Capstone Projects
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Client: Nest
Team: Chelsea Garbell, Natalie Giaccio, Camille Mori, Awet Goitom Woldegebriel
Nest is a nonprofit organization that works with cross-sector collaborators to bring radical transparency, data-driven development, and fair market access to the informal economy of artisan handicrafts. Nest’s new Ethical Compliance certification works to …
Client: United Nations Capital Development Fund
Team: Chloe Decazes, Haven Miller, Javiera Rubio
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) supports local development and government reform through finance and governance programs, and assists in the decentralization of developing countries. UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock …
Client: World Bank - Nairobi Metropolitan Services Improvement Project
Team: Michelle Chen, Laura Davis, Anni Shelton
The Nairobi Metropolitan Services Improvement Project (NaMSIP) for Kenya was financed by the World Bank to strengthen urban services and infrastructure in the Nairobi metropolitan region, including the commuter rail system. Recent NaMSIP studies indicate …
Client: Fundación Ernesto Sabato
Team: Lian Kariuki, Anthi Markatos, Tori Morris
Fundación Ernesto Sabato has worked in Argentina since 2002 in the fields of culture, education, and social development. One of the Fundación’s most recent projects focused on the issue of substance abuse and its effects on women in the villas of Buenos …
Client: Project Alianza
Team: Chelsea Boatey, Alyson Marks, Qingyi Wang
Project Alianza is an international nonprofit whose mission is to break the cycle of poverty in rural coffee communities by bringing educational resources to children living and working on coffee farms. Approximately 2.6 million school-aged children in …
Client: StationMD
Team: Amanda Arnone, Ada Rubin, Sara Snowden, Ziyi Zhuo
StationMD is an innovative telemedicine startup founded by board-certified emergency medicine physicians. StationMD physicians seek to reduce avoidable hospital utilization in vulnerable populations by conducting examinations in patients’ homes or …
Client: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Team: Bohree Kim, Adrian Giovanni Medina, Seth Ramjit Narine, Sarah Nusbaum, Sarah Torosyan
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) aims to protect and promote the health of all NYC residents. DOHMH supports Kings County Hospital, an NYC public hospital, in delivering a nationally-recognized hospital-based violence …
Client: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Team: Rituparna Ganguly, Habibatou Kesselly, Renee McKain, Rosi Setyo Nugroho
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) aims to protect and promote the health of all NYC residents. Addressing health inequities and achieving racial justice is the foundation of DOHMH’s public health approach. The Bureau of …
Client: NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital
Team: Austin Tuffour Frempong, Aashna Jain, Alyssa Potolsky, Maria Tarallo, Wei Zeng
NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital (NYU LOH) has a distinguished tradition of medical innovation and is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in patient care, education, and research. With recent changes to state and federal laws governing …
Client: Institute for Community Living
Team: Xiaoxi Chelsea Gu, Alexander Morse, Brendan Proper, Alexandra Selitsky, Joyce Yan
The Institute for Community Living (ICL) is a New York-based nonprofit human services agency offering residential assistance, clinical treatment, and family support to people with severe disabilities and in situational crises. As part of the Empire State …
Client: The New York Academy of Medicine
Team: Sanah Choudhary, Clara Fadina, Micheal Hamilton, Ashley Johnson, Cellipha Joseph, Mark Negron
Established in 1847, the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying and addressing socioeconomic barriers to healthy lifestyles and health equity. Comprised of over 2,000 healthcare experts, NYAM’s …
Client: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Team: Abe Ralph Emile, Martin Eric Hinds, Rachel Moldauer, Johana Peña, Selina Shen
The Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (RFK CERC) is an Albert Einstein College of Medicine-operated service program that provides health resources for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities …
Client: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Team: Thomas Agresta, Jocelyn Howard, Felicia Owusu, Indira Singh, Julia Zhu
The Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (RFK CERC) is an Albert Einstein College of Medicine-operated clinical program that provides comprehensive care to children and adults with developmental disabilities. RFK CERC engaged a …
Client: Citi Ventures
Team: Eliza French, Nipho Msibi, Tyler Stone, Cecilia Vales
Citi Ventures is the innovation and venture capital team of Citigroup, a multinational investment banking and financial services corporation. Their clients include small business owners and entrepreneurs across the US, particularly women and minorities, …
Client: Citi Ventures
Team: Natalie Epelman, Adam Gleicher, Ikechi Nwankwo, Spencer Schloss
Citi Ventures is the innovation and venture capital team of Citigroup, a multinational investment banking and financial services corporation. Citi Ventures employs a discovery mindset to bring forth new ideas by exploring the startup landscape and …
Client: City of Hoboken
Team: Alexandra Black, Annie Gurvis, Charlotte Hough, Stephanie Silkowski
Hoboken, New Jersey is a compact city of 55,000 people located directly across the Hudson River from NYC. The City of Hoboken’s municipal leadership enlisted a Capstone team to support the identification and incorporation of cutting-edge smart city …
Client: Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law
Team: acqueline Cafasso, Hasanthi Piyasena, Iziah Thompson
The Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan think tank working to deliver economic and legal analysis in support of optimal policy implementation across many environmental issues. Policies and regulatory actions often include …
Client: Arbor Brothers
Team: Preston Dula, José A. Lora, Genevieve McCabe
Arbor Brothers is a grantmaking organization that provides financial support and consulting services to organizations in their early stages of implementation. Arbor Brothers enlisted a Capstone team to research the existence of economies of scale in the …
Client: Her Justice
Team: Mili Chapado, Jennifer Kaizer, Lorellee Kampschnieder
Her Justice is a nonprofit organization that provides free legal services to low-income women in NYC by recruiting and mentoring volunteer lawyers in family, divorce, and immigration law cases. Child support cases are among the most common in NYC Family …
Client: New York City Department of Consumer Affairs
Team: Mona Saghri, Amanda Trepel, Crystal Tsoi
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs’ Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) is a local government initiative aimed at helping low-income individuals build assets and maximize their financial resources. Through OFE’s NYC Free Tax Prep program, …
Client: New York City Human Resources Administration’s Office of Child Support Services
Team: Marina Herrmann, Waheera H. Mardah, Yesenia Gomez Martinez, Andrea Minor
The New York City Human Resources Administration’s Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) lifts tens of thousands of NYC children out of poverty every year. OCSS serves parents and guardians regardless of their income or immigration status. OCSS has …
Client: Violence Intervention Program
Team: Brittany Bell, Madeleine Freidson, Catherine Garcia
Violence Intervention Program (VIP) is a community-based nonprofit organization that helps to lead and empower Latinx survivors of domestic violence to safety by providing culturally-competent services, raising community awareness, and engaging in …
Client: Opening Act
Team: Aurora-Marie Bamba Terrazas, Emily Dorsey, Daphne Fequiere
Opening Act provides innovative, high-quality, and free theater programming to students at under-resourced NYC high schools, giving them opportunities to develop leadership, community, and commitment. In addition to its after-school programming in …
Client: New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Service
Team: David Hezghia, Tracy Jo Ingram, Alexius Marcano, Nelson Sosa
The New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) is the largest government procurement body in the US, responsible for purchasing over $1.5 billion in goods annually for the City of New York. In addition to supplying NYC’s needs for …
Client: NEO Philanthropy
Team: Margarita Calbitaza, Suzanne Chipkin, Rina Cohen, Ariah Dow
NEO Philanthropy (NEO) is a philanthropic intermediary committed to building strong social justice movements. NEO enlisted a Capstone team to conduct an industry scan of peer philanthropic intermediaries working to bridge the gap between funders and …
Client: City-As-School High School
Team: Veronica Manning, Rebecca Phanor, Nikki Singh, Alyssa Tischler, Mariana Tvauri
City-As-School High School (CAS) is an alternative high school built on the idea that all children learn differently—some by seeing, some by hearing, others by doing. CAS allows students the freedom to create their own class schedules and select their …
Client: Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York
Team: Rachel Hamalainen, Maren Morsch, Bryan Perlmutter, Michael Perry, Jason Spear
Founded in 1944, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan child advocacy organization known for strong analytic work, community engagement, and fact-based advocacy. One of the organization’s signature programs, …
Client: Church of the Holy Apostles
Team: Christian Hoffman, Jessica E. Jackson, Rachel Lucine
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen (HASK), a nonprofit organization founded by The Church of the Holy Apostles, has become the largest emergency feeding program in New York State since its founding in 1982. HASK enlisted a Capstone team to recommend strategies …
Client: The Arthur Project
Team: Matthew Kastellec, Jamila Khan, Heather Krol, Saman Marji, Rob Mesika
The Arthur Project seeks to end generational poverty through relationship-based learning. It transforms traditional mentoring by using professional mentors to work intensively with at-risk youth through the duration of middle school. Through its …
Client: American Institute of Architects
Team: Michele Humbert, Julissa Soriano, Lauren Wessler, Ben Wurtzel
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a membership organization for licensed architects with over 90,000 members and 200 global chapters. The AIA advocates for the value of architecture and provides professional development resources to its …
Client: Dancewave
Team: Sofia Chrysikopoulou, Tianyi Jiang, Shihui Liu, Zheng Wang, Yijie Yin
Dancewave is a small nonprofit organization that provides dance education and studio rental in Brooklyn with the aim of promoting gender equality and community development. Dancewave recently launched its first capital project to create a new arts and …
Client: Nazareth Housing
Team: Lisa Hicks, Jake Neuthaler, Drishti Patel, Jon Serbin, Xingzhi Wang
Nazareth Housing is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting housing stability, helping families out of poverty, and preventing homelessness in the communities it serves. Nazareth manages several programs, including supportive housing, emergency …
Client: Planned Parenthood of New York City
Team: Jamie Cavallo, Asma Imam, Anthia Ma, Wei Sun, Hongye Wu
Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to New Yorkers. The Capstone team created an earned income model for PPNYC’s Education and Training Department. Each year, the department …
Client: New York City Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget
Team: Qiuyi Li, Nick Merckling, Meng Wang, Jiayi Xie, Yuzhe Xie
The New York City Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is NYC’s chief financial agency. The OMB’s Citywide Savings Unit is responsible for implementing the Citywide Savings Program, which improves the efficiency of city services. Currently, more …
Client: Asian American Film Lab
Team: Yujia Chang, Chen Feng, Xiaoyuan Hu, Julianna Reitz, Qi Zhang
The Asian American Film Lab (AAFL) works to promote gender and ethnic diversity in films and elevate the voices of underrepresented groups. Each year, AAFL hosts several activities that are critical to the organization’s fundraising goals, including its …
Client: TRENTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
Team: Hanna Johnson, Nyell Lopez, Nathan Naimark, Michelle Smoler
The Trenton Police Department (TPD) has partnered with local organizations to launch Trenton Community Street Teams (TCST), a community-based violence intervention and prevention initiative designed to eliminate the cycle of violence in Trenton, New …
Client: HER JUSTICE
Team: Bergen Bodensteiner, Alexis Hidalgo, Zi Lin Liang, Elena Pereira, Jahmair Stewart
Her Justice supports women living in poverty in NYC by recruiting and mentoring lawyers to provide pro bono legal services that address individual and systemic legal barriers in the civil justice system. A challenge that Her Justice encounters in its …
Client: NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Team: Emily Finkelstein, Ziyi Gu, Michelle Henderson, Tara Merigan
Physical Education (PE) Works was a New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) initiative active from 2015 to 2019. The program sought to help all K-12 schools in Districts 1-32 meet NYS Physical Education requirements. This included operational and …
Client: LEONA M. AND HARRY B. HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST
Team: Shuangyu Chen, Guanqun Cong, Silvia De La Cruz, Claudia Frazer, Keyi Qiu, Zhuli Xin
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (Helmsley Trust) is dedicated to improving people's lives and building healthier futures for individuals and communities worldwide. Helmsley Trust invests in innovative ideas and research in six key …
Client: BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BOARD 17
Team: Jordyn Battle, Madelaine Britt, Sarah Internicola, Luke Walsh
Brooklyn Community Board 17 (CB17) is working with Brooklyn Level Up (BKLVLUP), a community development corporation and community land trust, to preserve homeownership and prevent displacement in East Flatbush. The client engaged the Capstone team to …
Client: LOCAL PUBLIC SECTOR ALLIANCE II
Team: Michael Carrady, Nicole Eason, Alondra Payan Mejia
The Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) is a nonprofit organization seeking to promote inclusive, equitable societies by enriching the understanding of decentralization and localization as complex, cross-cutting, and multi-stakeholder reforms. LPSA …
Client: PROVIDENT LOAN SOCIETY
Team: Sean Gilfeather, Zelan Li, Ziao Lin, Shiqi Ma, Yidan Wang, Chauntenay Young
For over a century, the Provident Loan Society has been providing access to cash to New Yorkers in need, with a special focus on immigrant and impoverished populations. The nonprofit client engaged a Capstone team to investigate the contributing factors …
Client: LOCAL PUBLIC SECTOR ALLIANCE I
Team: Sandon Mims, Angelica Zundel
The Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) is a nonprofit organization seeking to promote inclusive, equitable societies by enriching the understanding of decentralization and localization as complex, cross-cutting, and multi-stakeholder reforms. To advance …
Client: HEWNOAKS ARTIST RESIDENCY
Team: Lauren Bloom, Jiaxin Chen, Kevin Muehleman, Chris Noland
Hewnoaks Artist Residency is a small nonprofit located in Lovell, Maine that provides artists the gift of space and unstructured time to advance their work. Relying heavily on support from grants, Hewnoaks engaged the Capstone team to provide …
Client: INSTITUT PASTEUR
Team: Yeseul Lim, Jan Osea, Eshrat Oyeshee
The Institut Pasteur is a private, nonprofit foundation and internationally renowned center for biomedical research with a worldwide member network and 135-year history dedicated to studying infectious diseases. The client launched its “Pandemic …
Client: NEW YORK CITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Team: Hunter Blas, Maggie Jean Knight, Elizabeth Rilling, Izzy Vieira
New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) is the emergency coordination agency responsible for coastal storm preparedness, evacuation, and shelter in NYC. NYCEM tasked the Capstone team to support the agency with two coastal storm preparatory challenges: …
Client: NEW YORK CITY MAYOR'S OFFICE TO END DOMESTIC AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
Team: Megan Noelle Cantor, Symantha Clough, Joe Lenczewski, Saunders Ruffin, Siqi Wang
The NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) is an executive office that ensures inclusive services for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. Home+ is a signature ENDGBV program grounded in client self-determination …
Client: OONEE
Team: Jerrell Gray, Evan Mancini, J.R. Reed, Patrick Spauster
Oonee is a New York-based company that provides cities with a turnkey solution to the problem of bike theft by designing, financing, deploying, and managing modular bike parking facilities. To aid in its mission to build secure, affordable public bike …
Client: VILLAGE OF ARDSLEY
Team: Paulina Dawidowska, Pieter Fildes, Lia Hansen, Manya Johnston-Ramirez
The Village of Ardsley is a small municipality in Westchester County serving a population of just over 5,000 people. The Village seeks to reduce its environmental impact by lowering the emissions produced by its municipal transportation fleet without …
Client: CDP
Team: Boshan Chen, Jemma Giberson, Hannah Larson, Catherine Lopez
CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, is a nonprofit organization that manages the global disclosure system that companies and cities use to manage their environmental impacts. CDP tasked a Capstone team with transforming data from its …