Capstone: Learning in Action
Why Projects?
A Capstone team may conduct a literature review, perform an environmental scan, develop an operational framework to streamline workflow, create a financial model, or put forth policy recommendations, among other things, culminating in a final report and presentation.
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"The project was originally intended to help us overhaul a financial literacy program, but actually ended up being the catalyst to overhauling our entire foundation giving strategy."
-Braeden Mayrisch, Director of Social Impact, Voya Financial
"The Capstone team was a powerful and effective resource for our process improvement project."
-Monica Marquez, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
EXPLORE PAST CAPSTONE PROJECTS
Since 1995, more than 6,800 Capstone students have completed over 1,500 projects for more than 1,000 organizations, among them City Harvest, Mount Sinai Health System, the New York City Department of Transportation, and the World Bank. Browse through the projects our student teams have successfully tackled in the past.
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The Beginning of a Lifelong Journey From Fieldwork in Mozambique to a Career in Social Entrepreneurship
Alicia Polak (MPA 2001), in one of the first Capstone teams to work abroad, partnered with the Freeplay Foundation in Mozambique to perform an impact evaluation on the use of radios as humanitarian aid tools in the flood-affected areas of the country.
NYU Wagner Urban Planning Capstone Team Develops Interactive Geospatial Tool for Better Buses
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) enlisted the help of a NYU Wagner Capstone team in 2020-21 to evaluate its project selection methodology through an equity lens. The project’s objective was to determine if its Better Buses projects are equitably distributed and assess whether DOT could do more to reach equity populations
