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NYU Wagner Course Brings Public Policy Education to Iconic New York Institutions… walls to learn directly from professionals at some of the city's most significant institutions. The course, … including Bloomberg Associates, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the British Consulate General. In a rare … 2001, gaining first-hand insights into the operations of global financial markets. "Normally, students would have …
Capstone Projects
Risk analysis for land sector anti-corruption interventions in Africa… government, business, civil society, and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. Worldwide, one in five people report that they … a Capstone team to create a risk analysis tool for use in planning and implementing its anti-corruption land …
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Community Connections Program Evaluation… To improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Community Connections program, World Learning, a … intensive three week professional trainings in a variety of sectors offering participants an opportunity to learn both … experience, professional development sessions, and the use of information technology. Through research instruments, …
Capstone Projects
Hunger Matters: A Short-Term Fundraising Plan… people suffering from hunger and malnutrition as a result of natural disaster, war, or other political complexities. … needs in order to develop effective solutions. As part of this initiative, team members reviewed and revised the …
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Evaluating Interventions for Managing Inclusive Urban Growth… The Independent Evaluation Group is a branch of the World Bank that evaluates the organization’s project portfolio. It focuses on the effectiveness of instruments used by the World Bank to enhance its clients’ … The tools, which focus on housing, slum upgrading, land use planning, land management, and land development, will be …
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Staff Training Curriculum: Substance Use/Abuse Prevention Among Youth in Congregate Care… and public awareness for the treatment and prevention of child abuse. The New York Foundling continues to … and future development. This includes gaining knowledge of demographic and etiological factors that may affect youths drug and alcohol use, particularly those in foster care. With these objectives …
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Staff Training Curriculum: Substance Use/Abuse Prevention Among Youth in Congregate Care… and public awareness for the treatment and prevention of child abuse. The New York Foundling continues to … and future development. This includes gaining knowledge of demographic and etiological factors that may affect youths drug and alcohol use, particularly those in foster care. With these objectives …
Capstone Projects
EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE NYS EVICTION MORATORIUM ON COVID-19 INFECTIONS… and commercial evictions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 by ensuring people could remain in their homes … displacement. The Capstone team examined the effectiveness of the eviction moratorium in mitigating the spread of the virus in NYC by using publicly available data on the …
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SUCCESSFUL ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEWLY-FORMED NONPROFIT… interdisciplinary research included an academic review of current literature, as well as an environmental scan of best practices used across the sector and by client peers. … field research—through staff engagement in a series of one-on-one interviews and custom surveys—to assess the …
Capstone Projects
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF PROCUREMENT MODERNIZATION IN INDONESIA… 2012, the Indonesian government and the local affiliate of MCC have embarked on an ambitious Procurement … RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF PROCUREMENT MODERNIZATION IN INDONESIA …
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NYU Tandon and Wagner project to look below the surface to make NYC more resilient… safety. Debra Laefer , Professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering , and Rae Zimmerman , Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Planning and Public Administration at NYU Wagner, have …
Capstone Projects
Evaluating Project Effectiveness of the Healthy Villages Initiative… health and sustainable development in rural communities of the Iganga district in southeast Uganda, through their … draw on local knowledge and maximize community ownership of public health and development solutions. UVP engaged the … team traveled to Uganda to observe training on survey tool use and conduct field interviews with UVP staff, survey …
Capstone Projects
CRAWFORD PARK IMPROVEMENTS… Town of Rye is located in Westchester County and comprises the Villages of Port Chester, Rye Brook, and the Rye Neck section of the Village of Mamaroneck. The Town’s administration … TOWN OF RYE …
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Open NYU: Crowdsourcing… crowdsourcing team researched ways in which organizations use crowdsourcing to make smarter decisions. This … The team also used the research to write a series of case studies housed on the GovLab Wiki, launched this year … extensive information available on crowdsourcing. The goal of the tool is to provide an easy and accessible way for …
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Increasing Patient Portal Usage and Identifying Best Practices… The William F. Ryan Community Health Network is a family of nonprofit, federallyqualified health centers that deliver … documentation regulations and increased requirements to use electronic health records for patient recordkeeping, the … recommendations based on best practices to improve the use of an online patient portal, which provides access to key …
Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Eboné Carrington (MPA-HPAM 2004)… “I finished Wagner better equipped to lead, not because of years of experience, but the quality of experience and education,” says Eboné Carrington (MPA-HPAM … I served as incident commander during waves I and II of the COVID-19 pandemic and was the architect and …
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Media Attention and the Demise of Agency Independence: Evidence from a Mass Administrative Reorganization in Britain… to the agencies, making the government pay the cost of public attention generated by the actors within the issue … using a unique dataset from a recent mass reorganization of independent agencies in Britain as well as data capturing … subject to termination experience reductions in the number of media coverage in major newspapers, disappearing from …
Capstone Projects
DEVELOPING CURRICULUM MODULES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL LEARNING… Founded in 1966 on the campus of Duke University, the Duke Lemur Center (DLC) is a world leader in the study, care, and protection of lemurs—among earth’s most threatened group of mammals. … through the DLC educators’ portal, promoting widespread use and availability. …
Publication
Engaging interdisciplinary innovation teams in Federally Qualified Health Centers… used to overcome these barriers. Our 20-month study of two FQHC innovation teams provides one of the first accounts of how practices that sustained worker engagement in …
Stories
Prioritizing the Protection of Vulnerable Populations in California, Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, and New York… to second-grade and sixth-grade students in Nablus, one of the most populated towns of the West Bank. She taught at the first and only bilingual … Egyptian NGO serving mostly African refugees. As the head of capacity and livelihoods, she hired, built, and trained …
Capstone Projects
Measuring Civic Engagement Programs for Youth… organizations to assess the impact and effectiveness of their high school-level civics programs, to assess the most valuable evaluation metrics, and to use those findings to identify the most effective civics … in the region. The team researched and compared dozens of programs and their evaluation methods, conducting …
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Game-Changing Economic Development in Newburgh, NY… led by low-income people working to improve the lives of poor communities in Harlem, Newburgh, and Poughkeepsie, …
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From Highway to Greenway: A community-focused analysis of four plans affecting Sunset Park… and increasing green space to improve the health of its community. The Capstone team examined the impacts of four proposed plans in Sunset Park: the Bush Terminal … physical conflicts, environmental impacts, and the ability of each plan to complement the neighborhood’s tradition of …
Capstone Projects
From Highway to Greenway: A community-focused analysis of four plans affecting Sunset Park… and increasing green space to improve the health of its community. The Capstone team examined the impacts of four proposed plans in Sunset Park: the Bush Terminal … physical conflicts, environmental impacts, and the ability of each plan to complement the neighborhood’s tradition of …