles northeast of New York City. In recent years, the Rye Town Park Commission has struggled to develop policies to prevent degradation of the park while maximizing …
Client: Davita Kidney Care
Team: Sarah E Cunningham, Janice Nicole MacFarlane, Linda E Schillaci, Vivian Hsing-Chun Wang
DaVita Kidney Care, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., provides dialysis services to patients with chronic kidney failure and end-stage renal disease throughout the United States and abroad. DaVita is the largest kidney dialysis provider chain …
Client: Alliance for Positive Change
Team: Sarah Ann Sebton , Rebecca Leah Fleischman , Tammy Marie Seney , Jayson Valcik
The Alliance for Positive Change (Alliance) helps New Yorkers make promising transitions toward improved health, housing, recovery, and self-sufficiency. Alliance offers a diverse range of individualized professional services. The organization enlisted a …
Client: Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding
Team: Jennica Bramble, Erin Connell, Abby Kulawitz, Corey Rittvo
Established in 2009, Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding (OBCP) focuses on using outdoor experiential learning as a powerful approach to challenge and inspire leaders in divided societies to build peace. OBCP engaged a Capstone team in developing …
Client: Inter-American Development Bank
Team: Mick Arieta, Carlos Calvo, Maria Salazar,
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is a significant source of financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. As part of its efforts to address the urban infrastructure gap in the area, IDB engaged …
Client: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Team: Consuelo Castaneda, Jodie Curren, Feruza Esanova, Cosme Taipe,
Nurses face a multitude of challenges in today's high-acuity, high-stress healthcare environment, including burnout, compassion fatigue, and bullying. An enhanced capacity for resiliency is essential for nurses to be able to maintain empathy and purpose …
Client: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Team: Claire Andoy, Brittany Bennett, Windell Cadelina, Junga Park,
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated academic healthcare delivery systems dedicated to providing the highest quality and most compassionate care and service to patients. NYP recently acquired five …
Client: Composite Household Finance in China
Team: Seul Lee, Semoy P Legall, Zong Yang Li, Ellen M Studer, Yuanyuan Yang
Considering China's rapid development over the last thirty years, new and distinct financial groups have emerged among China's 1.4 billion residents. A Capstone team explored the Composite Financial Status (CFS)-a measure of overall financial health-of …
Client: Pro Mujer
Team: Anna Lily Feingold, Sophie Jennifer Alexandra Pauze, Tatjana Richardson
Pro Mujer supports low-income women in five Latin American countries by providing access to financial services, preventive health services, and education and business training. The organization aims to address the detrimental and pervasive effects of …
Client: The Arthur Project
Team: Amitai Fraiman, Alaina Long, Esthela Lopez, Ariel Shapiro, Marina Zaiats
The Arthur Project (TAP) builds economic and social mobility for at-risk youth through full-time mentorship, project-based civic engagement, and critical life skills development. TAP is a unique program that hires and equips full-time paid mentors to work …
Client: Footsteps
Team: Shifra Goldenberg, Stephanie Herzog, Emma Hutchinson, James Kostenblatt, Linda Le
Footsteps is the only organization in North America focused on supporting individuals from ultra-Orthodox Jewish backgrounds attempting to move beyond their insular communities. For Footsteps members who may be struggling to find employment, addressing …
Client: Start Small Think Big
Team: Morris Borenstein, Mark Griffith, Imtiaz Hossain, James Hui, Clare Schirrmeister
Start Small Think Big (SSTB) is a legal and financial technical assistance provider for micro-businesses in disadvantaged New York City neighborhoods. SSTB's mission is to help low- to moderate-income individuals build and sustain thriving businesses to …
Client: Urban Strategies Council
Team: Prem Calvin Prashad, Jennifer Rignack, Shiqing Cui, Yaqi Huang, Sijia Cheng
The Urban Strategies Council (USC) is an anti-poverty organization based in Oakland, California that works to transform low-income neighborhoods into vibrant, healthy communities. In response to disparate educational outcomes among students, California …
Client: The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
Team: Cecilia Chapiro , Courtney Biederbeck (Averill), Lisa Gellner, Rima Raouda, Sam Greenberg
The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (the Federation) is an association of credit unions that promotes financial inclusion. The Federation provides support and invests in community development credit unions, which specialize in …
Client: Eagle Academy Foundation
Team: Xingying Tan, Ruoning Yang, Yuanlin Qi, Kailun Yang, Maxwell Morgan
The Eagle Academy Foundation (EAF) is a Bronx-based organization that shapes the lives of thousands of at-risk youth through its all-boys public school network in New York City and New Jersey. EAF's approach-designed specifically for young inner-city men …
Client: World Bank
Team: Talal Alyan, Cybele Safadi, Hannah Minkoff, Dejian Zeng
The World Bank, comprised of 189 member countries, aims to end extreme poverty and foster income growth of the lowest earning 40 percent of the population of every country. Currently, there are 28 mega-cities-cities with 10 million inhabitants or more- …
Client: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Team: Valentina Lucaj, Lauren Raggio, Jessica Romero, Christel Vasquez,
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is one of the leading healthcare institutions in the country. As there is ever-growing regulatory scrutiny on avoidable hospital readmissions and accompanying financial penalties, it is imperative that healthcare …