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Impact of the office of national drug control policy reauthorization act of 2006 on illicit drug use
Client: Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006
Team: Anupama Arora, Julia Keyser, Jean Kim, Xavier Anthony Mera
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Reauthorization Act of 2006 reauthorized the ONDCP as the primary agency of U.S. federal drug control policy. The provisions of this act included a modification of the patient limits imposed on physicians …
Client: US Department of Veterans Affairs
Team: Shari Chung, Mayra Martinez, Caroline Mundela, Richelle Prioleau, Sybria White
The Office of Patient Care Services (PCS) within the Department of Veterans Affairs receives an enormous number of high-priority, deadline-sensitive electronic correspondence from Congress, the White House, the media, and veterans. PCS receives 200-500 …
Client: New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Team: Therese Bellerive-Beraud, Christine Dionisio, Johanna Mills, Morgan Schena
New York-Presbyterian (NYP) is one of the premier healthcare institutions in the United States. The hospital’s mission is to provide a full spectrum of medical interventions, from the prevention of disease and treatment of illness, to the promotion of …
Client: The Hunger Project
Team: Junchen Pan, Haoyan Zhong, Richard Graboski, Katelyn Riconda, Ran Qin
The Hunger Project (THP) works with over 17,000 communities in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America to develop innovative means of poverty and hunger reduction. With a special focus on women’s empowerment and social enterprise, THP aims to effect change …
Client: Catholic Medical Mission Board
Team: Esther Azasi, Angela Coral
Beginning in 1912, Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB), a faith-based organization, has supported global health care initiatives for the world’s poor by building healthy, sustainable communities through partnerships and community engagement. As part of …
Client: Church World Service
Team: Lizzie Murchison, Michael Jung, Logan Cummings
As the largest program within Church World Service (CWS), the Immigration and Refugee Program has resettled over 500,000 refugees in its 67-year history. While CWS has a solid history of monitoring and evaluating its network of refugee resettlement …
Client: Hospital for Special Surgery
Team: Emily Frisch, Tiffany Lopez, Jillian Villani-Scarr, Gregory Wyche
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is a world-renowned specialty hospital and a nationally-ranked leader in orthopedic and rheumatologic care. HSS stakeholders recognize that continuing education and professional development for nurses are essential …
Client: NYU Langone Medical Center - Division of Clinical and Hospital Affairs, Faculty Group Practice
Team: Fariha Ahsan, Andrew Chi, Darcie Goodman, Lucas Resende-Salgado, Hersh Shroff
The NYU Langone Faculty Group Practice (FGP) provides ambulatory care through more than 140 different practices. Due to practice acquisitions and recent technological upgrades, FGP has made patient experience a top priority. FGP requested that the …
Client: New York-Presbyterian Hospital - The Allen Hospital
Team: Jennifer DeWald, Lauren Groce, Megan Maikoff, Ama Mathewos, Chana Schwartz
New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) has invested in numerous healthcare information technology systems (HIT) to manage the organization’s productivity. HIT systems manage health information across computerized systems and secure information exchange …
Client: Nukanti Foundation for Children
Team: Camilo Fernandez, Kristen McNeill, Alonso Ortiz, Jennifer Swift
With chapters in Brazil, Colombia, Morocco, the U.K., and the U.S., the Nukanti Foundation focuses on identifying creative people working on social problems, and helping them work on a larger scale. In Colombia, one of Nukanti’s largest programs is …
Client: The Effect of the Early Medicaid Expansion on Hospital Uncompensated Care Costs
Team: Charles Burton, Oluwakemi Mary Ekunkoya, Binglie Luo, Wenqi Ma
From 2011 to 2013, the total uncompensated costs of charity care and bad debt for U.S. hospitals amounted to $37.2 billion each year, resulting in a net loss of $24.6 billion dollars each year. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law in 2010, would …
Client: Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity in State Legislatures
Team: Siddhartha P Aneja, Caroline Maitland Lynch Dean, Suvam Paul, Julian Quintanilla
Theoretically, legislatures that reflect the demographics of their electorates better represent their constituents’ interests. However, American state legislatures often do not mirror the racial, ethnic, and/or gender makeup of the citizens they …
Client: Employment Outcomes for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Participants
Team: Sean Joseph Blake, Danielle Cummings, Neha Hridaya, Rebekah O'Donoghue
In July 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, satisfying his vow to “end welfare as we know it.” The resulting program—Temporary Assistance for Needy Families …
Client: Higher Education Quotas
Team: Pablo Argote, Blanquita Honorato, Chris Salcedo, Michael Salkinder, Chen Xin
This research project studies the indirect effects of aggressive affirmative action university admission policies on high-school student achievement in Brazil. The Capstone team analyzed the early stages of a quota policy that was implemented by public …
Client: AdvantageCare Physicians
Team: Hewitt Chiu, Janna Goachee, Thomas John Hathaway, Allison B. Magier, Lena Marie Ricioppi, Tuan Van Tran
AdvantageCare Physicians (ACP) is a multi-specialty physician practice group delivering comprehensive, community-based care in convenient locations throughout the New York City metropolitan area. ACP is considering urgent care centers (UCCs) as a possible …
Client: State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management
Team: Monica Cecilia Guerra, Christopher James Pellegrino, Jimmy Tang
The State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management (OPM) is the Governor’s staff agency responsible for formulating and implementing public policy, including the preparation of the Governor’s budget proposal for the State. One of Governor Malloy’s …
Client: Office of the Manhattan Borough President
Team: Qili Ding, Soo Youn Kim, Katherine H. Krehbiel, Padmapriya Janakiraman
Food waste accounts for 31 percent of total NYC waste. Currently, food waste is collected by trucks and transported to landfills. Given land shortages, and the adverse environmental effects of landfills, the Office of the Manhattan Borough President …
Client: NYC Department of Health - Bureau of Vital Statistics
Team: Tianyang Shui, Alana Patrice Samuel, Vanessa Martinez, Hani Kfouri, Robert Reichgelt
The NYC Office of Vital Records (OVR), within the New York City Department of Health, is responsible for issuing all NYC birth and death certificates, processing approximately 650,000 paid certificates each year. OVR strives to be the most efficient of …
Client: Legal Services NYC
Team: Irma Alvarez, Toni Arcangel, Antoinette Koram, Natalia Montoya, Meizi Zhang
Since 1967, Legal Services New York City (LSNYC) has fought poverty and injustice by providing expert legal advice to low-income residents of NYC. Currently, LSNYC has more than 50 offices spread across all five boroughs and serves over 60,000 New Yorkers …
Client: Lavasa Corporation
Team: Rupert Verano, Jad Andari, Maria Landa, Sana Riaz
Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) is one of India’s largest infrastructure development companies, responsible for the construction of bridges, dams, road networks, and power plants. Expanding on its infrastructure development practice, HCC is currently …
Client: NYC Human Resources Administration - Jobs Plus
Team: Max Feld, Allison Kroner, Lexi Neibart, Raquel Vazquez, Sherese Ward
New York City public housing residents experience high levels of poverty and unemployment. Administered by NYC’s Human Resources Administration (HRA), Jobs-Plus is a place-based employment program designed to tackle this issue. Jobs-Plus offers job …
Client: Students for Service
Team: James An, Tesandra Cohen, Jordan Bailey-Hoover, Diana Limongi
Students for Service’s (SFS) Teens for Food Justice is a NYC-based program that brings together teen volunteers to build and manage hydroponic farms that grow food for families in underserved, food-desert communities. In 2013, SFS launched this program at …
Client: Montclair Cooperative School
Team: Christina Brennan, Laura Patterson, Ashley Shedrick-Owens, Kathleen Walsh, Ruo Zhang
The Montclair Cooperative School (Co-Op) is a cooperative school founded in 1963. Since its founding, the Co-Op has expanded to include nursery through eighth grade and can currently accommodate just under 200 students. The Co-Op requested a Capstone team …
Client: New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
Team: Ben Brown, Ella Cho, Yichen He, Annie McWilliams, Vikram Sinha
New York State does not currently have a mandatory statewide policy for Officer-Involved Domestic Violence (OIDV). A strong domestic violence policy holds all domestic violence offenders accountable for their abusive behaviors, while prioritizing the …
Client: The Opportunity Network
Team: Casie Addison, Sara Alwan, Joe Eastman, Aiswara Kumar, Jonathan Lewis
Over the last decade, The Opportunity Network (OppNet) has successfully driven post-secondary success and employability for low-income public school students. Their curriculum has four components that maximize outcomes for college graduation and career …
Client: NYC Department of Transportation - Traffic and Planning
Team: Cary Fukui, Emily Rhodes, Lily Gordon-Koven, Gehad Hadidi, Lesley Snyder
The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) Freight Mobility Department is seeking to ensure efficient and frictionless freight delivery throughout the five boroughs. In the face of increasing residential pressure and national freight …
Client: New York Academy of Medicine
Team: Stacey Coburn, Arielle Dulberg, Jamie Gutter, Daniel Shad, Selwyn Yeh
The Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health (CHM), part of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), was established in 2012. With more than 550,000 volumes, CHM is one of the largest medical library collections in the United States. It holds …
Client: Resilience Advocacy Project
Team: Aaron Ganas, Elena Garofalo, Alvin Irby, Rosa Valdes
The Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP) is a nonprofit organization that uses community impact projects and innovative leadership programs to empower New York City youth to become leaders in the fight against poverty. Although performance measurement and …
Client: Sembrandopaz
Team: Alexandra Carlino, Haoyue Zhang, Kelsey Liddy, Stephen Stephanou
Sembrandopaz is a Colombian nonprofit dedicated to facilitating a culture of peace among grassroots organizations, with the goal of supporting integral and sustainable human development processes in the Caribbean region of Colombia. Sembrandopaz requested …
Client: Sustainable Long Island/City of Long Beach
Team: Mariana Oliver, Kevin James McNamara, Ian Hartz, Tallant Burley
Sustainable Long Island (SLI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing economic development, environmental health, and social equity throughout Long Island. SLI has been working with the City of Long Beach to rebuild infrastructure and provide …
Client: Enterprise Community Partners
Team: Celia Weaver, Ali Levine, Alan Leung, William Vidal
Enterprise Community Partners (ECP) is a leading provider of development capital and capacity building for entities seeking to create affordable homes and rebuild communities. ECP’s products and services include: tax credit equity and asset management, …
Client: New York Academy of Medicine
Team: Annis Benn, Anna Mancusi, Lauren Ottulich, Sean Robinson, Joshua Schaier
Over the last few years, the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has seen how store layout and indifferent service can make older New Yorkers feel marginalized and discourage them from shopping independently. Given the projected growth of the older …
Client: Kinvolved
Team: Simone Andrews, Melissa Heinz, Junior Menon, Bennett Rathbun, Noelia Rodriguez
Students who are chronically absent have a significantly lower chance of graduating from high school. Kinvolved is increasing graduation rates for at-risk students by improving attendance and facilitating communication between schools, families, and …
Client: Partnership for Parks
Team: Elizabeth Gillroy, Sarah Mallory, Lindsay Spangler, Andrew Bavelock
Catalyst is the signature project of Partnerships for Parks, a public-private program that supports a network of leaders advocating for neighborhood parks and green spaces. The Catalyst program brings local partners together to improve underserved parks, …
Client: City of Mount Vernon Department of Planning and Community Development
Team: Xinyun Wu, Paul Balik, Dan Rathman, Charlotte Laffler
The City of Mount Vernon is an inner-ring suburb of New York City located approximately 13 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. Like many urban areas across the country, Mount Vernon is confronting a range of challenges to its economy and quality of life. At …
Client: The Time In Children's Arts Initiative
Team: Jacob Berman, Sarah Stefanski, Song Ni
The Time In Children’s Arts Initiative is an art-centric educational program designed to improve children’s intellectual, aesthetic, and social-emotional capacity. Each week, Time In brings children from some of the city’s most under-resourced public …
Client: NPower
Team: Diana Andrade, Afuo Boampong, Katherine Crisalli, Xin Feng, Jessica Lee
Founded in New York City in 2001, NPower is a nonprofit organization aimed at mobilizing the tech community to provide individuals, nonprofits, and schools with access and opportunity to build tech skills and achieve their potential. One of NPower’s …
Client: NYC Department of Small Business Services
Team: Jaewon Chung, James Kaiser, Marilla Li, Adina Poupko, Caroline Senatore
The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) seeks to ensure that every entrepreneur and jobseeker in NYC has the resources needed to succeed and thrive. Workforce1, a key service of SBS, prepares and connects qualified candidates to job …
Client: China Center for Urban Development - National Development and Reform Commission
Team: Lemel Lindsey, Gauri Jumde, Luxi Hong, Diego Benitez
The China Center for Urban Development (CCUD) is a public institution of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Since 1998, CCUD has provided guidance for 711 pilot cities under NDRC’s program to address major issues such as urbanization …
Client: Regional Plan Association
Team: James Leyba, Maha Ali Al-Dhaheri, Alissa Gordon, Natalia Hidalgo
The Regional Plan Association (RPA), in partnership with the World Bank Institute, has initiated the Metropolitan Strategic Planning Lab (MetroLab), a platform for cities across the world to share challenges and solutions to metropolitan planning and …
Client: National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
Team: Arvella Wynter, Meghan Haenn, Mingda Zhao, Nicole Wenyuan Liu, Sylvia Tianjiao Wang
The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions helps low- and moderate-income individuals achieve financial independence by organizing, supporting, and investing in credit unions that serve underserved communities. The Federation’s members …
Client: Words Without Borders
Team: Daniel Roboff, Karla Adriana Robles, Lauren Stewart,
Words without Borders (WWB), an organization dedicated to enhancing cultural understanding by promoting translations of international literature, is looking for ways to expand its reach and engage more readers. Through preliminary research on WWB’s …
Client: Girls Write Now
Team: Deborah Embaie, Lydia Avila, Jiawen Meng, Kobi Rav, Xuan Zhang
Founded in 1998, Girls Write Now (GWN) mentors underserved young women to find their voices through the power of writing and community. GWN’s programs include one-on-one mentoring, workshops on writing, reading showcases, digital training, and college …
Client: Jewish Foundation Education of Women
Team: Ilana Fried, Erica Greenblatt, Mia McCully, Ivonne Salazar
In 2008, the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women (JFEW) changed its scholarship strategy by moving away from awarding scholarships directly to students, and instead providing grants to universities and institutions. These partners select scholarship …
Client: Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc.
Team: Flora Mendoza, Melissa Friesen, Paulina Forbes, Andrew Group, Adrian Untermyer
Since 1986, Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (HCCI) has helped Harlem residents rebuild and sustain their community by providing economic development and empowerment opportunities. Focusing on the Bradhurst neighborhood, HCCI develops …
Client: Fitch Ratings
Team: April Yidan Zhang, Ariel Shuchun Yang, Hellen Chen, Hilary Huiyuan Song, Jaspreet Kaur, Kyle Griswold
Fitch Ratings is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSRO) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975. The Public Finance Division at Fitch Ratings plays an important role in assessing the …
Client: Girl Be Heard
Team: Adam Pearce, Allie Lenci Bryan, Danielle M Cherubin, Fiona N Jaramillo
Founded in 2008, Girl Be Heard (GBH) is a theatre company that sets the stage for girls to inspire local and global change. GBH is currently in an exciting period of expansion and opportunity and engaged a Capstone team to evaluate its current mission, …
Client: Freshkills Park, NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation
Team: Iris Ramirez, Elisabeth Weir, Elizabeth Casey, Lulu Xu
At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park in Staten Island will be nearly three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in the city in over 100 years. What was once the world’s largest landfill is transforming into a stunning landscape that …
Client: Enterprise Community Partners
Team: Austin Flint Turner, Madeleine S. Goico, Ellen Elizabeth McCartney, Jessica C. Soursourian, Yang Yang
Enterprise Community Partners (ECP) is a nonprofit organization that develops and preserves affordable housing at local and national levels through advocacy and strategic partnerships with financial institutions, governments, and community organizations. …
Client: Hudson River Park Trust
Team: Da'shone A. Hughey, Jiayu Liu, Sitong Ren, Yifeng Zhang
Hudson River Park, the second longest waterfront park in the United States, has transformed four miles of decaying piers and parking lots along Manhattan’s West side into a beloved, urban recreational paradise, attracting 17 million visits each year. …