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Evaluation of mission, vision, and current organizational infrastructureFounded 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, …
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of UncertaintyThe ideal of the American Dream seems increasingly out of reach, even for many families who are trying to do everything right. To find out why, Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider followed 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigated a year of …
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Spotlight Archives… more embracing world in which love manifests itself in the form of giving, helping, opening doors, welcoming newcomers … book that speaks to this idea of love as a verb in the form of giving, helping, including opening doors, listening. … supported fugitive slave laws but resisted any other form of federal authority over mobility across and within …
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Distinguishing Good Schools from Bad in Principle and Practice: A Comparison of Four MethodsFor over a decade, perhaps no other issue in education has generated the same level of debate and policy activity as school accountability. At their most basic, accountability policies tie school rewards and sanctions to measures of school performance, …
Stories
Event Summary: From Urban Decay to Urban AgricultureBy Ariel Bernstein (NYU Steinhardt, Food Studies) and Mikeala Sparks (MUP, International Development) The Wagner Food Policy Alliance (WFPA) recently hosted “From Urban Decay to Urban Agriculture,” an event co-sponsored by the Urban Planning Student …
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Health Improvements in BRIC Cities: Moscow, São Paulo, and Shanghai, 2000–10… large reductions in chronic cardiovascular diseases in the form of IHD and stroke, but they remain the leading causes of …
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Health Improvements in BRIC Cities: Moscow, São Paulo, and Shanghai, 2000–10… large reductions in chronic cardiovascular diseases in the form of IHD and stroke, but they remain the leading causes of …
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Commencement & Convocation FAQ… be directed back to the rest of this Convocation Tickets form once you have completed the necessary steps. 4. Do I and … limitations? Yes. Please indicate on the Ticket Request Form if you need ADA accessibility for your guest(s). 6. …
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To become a better writer, it’s the thought that counts… Blaylock to teach his four-week module. Interestingly, the form that Blaylock teaches in his workshop is the op-ed, a … students. If they give it enough time, they can master the form: drive home an argument, offer evidence, acknowledge …
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Social Hierarchy: The Self-Reinforcing Nature of Power and StatusHierarchy is such a defining and pervasive feature of organizations that its forms and basic functions are often taken for granted in organizational research. In this review, we revisit some basic psychological and sociological elements of hierarchy and …
Alumni In Action
Adrian Untermyer… doing today? Wagner taught me how to communicate in every form and equipped me with the skills I needed to present …
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When is ATE Enough? Rules of Thumb and Decision Analysis in Evaluating Training Programs… Second, under more restrictive parametric and functional form assumptions, the paper develops intuitive …
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Searching for Social Entrepreneurs… reduces the population of entrepreneurs who might form the basis for the kind of evidence-based, large-sample, …
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28th Annual Kovner-Behrman Health ForumOn Thursday, April 10, NYU Wagner hosted the 28th Annual Kovner-Behrman Health Forum. Moderated by Dean Sherry Glied, the panel featured experienced health leaders Pamela Brier, former president and CEO of Maimonides Medical Center; Jeanne Lambrew, …
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The centre cannot hold: Arrival, margins, and the politics of ambivalence introduction to ‘arrival at the margins’, a special issue of migration studiesThis special issue calls on scholars to simultaneously centre and unsettle the margin: to recognise the multiplicity of margins as politically generative spaces, frequently contoured by sustained and varied forms of mobility. Taken together, the studies …
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Highlights from the Class of 2024 ConvocationIn the storied theater of the New York City Center, graduates, loved ones, faculty, staff, and administrators gathered to celebrate at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Convocation ceremony on Thursday, May 16. The ceremony honored …
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NYU Wagner Graduates Gather in New E 17th Street Home for AlumNite 2025On June 12, 2025, NYU Wagner hosted AlumNite—the first time this celebration and fundraiser was hosted in its new home on East 17th Street—welcoming graduates ranging from the Classes of 1976 to 2025. Following a reception for the Host Committee …
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From Humanitarian Assistance to Human DevelopmentCivil, political and military conflict--Natural and man-made disasters--Poverty and human suffering...As the new millennium approaches, the need for humanitarian assistance in response to these global challenges endures. Complex humanitarian emergencies …
Capstone Projects
2004 DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN REZONING… New York City agencies that serve as the most local form of representative government. In 2004, the New York City …
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Alec Schierenbeck Discusses Affordable Housing in NYC at 2025 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy ForumOn October 16, 2025, NYU Wagner hosted its annual Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum featuring guest speaker Alec Schierenbeck, executive director of the Charter Revision Commission and general counsel for the Department of City Planning. Wagner’s Main …
Capstone Projects
Building Public Art into Business Improvement Districts? Menu of Services… owners and commercial tenants have the opportunity to form a Business Improvement District (BID), a public-private …
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Nonprofit Financial Accountability: Does Self-Regulation Work?… is either self-submitted or retrieved from the IRS Form 990 that all nonprofits above a certain production level …
Alumni In Action
Alice Cheng… methods, and present my credit opinions in the form of credit rating reports to investors and other …