Capstone Projects
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Client: United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
Team: Martha Isabel Casey, Azadeh Fartache, Lori Mizuno, Daniel Saccardi, Jyoti Venketraman
The United Nations Office for Internal Oversight (UN-OIOS) assists the Secretary-General in internal oversight activities including audits, monitoring, inspections, evaluations, consulting, and investigation activities. The UN-OIOS mandate for the …
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Team: Iris Lin, Michelle McInnis, Chris Miles, Jennifer Quackenbush, Hollie Sarrazin
The presence of lice is a public nuisance, the impact of which extends beyond the scalp. Not only can treating lice be costly with treatments ranging from $10 to $100, but also students may miss multiple days of school as a result of strict lice policies, …
Client: Primary Care Development Corporation
Team: Bettina Bell, Emily Burns, Ana Goffin, Melanie Heffley, Rebecca Stauffer
The Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC), a health care consulting firm, was created in 1993 with the mission to improve access to primary and preventive healthcare for low-income and medically underserved populations through partnerships with many …
Client: Inter-American Development Bank
Team: Julio Laguna, Luciana Mermet, Andrs Muoz, Grant Poujade
The Inter-American Development Banks (IADB) Building Opportunity for the Majority initiative, launched in June 2006, identified that inadequate access to basic infrastructure services (water, sanitation, electricity, urban transport and rural roads) …
Client: Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Team: Bren-Ann Chin, JoAnn Frank, Rachel Friedman, Ramneek Nakai, Lindsay Slater
While Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Hospice Care provides an extensive array of bereavement resources to loved ones of hospice patients, the organization currently offers only limited grief and loss services to the non-hospice community. As …
Client: Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
Team: Lori Arfe, Anat Barber, Jessica Chait, Melina Gimal, Courtney Wisotsky
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is an organization representing and coordinating the efforts of Jewish Community Councils citywide. It advocates for the needs of the poor and near-poor through provision of social services and legislative …
Client: Center for Vision Care Policy
Team: Trafford Crump
Empirical research is a fundamental pillar upon which public policy is built. It is also a means for the evaluation of current policy and, if appropriately applied, the basis for change. This residency gave the student an opportunity to be part of that …
Client: Asphalt Green
Team: Jeannemarie Hendershot, Laura Sadai, Avra Siegel, Gabriel Verdaguer, Jessica Woldt
Asphalt Green is a sports and fitness facility located in Manhattans Upper East Side, known best as New York Citys premiere aquatics facility. Catering to a diverse group of New Yorkers, Asphalt Green serves fee-based clientele through youth and masters …
Client: Childrens Hospital of New York- Presbyterian
Team: Estee Pavlounis
At the Childrens Hospital of New York- Presbyterian (CHONY), the resident had the opportunity to work on various projects that were related to both the financial and operational aspects of the organization. The resident was involved in the Service …
Client: CMC St. Vincent's Medical Center
Team: Wendy Chan
Working directly with the Vice President of Operations, the resident was able to develop and tailor a program that would suit her needs and interests. Subsequently, the resident worked on projects throughout the hospital that exposed her to all aspects of …
Client: New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Team: Sandhya Parathath
The residents first two months were spent working with the Associate Director of Quality Management preparing and planning for the 2002 JCAHO Survey, followed by the NYSDOH Article 28/CMS Title 18 Survey. The residents duties entailed updating manuals, …
Client: The New York Junior League
Team: Naimie Lundi, Jody Rudin, Brian Thomas
In a funding climate where nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly accountable for quantifying the successes of their programs, the Capstone team developed both qualitative and quantitative criteria that the New York Junior League (NYJL) can use …
Client: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Team: "Sharad Aggarwal, Aparna Dalal, Kristin Gilliss, Karolyn Rancourt"
"The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy conducts research, policy evaluations, education, and training on policy issues relating to land around the world. The Institute has international studies programs that focus specifically on Latin America, the …
Client: International Center of New York
Team: Ayesha Ali, John Hernandez, Cara Kuo, Jillian Rubio, Chad Wheeless
The International Center of New York (ICNY) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching English as a second language and New York culture to immigrants, refugees, and other newcomers. The Capstone team was brought in to achieve four objectives: 1) …
Client: Girls Quest
Team: Fabiola Dieudonne, Shan Harris, Wendy LaMotta, Amber Min-Lee, Tonya Plear
Girls Quest is a nonprofit organization in New York City that works with girls from low income families, offering programs that are designed to build academic and social competence. The organization works to achieve its mission by offering outdoor …
Client: New York University Hospitals Center
Team: Corinne Dale Grafstein, Kimberly Krieghbaum, Janet Y. Lee, Su-Chieh Pamela Sun
Effective interactions between attending physicians and house officers in a teaching hospital are of great importance to patient care quality and successful medical education. The Capstone team worked with the Chief of Medicine at the New York University …
Client: United Jewish Organizations of Brooklyn
Team: Otis Johnson, Linda Scheer, Deven Unadkat
United Jewish Organizations of Brooklyn (UJO) has been addressing the human service needs of Brooklyns Jewish community since 1967. Since scarce data is available which describes the health care needs of the Chassidic community in South Williamsburg, UJO …
Client: Nonprofit Finance Fund
Team: Robin Deutsch Edwards, Danielle Antoinette Henry, Kamilah O'Brien, Adja Sakho, Sarah Walker, Justin Walter
The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is a nonprofit organization providing financing and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations. NFF, in its mission to help realize a strong and well capitalized nonprofit sector, requested a Capstone team to develop …
Client: Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Team: Sarah Ginsburg, Nyisha Hohn, Carrie Lovelace, Derrick Woodard
Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), a $900 million certified home healthcare agency, serves more than 100,000 patients annually in New York City and is the largest nonprofit agency of its kind in the nation. Currently, VNSNY is focusing on …
Client: Diabetes Project at Gouverneur Hospital
Team: Matthew Clavel, Ana Hristova, Karen Mengers-OBrien, Shari Strauss, Jenny Chaojie Tong
The Diabetes Management Project at Gouverneur Health Services helps mostly low-income patients with diabetes to man-age their illness. This project works to control diabetics glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol and ensures that patients haveannual …
Client: Bronx Council on the Arts
Team: Amanda Konstam, Lauren Kunis, Susie Lupert, Breeze Sando, Debra Stein
The mission of Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is to encourage and increase the publics awareness and participation in the arts, and to nurture the development of artists and arts and cultural organizations. The BCA is working to establish a creative …
Client: Sharsheret
Team: Susan Chung, Aleksandra Kovalishin, Luz Navar, Michael Schrieber, Claire Van Kerkhove
Sharsheret is a national nonprofit organization of Jewish breast cancer survivors that pairs young women facing breast cancer in their 20s, 30s, and 40s with volunteers who can share their experiences and provide a strong support network. Sharsheret …
Client: United Methodist Committee on Relief: Indonesia Evaluation
Team: Kelly Mahoney, Rachel Marcus, Meredith Sanger
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is the not-for-profit humanitarian aid organization of the United Methodist Church. UMCOR works in over 80 countries worldwide to alleviate human suffering resulting from war, conflict or natural disaster. …
Client: CDS International
Team: John D. Carrion, Jamie Sears, Thalia Theodore
CDS International is committed to the advancement of international career training opportunities to provide individuals with in-depth practical knowledge of other nations business practices, cultures, and political traditions. CDS believes these …
Client: American Humanics
Team: Theresa Chinte, Chris Jackson, Steven Josselson, Esther Lavitt, Le T. Quach
Based in Kansas City, American Humanics (AH) is a national alliance of colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations. Its mission is to educate professionals to strengthen and lead nonprofit organizations. American Humanics Initiative for Nonprofit …
Client: World Bank
Team: Sarika Abbi, Rumana Ahmad, Raquel de los Reyes, Elizabeth Hewitt
The World Bank recently completed a survey of living conditions in over 3,700 slum households in Dakar, Senegal and Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicated that living conditions (e.g. piped water, sanitation, electricity) in the slums of Nairobi were far …
Client: New York City Mayors Office to Combat Domestic Violence, Family Justice Center
Team: Patty Landry, Esmeralda Matos, Kate Millea, Susanna Osorno
The Brooklyn Family Justice Center (FJC) is part of The New York City Mayors Office to Combat Domestic Violence. The FJC provides coordinated and efficient services to victims of domestic violence with the assistance of community based organizations and …
Client: Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare System
Team: Deirdre Betancourt, Kim Brown, Tina Comissiong, Daniel Meisels, Sesha Pochiraju, Liana Purnama
The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare Systems (JHHLS) currently provides a wide spectrum of health care and health related services to the elderly population in New York City and Westchester County. With the growth rate of the elderly population currently …
Client: The New York Times Knowledge Network
Team: Margaret Figley, Daniel H. Park, Raelene M. Sheehy, Allison E. Slaughter
The Capstone team assisted The New York Times (NYT) in developing an international section for its Web site, The Knowledge Network (www.nytimes.com/democracy), which in collaboration with the American Democracy Project, promotes informed civic engagement …
Client: Fonkoze USA
Team: Sidney Povall, Marissa Pretto, Beatrice Ridore, Jonathan Spampinato
Microfinance has been used for more than thirty years as a way to provide financial services to the poorest of the poor. Microfinance offers informal banking options and encourages entrepreneurship to help bring its clients out of poverty. This report is …
Client: MOUSE
Team: Daniel Blakemore, Sharon Meiri Fox, Cecily Griesser, Leslie Lewin, Maricel Piriz
MOUSE is a nonprofit organization pioneering innovative school programs in support of its mission to be a catalyst for the effective integration of technology in teaching and learning in urban public schools, empowering students and schools to succeed …
Client: Friends of the Birth Center
Team: Ted Chiu, Stacian Davis, Andrew Fish, Brenda Hurtubise, Shannon Kostrowski, Dahla Louis
Friends of the Birth Center (FBC) is a nonprofit organization striving to create a state-of-the-art green design out-of-hospital birth and womens health center in Manhattan promoting access to midwifery care for all women in New York City. The Capstone …
Foreign Defense Procurement and Its Implications for National Security and the Domestic Labor Market
Client: Congressional Research Service
Team: Allison Ball, David Cerron, Amy Lei, Kristin M. Spanos, Nelya Zonis
The Congressional Research Service engaged the Capstone team to gain a better understanding of foreign defense procurement and its potential implications for national security and the domestic labor market. Using data acquired from the DD350, the …
Client: Nativity Mission Center
Team: Sonjeya Fitzgerald, Carolina Gomez, Melanie Lowe, Niah Shearer
The Nativity Mission Center is an all-boys Jesuit middle school on the Lower East Side whose mission is to provide quality education to underserved children. The Capstone team was asked to research how demographic changes may affect enrollment in the …
Client: Gaia Institute
Team: Eric Goldwyn, Angie Hacker, Jaime Hernandez, Matthew Hopkins, Scott Solish
Green roofs serve as an innovative strategy to help cities develop sustainable practices that contribute to the restoration of their natural habitat. Dense urban development and neglect have jeopardized New York Citys environment and created a situation …
Client: New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Team: Elizabeth Ferber, Himanshu Mistry, Stephen Paczkowski, Vanessa Roy, David Rozan, Lindsay Robbins
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the largest municipal housing agency in the nation with over 2,800 employees and an annual operating budget of approximately $480 million. Recently, HPD undertook a Greening Initiative as an …
Client: NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
Team: Gloria Hwang
During her first rotation, the resident participated in the advanced access program, in which she took an active part by collecting data, monitoring progress, and contributing to possible action plans to reduce appointment wait times. In the process of …
Client: NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
Team: Andrea Bowe
At Columbia Affiliation, Harlem Hospital Center, the resident had the opportunity to observe several departments and worked primarily in Faculty Practice and the Medicine Clinic. One of the residents major projects involved the Advanced Access …
Client: Health Plus PHSP, Inc.
Team: Greg Rhodes
At Health Plus, one of New York Citys largest managed care organizations, the resident worked on several organizationwide projects, including implementing a performance improvement program. The goal of the program is to develop a culture of continuous …
Client: Village of Hempstead, Community Development Agency
Team: Kate Bender, David Drits, Adam Freed, Javeriya Syed, Luz Tavarez, Robert Williams
The Village of Hempstead, located in the Town of Hempstead in central Nassau County, has experienced economic decline and blight in previous decades and is currently embarking on a plan of downtown revitalization and redevelopment. As part of its plans …
Client: The Educational Alliance
Team: Ariel Dannis, Shira Hutt, Tami Rock, Dana Schneider, Mark Young, Polly Zavadivker
In order to implement its completed strategic plan in the areas of program and revenue development, The Educational Alliance asked the Capstone team to conduct a competitive analysis of their fee-for-service offerings in order to determine how to …
Client: New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Central Office
Team: Sona Joshi
In addition to researching opportunities for workforce development and tracking grant spending for the Community Health Partnership grant, the resident coordinated the corporate Memorandum of Understanding contract with the City University of New York. …
Client: Action Against Hunger USA
Team: Christiana Evers, David Haight, Mary C. Little, Nancy Tan-Vandermark, Sandra Tiwari, Michelle Vivanz
Action Against Hunger USA (AAH) is an international relief organization that delivers emergency aid and sustainable development services to people suffering from hunger and malnutrition as a result of natural disaster, war, or other political …
Client: "Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Surgery"
Team: "Leonie Gordon, Andrew Mainardi, Sara Mody, Tamir Novotny, Ginseng Torres-Chae"
"In anticipation of its new Ambulatory Surgery Center, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Department of Surgery engaged the Capstone team in the gathering and aggregating of throughput/capacity and surgical fee packages data from physician interviews, …
Client: Lutheran Family Health Centers
Team: "Jenifer Brake, Connie Chuang, Brenda Jimenez, Patrick Minson"
"Lutheran HealthCare has embarked on a strategic plan to expand its rehabilitation services. A primary goal is to improve the referral rate from Lutheran Medical Center to Lutheran Family Health Centers' outpatient rehabilitation centers, promoting …
Client: The Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center
Team: Chad Bolton, Margarita Farias, MaryAnn Marrocolo, Kathleen Donovan Riegelhaupt, Gaby Schoenfeld
The Community Development Project (CDP) of the Urban Justice Center (UJC) provides legal, technical, research, and policy assistance to groups in New York City working on social justice issues such as affordable housing, workers and immigrants rights, …
Client: Palladia
Team: Jahkedda Akbar, Cortney Harding, Amy Hecker, H. Paul H. Le, Anjali Nadig
Palladia is a nonprofit organization which offers substance abuse treatment, with a focus on assisting parents in reunifying with their children. Now at a pivotal point in its communication development, Palladia requested a Capstone team to study service …
Client: Hispanic Federation
Team: Chandana Banerjee, Rachel Barek, Bryan Day, Michelle Villanueva
The Hispanic Federation is a not-for-profit health and human services organization operating in the tri-state region. The Federation sought to identify new sources of funding and expand its current donor base in order to sustain current programs, …
Client: Center for Community Alternatives
Team: Angela Cox, Julie Greilsheimer, Lakeshia Hudson, Eric Kane, Neela Mukherjee Lockel
The Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) engaged the Capstone team to conduct a comprehensive analysis designed to aid the agency in maintaining leadership in the field of community-based alternatives to incarceration. In an effort to assist the …
Client: Innovatix, LLC
Team: Daniel Chao
Innovatix, LLC is a dynamic, full-service group purchasing organization (GPO) that services more than 4,400 alternate site providers throughout the United States. In September of 2003, Innovatix started an initiative in response to members requests aptly …