Capstone Projects
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The Strategic Plan for the City of Buenos Aires (the Strategic Plan) is a shared vision of the future of the city developed with the participation of groups from the public, private and Non-Governmental sectors of society. With the cooperation of these …
Strategic Plan for the City of Buenos Aires
The Capstone team worked on the first phase of an international initiative, sponsored by United Towns Organization (UTO), to promote recycling activities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Small cooperatives organize unskilled scavengers who collect recyclable …
United Towns Organization
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has embarked on a large initiative to analyze the impact of globalization on developing nation-states through their Regional Initiative on Human Development Reports for Asia and the Pacific. Through the …
United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs
Mozambique has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Many women either die in childbirth or are scarred by the trauma of unsafe deliveries. This calamity, combined with the increasing burden of HIV/AIDS, malaria and anemia puts women …
United Methodist Committee on Relief
The Capstone consultant provided the Casal dels Infants del Raval a small nonprofit organization in Barcelona Spain, which is proposing its first strategic planning process. The Capstone consultants activities included conducting an external analysis of …
Casal dels Infants del Raval, Barcelon, Spain
The Municipal Development Program and World Bank Institute offer a course on Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform that aims to improve local government finance and provision of services through education and comparative review, with particular focus on poverty …
Municipal Development Program and World Bank Institute
The Capstone team was commissioned to perform an impact evaluation of the use of Freeplay wind-up radios in the flood-affected areas of Mozambique. The General Board of Global Ministries funded a large portion of the 7,500 self-powering radios, which were …
The Freeplay Foundation & The General Board of Global Ministries
Upon the request of the United Nations Development Program, the Capstone team was asked to analyze how cultural influences enhance or inhibit the processes of democratic decentralization in developing countries. Prior to the work of this Capstone team, …
United Nations Development Program
The Capstone team conducted an exploratory project on survey methods, design, and administration for New York Citys Depart-ment of Youth and Community Development (DYCD). Together with DYCD, the team designed a customer satisfaction survey to be sent to …
Department of Youth and Community Development
The Capstone team was responsible for researching a broad range of issues pertaining to decentralization as background for the preparation of a new World Bank loan to support decentralization in urban areas of Indonesia. The Capstone team produced two …
World Bank: Urban Development Division/East Asia and Pacific Region
Community Board 1 asked the Capstone team to create a livability plan for the neighborhoods surrounding the World Trade Center site. Even before the tragic events of 9/11, the Community Board has worked to develop, grow and improve Lower Manhattan. The …
Manhattan Community Board 1
The Capstone team conducted an evaluation of Youth Houses in Bosnia, Georgia, and Tajikistan, with specific interest in the programmatic and financial sustainability of the houses independent of United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) support. The …
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
"Hurricane Katrina devastated whole communities along the Gulf Coast. The storm was particularly damaging to traditionally marginalized neighborhoods in Gulfport, MS, that have long struggled to capitalize upon their assets. The Mississippi Center for …
Mississippi Center for Justice
The purpose of the Our World capstone project is to assist Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) and its partners in obtaining global youth perspectives on citizenship, identity, and world peace by coordinating the administration of a global …
Education Development Center
The purpose of the Our World capstone project is to assist Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) and its partners in obtaining global youth perspectives on citizenship, identity, and world peace by coordinating the administration of a global …
Education Development Center
"Biloxi, MS, suffered extensive damage during hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Biloxi Housing Authority (BHA) has been spearheading revitalization and rebuilding efforts to restore the vitality and diversity that made Biloxi a great community. While many …
Biloxi Housing Authority and Local Initiatives Support Corporation
"Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project LDC (MARP) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore Myrtle Avenue in the neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, to a bustling, economically vital neighborhood commercial corridor. MARP …
Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project Local Development Corporation
It is generally assumed that the only way for the US to address the threat of terror-ism is to defeat it by military means, and that the US should not and cannot negotiate-ate with terrorists (either because there are no issues to negotiate or terrorists …
Le Laboratoire Reserche Interdisciplinaires Ville Espace Societe
Setting industrial and product standards can have important implications for firms, consumers, industries, and national economies. Automobile standards are a case in point. For nearly a half-century, the Working Party 29 (WP) of the United Nations …
Le Laboratoire Reserche Interdisciplinaires Ville Espace Societe
The Education for Employment Foundation (EFE) works in the Middle East and North Africa to provide disadvantaged youth with the skills needed to improve their economic future and that of their countries. EFE accomplishes this objective by providing …
Education For Employment Foundation
The mission of the Environmental Advocates of New York is to protect the air, land, water and wildlife, and the health of all New Yorkers. Their work includes monitoring the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), New York State’s primary source of funding …
Environmental Advocates of New York
Traditional court-mandated Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) bring groups of batterers together to hold them accountable for their actions. However, new research raises questions about the effectiveness of BIPs in addressing domestic violence. The …
New York University Center on Violence and Recovery
Over the past few years, various studies have alternately demonstrated and refuted the ability of foreign aid to stimulate economic growth in developing countries, following the conventional wisdom that identifies growth as the major factor of poverty …
Research on Estimating the Impact of Foreign Aid on Education in Developing Countries
Over the past few years, various studies have alternately demonstrated and refuted the ability of foreign aid to stimulate economic growth in developing countries, following the conventional wisdom that identifies growth as the major factor of poverty …
Research on Estimating the Impact of Foreign Aid on Education in Developing Countries