Capstone Projects
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Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation (PERC) is an emergency shelter and soup kitchen that aims to defeat the cycle of poverty by providing shelter, food, social service referrals, and education programs. The Capstone team was engaged by PERC's …
Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation
NYU School of Medicine (NYUSoM) seeks to improve its medical school training curriculum to reflect the change in health care delivery from inpatient to outpatient care. As part of this effort, NYUSoM charged the Capstone team to improve the ambulatory …
New York University Langone Medical Center
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) requested a Capstone team to review the finances of regulated Jewish cemeteries in New York. It has been suggested that the expenses of some of the regulated cemeteries in New York City will outdistance their …
Jewish Community Relations Council
Restored Homes (RH) Housing Development Fund Corporation was selected as the local nonprofit to implement the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) in New York City. NSP is a federal program created to address increases in home abandonment, …
Restored Homes Housing Development Fund Corporation and the Center for New York City Neighborhoods
The Capstone team worked with the Agency for Economic Development in Caracas, Venezuela on two main activities relating to informal street vendors operating in Petare, an informal settlement. The tasks included gathering information about the vending …
Municipality of Sucre: Agency for Economic Development
The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies promotes the social and economic well-being of greater New Yorks most vulnerable by strengthening human service organizations and advocating for just policies. The Federation works with more than 200 member …
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Founded in 2010, four graduates of the management school at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo launched Instituto Tellus to inspire more innovative models in public management. In order to create a more dynamic, efficient, transparent, and …
Instituto Tellus
Partnership for the Homeless is a New York City based nonprofit committed to breaking the cycle of homelessness by helping clients achieve long-term prosperity. The Partnership requested a Capstone team to design a Career Development Program at their …
Partnership for the Homeless
UPROSE is a youth and environmental justice advocacy organization based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, whose main goals include maintaining a working waterfront and increasing green space to improve the health of its community. The Capstone team examined the …
UPROSE (United Puerto RicanOrganization of Sunset Park)
UPROSE is a youth and environmental justice advocacy organization based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, whose main goals include maintaining a working waterfront and increasing green space to improve the health of its community. The Capstone team examined the …
UPROSE (United Puerto RicanOrganization of Sunset Park)
The Capstone team conducted a process evaluation of the New York City Department of Probation's (Department) containment model for supervising sex offenders. The Department commenced this new model in October 2008, but had not examined the extent to which …
New York City Department of Probation
The Centre for Human Development and Social Transformation (CHDST) was formed in 2005 to implement community development projects in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. CHDST requested that the Capstone team perform an organizational assessment and create …
The Centre for Human Development and Social Transformation
The Capstone team assisted the Department of Geriatrics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital to create a plan and make recommendations for a Consortium on Aging at the institution, encouraging greater collaboration and communication regarding geriatric work …
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University
Gender segregation and the under enrollment of girls in career and technical education programs are pervasive problems in New York City and across the country. Although robust federal, state, and local legislation exists to protect women and girls from …
Legal Momentum
The Capstone team performed a qualitative evaluation of Bhavishya Alliance's Girls Gaining Ground program, a pilot program to empower adolescent girls in Maharashtra, India. The team traveled to India, where it conducted site visits in Mumbai slums and …
Bhavishya Alliance
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. CCSSO is launching a new Global Education Initiative to become a global leader in sharing best education policies and …
Council of Chief State School Officers
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. CCSSO is launching a new Global Education Initiative to become a global leader in sharing best education policies and …
Council of Chief State School Officers
The Capstone team provided a market analysis and business plan for a dairy goat farm in Kenya for Medical Relief Alliance (MRA). MRA is a small NGO with a goat-gifting program (Goat Hope) for women affected by HIV/AIDS. MRA’s objective is to start a …
Medical Relief Alliance
Gram Vikas is a nonprofit organization located in rural east India with a mission to promote processes which are sustainable, socially inclusive and gender equitable to enable critical masses of poor and marginalized rural people or communities to achieve …
Gram Vikas
After taking office in 2006, Township of Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac identified the Pennval Road Redevelopment District as one of four priority project areas. The Township has since proposed that the 104-acre site be transformed from its current …
Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey
After decades of internal conflict and highly centralized government, the Republic of Guatemala is embarking on reforms designed to ease the social, economic, and political problems plaguing the country. A key priority is the gradual decentralization of …
World Bank Institute
After decades of internal conflict and highly centralized government, the Republic of Guatemala is embarking on reforms designed to ease the social, economic, and political problems plaguing the country. A key priority is the gradual decentralization of …
World Bank Institute
"The Capstone team studied the problems associated with a lack of access to healthy food in underserved urban neighborhoods, and how planners can help rectify the situation. Grocery stores and supermarkets are common in suburbs, but in many poor …
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University
Women in Need (WIN) is a New York City-based nonprofit organization that offers residential shelter in conjunction with support services to help homeless families achieve residential stability. Social support services include employment services, domestic …
Women In Need