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A Port Authority That WorksThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been a vital force in the physical and economic growth of the New York-New Jersey region. During the past few years, however, public attention has focused on the Port Authority’s spending, management, …
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New York University School of Medicine, Department of MedicineThe Resident worked on several projects with the Administrator of the Department of Medicine, as well as with Administrators of the various Divisions within the department. The Resident created monthly financial reports of the various Faculty Group …
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Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-PresbyterianThe Resident identified areas of interest and organizational need and took on various projects working with the Vice-President of Operations, the Director of Marketing, the IT Site Director, Patient Care Directors and the Director of Support Services. …
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Telephone care coordination for smokers in VA Mental Health clinics: a hybrid implementation and clinical effectiveness trialBackground This paper describes an innovative protocol for a type-II hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial that is evaluating a smoking cessation telephone care coordination program for Veterans Health Administration (VA) mental-health clinic …
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Greening InitiativeThe 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 …
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Mentoring Immigrant Youth"Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City (BBBS) Center for Training and Professional Development engaged the Capstone team to conduct research on the needs and challenges of the immigrant youth population in the New York City region. In order to gather …
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Measuring Client SatisfactionThe Legal Aid Society of New York has been providing legal counsel and representation to those that can not afford to pay for legal services since 1876. Donations are the primary source of funding to acquire and sustain resources to provide these services …
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Implementing Youth Development Outcomes within Not-for-Profit Agencies in New York CityThe Capstone Team has worked with the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to identify strategies, challenges and benefits of developing and implementing a youth development outcomes tracking system. The Capstone team …
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Urban Mobility in the 21st CenturyBetween 2010 and 2050, the number of people living in the world’s urban areas is expected to grow by 80 percent – from 3.5 billion to 6.3 billion. This growth will pose great challenges for urban mobility – for the networks of transportation facilities …
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Patient Acuity SystemsThe Capstone team formulated two research questions to assess the extent to which the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) was utilizing evidence-based nursing sensitive patient acuity measures to manage nurse staffing: what are the current NYPH …
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Buprenorphine Treatment Services in the 50 States and the District of Columbia: Lessons for New York CityIn October 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug, buprenorphine, for the treatment of opiate dependence. This drugs approval created a path to dramatically change the way opiate addicts are able to manage their addiction. …
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Buprenorphine Treatment Services in the 50 States and the District of Columbia: Lessons for New York CityIn October 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug, buprenorphine, for the treatment of opiate dependence. This drugs approval created a path to dramatically change the way opiate addicts are able to manage their addiction. …
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Analysis of the Current Print Media Coverage of Domestic Violence in the New York State AreaMedia coverage of domestic violence cases has long been a source of concern for those who work to end domestic violence. In order to make stories attractive to readers, it is not unusual for cases to be sensationalized by reporters who have a limited …
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Evaluation Plan for Youth Development Training CenterBig Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of New York asked a Capstone team to create an evaluation plan for three of its Training Center's programs: Professional Development Workshop Series, Borough Mentoring Networks, and Technical Assistance. In order to do …
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Strategies for Improving Inpatient SatisfactionThe Veterans Health Administration is the branch of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that delivers healthcare to veterans and their families. The Capstone team worked with VA New York Harbor Healthcare System (NYHHS) to assess how the organization …
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The State of New York State: Parent Education Programs for AtRisk FamiliesThe Office of Children and Family Services serves New York by promoting the safety and wellbeing of children, families, and communities within the State. The purpose of this Capstone project was to look comprehensively at parent education programs …
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Low-Cost Energy Conservation Programfor New York City Government: A Feasibility StudyNew York City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) annually purchases over $500 million in electricity, steam, and natural gas on behalf of city agencies and public institutions. In an effort to reduce energy consumption and lower the …
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Low-Cost Energy Conservation Programfor New York City Government: A Feasibility StudyNew York City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) annually purchases over $500 million in electricity, steam, and natural gas on behalf of city agencies and public institutions. In an effort to reduce energy consumption and lower the …
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Shaping the Policy Agenda to Include Alternatives to Military Solutions to Al-Qaeda TerrorismIt 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 …
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ANALYZING SUBNATIONAL GOVERNANCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICIES IN MEXICOThe World Bank Group’s Governance Global Practice supports client countries by helping them build capable, efficient, transparent, inclusive, and accountable institutions with the aim of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. To …
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The blind leading: Power reduces awareness of constraintsPrevious research has found that power increases awareness of goal-relevant over goal-irrelevant information. However, this work has failed to distinguish between goal-facilitating and goal-inhibiting information, both of which are goal relevant. The …
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Paul Light and Paul Volcker Explore Federal Government "Breakdowns"Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service Paul Light of NYU Wagner released on December 11 an issue paper he wrote on the “cascade” of Federal government breakdowns and what can be done about it. He appeared with former Federal Reserve Board Chairman …
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Reversal of Fortunes: Low Income Neighborhoods in the 1990sThis paper offers new empirical evidence about the prospects of lower-income, US urban neighbourhoods during the 1990s. Using the Neighborhood Change Database, which offers a balanced panel of census tracts with consistent boundaries from 1970 to 2000 for …
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The Spiral of Nonprofit ExcellenceThis article is adapted from a new book by Paul Light entitled Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It, published in 2004 by the Brookings Institution Press. Imagine a nonprofit's life as a journey …