Capstone Projects
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In order to meet the Millennium Development Goals, governments in developing nations will need to substantially improve their ability to deliver basic infrastructure and services. One of the most promising strategies for achieving this is the use of …
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
In order to meet the Millennium Development Goals, governments in developing nations will need to substantially improve their ability to deliver basic infrastructure and services. One of the most promising strategies for achieving this is the use of …
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Effective performance management requires that appropriate goals be set by an organization and that the organization’s performance relative to those goals be assessed by objective measures. In New York City government, it is not always clear whether …
Citizens Budget Commission
Effective performance management requires that appropriate goals be set by an organization and that the organization’s performance relative to those goals be assessed by objective measures. In New York City government, it is not always clear whether …
Citizens Budget Commission
The Philadelphia Streets Department (PSD) oversees and maintains many of the city’s vital infrastructure and services, including its streets, street lighting, sanitation, snow removal, traffic control, and bridges. The PSD’s Deputy Commissioner of …
City of Philadelphia Streets Department
Legal Momentum works with career and technical education (CTE) high schools in New York City to improve the recruitment and retention of girls. Legal Momentum's Pipeline Project seeks to increase the number of middle school and high school aged girls in …
Legal Momentum
The New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence (OCDV) has been selected to implement a Brooklyn-based Family Justice Center (FJC), an innovative model to streamline the delivery of services for domestic violence victims by co-locating the …
Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence
The New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence (OCDV) has been selected to implement a Brooklyn-based Family Justice Center (FJC), an innovative model to streamline the delivery of services for domestic violence victims by co-locating the …
Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence
Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) is an organization dedicated to empowering students to address global issues related to development, peace and security, the environment, and public health in their communities. In 2009, AID faced a dramatic …
Americans for Informed Democracy
NYC suffers from a low rate of plastics recycling, and the national plastic resin identification coding (RIC) system is undergoing revisions that may influence this trend. The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) seeks to identify the causes for …
New York City Department of Sanitation
Fiscal Management Associates (FMA) is a management consulting firm based in New York City that empowers nonprofit organizations with fiscal management, accounting, organizational, and technological knowledge and skills. One significant segment of FMA’s …
Fiscal Management Associates
"The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) improves the health of people living in cities, especially the disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, through research, education, community engagement, and evidencebased policy advocacy. NYAM is located in …
New York Academy of Medicine
The Capstone team assisted the World Bank in the conceptualization and development of a model slumresettlement site that promotes the principles of affordability, livability, and economic and environmental sustainability for the urban poor. The model …
The World Bank – Model Resettlement, Philippines
Recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of the eleven most endangered historic places in the United States, the Hackensack Water Works is a monument to New Jersey’s industrial past. Since its donation to Bergen County in 1993, …
Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability
Young people ages 15-24 comprise almost half of the six million Americans who will become infected with human papilloma virus (HPV) this year. In addition, because of racial and economic disparities in health care, women of color and women in poverty are …
Legal Momentum
Citizens Committee for Children (CCC) is a 60-year old child advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated, and safe. CCC requested that the Capstone team study preventive services available …
Citizens Committee for Children of New York
Citizens Committee for Children (CCC) is a 60-year old child advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated, and safe. CCC requested that the Capstone team study preventive services available …
Citizens Committee for Children of New York
Health Plus is a Medicaid Managed Care plan serving over 300,000 patient members throughout the New York Metropolitan area. Health Plus aims to improve provider satisfaction and better incentivize quality of care. To accomplish this goal, the Capstone …
Health Plus
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is a special purpose fund for smallscale investment aimed at reducing poverty in the least developed countries affiliated with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). In 2007, UNCDF …
United Nations Capital Development Fund – Investment Fund, Nicaragua
Opening Act is a free, year-long, after-school theater program that provides students attending New York’s most under-served public schools with weekly theater instruction from an experienced teaching artist. After eleven years of operation, Opening Act …
Opening Act
In the process of reinventing public enterprise management, there is an array of new constraints, demands, innovations and trends. These trends and their implications have been discussed throughout the year in detail at the UNDESA Expert Group Meeting and …
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
In the process of reinventing public enterprise management, there is an array of new constraints, demands, innovations and trends. These trends and their implications have been discussed throughout the year in detail at the UNDESA Expert Group Meeting and …
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
This research project investigates public investment in infrastructure and its effect on state level economic growth in Brazil. Brazil is currently undergoing a national plan to pave highways. This project examines whether the highway stock, both paved …
Research on Infrastructure Investment
Brooklyns Gowanus Canal, once a vibrant oyster bed and pristine fishery, is today one of the most toxic waterways in the United States. But with land becoming increasingly sparse in New York City, vacant lots along the canal have the potential to be …
New York City Department of City Planning