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Working Together: Meeting the Challenges of Workforce Diversity… Working Together: Meeting the Challenges of Workforce …
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Comparative Study of Back-To-Work and Aftercare ProgramsThe Soho Partnership operates under the auspices of ACE, the Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless. The Soho Partnership was established in 1992 to provide employment training and life skills-building to homeless men and women in …
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"Unpredictability, risks, and uncertainty for the working classes: Developments from South to North"… "Unpredictability, risks, and uncertainty for the working classes: Developments from South to North" …
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Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Cambodia… Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from …
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Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Cambodia… Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from …
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Building Bridges from Margins: The Work of Leadership in Social Change OrganizationsAttention to the relational dimensions of leadership represents a new frontier of leadership research and is an expression of the growing scholarly interest in the conditions that foster collective action within and across boundaries. This article …
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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Work Environments and Hospitalizations and ED Use among Chronically Ill Medicare BeneficiariesBackground : Nurse practitioners (NPs) play a critical role in delivering primary care, particularly to chronically ill elderly. Yet, many NPs practice in poor work environments which may affect patient outcomes. Objective : We investigated the …
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Chicago's Disposable-Bag Tax is Working, Study Finds… Chicago's Disposable-Bag Tax is Working, Study Finds …
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Street Vendors, Television Extras, Walmart Stockers, and More: Worker Subjectivity and Labor Processes in Atypical WorkThis essay reviews Enrique de la Garza Toledo’s anthology on atypical work, titled Trabajo no clásico, organización y acción colectiva (Vols. 1 & 2) and situates it within the larger tradition of Latin American sociology of work. It argues that the …
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The effect of housing wealth shocks on work and retirement decisionsUsing panel data from 2000 to 2012, we show that unanticipated zip code-level shocks to home values affect retirement, retirement reversals, and Social Security claims. Among older men, homeowners experiencing moderately negative housing price shocks are …
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Working Inside Out: Personal Development/Public Change… Working Inside Out: Personal Development/Public Change …
Capstone Projects
Nonprofit Financial Accountability: Does Self-Regulation Work?The mission of the Wise Giving Alliance (WGA), a national organization affiliated with the Better Business Bureau, is to monitor nonprofits that receive the majority of their funding from private contributions. Nonprofits are rated as passing or failing …
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Making Volunteers Work: Best Practices in Volunteer Management"MOUSE is a nonprofit organization that provides technological, leadership, and career readiness opportunities to underserved middle and high school students. The Capstone team was asked to assess MOUSE's organizational readiness and present …
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Dejian (Ken) Zeng Worked in an iPhone Factory in China to See How Workers Were Treated… student Dejian (Ken) Zeng (MPA 2017) spent his summer working undercover at an iPhone factory. Now he vows to hold …
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Wagner Career Services and International Student Society speak on the future of workOn February 3, 2023, the NYU Wagner Office of Career Services (OCS) partnered with the Wagner International Student Society (WISS) to host a networking lunch and workshop for Wagner students. Students from across NYU Wagner’s diverse degree programs …
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NYU Wagner Capstone Team works with alumna to improve education in Nicaragua coffee fields … students to stay in school and to prevent them from working in the coffee fields with their families. … Mery Arcila, and Carlos Sosa Lombardo—spent six months working with Project Alianza to create a logic model, … “This was an opportunity to reconnect with Wagner by working with Mery, Carlos, and Julia as they advise us on …
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Designing and Implementing a Program Measurement SystemNonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW) is a nonprofit organization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, focused on building management capacity and developing solutions for other nonprofit organizations. A small, but robust, organization in a period of growth, NEW …
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Re-creating Street Level Practice: The Role of Routines, Work Groups and Team LearningAmple research documents the ubiquity of routines in street-level practice. Some individual-level and organizational-level research has explored how to break street-level routines, but little has looked at the work group level. Our study observed teams of …
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An Evening with NYC Government: Wagner Alumni working in NYC Government Share Career Insights with Current Students… allowing Wagner students to connect with alumni currently working in New York City government. The event featured: … for more updates. Resources for those interested in working in NYC Government: American Society for Public … An Evening with NYC Government: Wagner Alumni working in NYC Government Share Career Insights with Current …
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A new methodology for assessing social work practice: The adaptation of the Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (SW-OSCE)The Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) methodology was originally developed to assess medical students. OSCE is a carefully scripted, standardized, simulated interview, in which students’ interactional skills are observed and assessed. Here …
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NYU Wagner alumnus Yusef Freeman is honored for his work in affordable housing finance… $56 million in tax credit equity. In 2010, he began working on the revitalization of the Alice Griffith public …