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Your Alumni News for July 2017… his work on development projects with the Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency. Imani Henry (EMPA 2013) was quoted … Fellowship, which promotes the next generation of urban leaders. Robert Joseph (MUP 2017) received the 2017 Student Award for Urban Planning Excellence from the APA’s New York Metro …
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Furman Center Receives MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective InstitutionsThe Furman Center's impactful research works to improve cities through rigorous research and data analysis. …
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Affordable Housing Finance in Uganda… sustaining access to affordable housing in both rural and urban settings. …
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Managing Diversity in Civil Service: A Conceptual Framework for Public Organizations.In this paper I explore the managerial challenges posed by diversity in addressing traditional and new requirements for effective performance in public organizations. I survey the core dimensions, concepts and approaches to diversity in reference to …
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MUP News & Events… Wagner Planner is an independent student newsletter of the Urban Planning Students Association (UPSA) at NYU Wagner. It … The Wagner Planner View the Spring 2016 Issue of the Urban Planning Newsletter, The Wagner Planner You will need …
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Nonprofits as “Schools of Democracy”: A Comparative Case Study of Two Environmental OrganizationsThis article presents a comparative case study of two nonprofit organizations that do community organizing in the environmental field and asks how do nonprofits school citizens in democracy? Although the literature suggests the importance of social …
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Student Spotlight: Alexander Yu (MUP 2025)… business at a basic level. And after thinking back to an Urban Politics class I took during my undergraduate degree— … conducting my own research—I was attracted to the field of urban planning and public service to address this issue. I …
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Wagner Scholarship Fund… United Nations. New York City represents an unparalleled urban laboratory for our students; New York City also has one …
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Learning from Diversity: A Comparison of Non-Profit and For-Profit OrganizationsNon-profit and for-profit organizations are both engaging with the opportunities and challenges of a demographically diverse workforce. However, their different missions, structures and constituencies can result in varied approaches to addressing …
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Charles Burton… New York City would be the best place to learn about urban planning, and it was. I’m also a veteran, and I came to … and professional development opportunities. Learning about urban planning though, being in New York was a consistent … in cities. There’s no other place I’d want to learn about urban development and planning. I also like to focus on the …
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Creating a Next Generation Initiative Model for a Jewish Nonprofit Organization"The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the Jewish community's premier organization dedicated to rescue, relief, and renewal of Jewish communities abroad. As JDC is strategically planning for its organizational future, it requested a …
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Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate NaturallyAny organization can innovate once. The challenge is to innovate twice, thrice, and more?to make innovation a part of daily good practice. This book shows how nonprofit and government organizations can transform the single, occasional act of innovating …
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MISSION Framework: Market-Based Solutions for Social Impact… example of this process is the foundation’s own success in urban microfinance in India. In 2006, microfinance in India … potential in adapting the group lending model to an urban context, and was one of the first investors to take a … and consulting firm, to conduct a market analysis of the urban microfinance market. The results were clear: Indian …
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NYU Tandon School of Engineering… If you're interested in taking a course at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) , email Peter Huu Tran one …
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Testing Competing Capital Structure Theories of Nonprofit OrganizationsThe static trade-off and pecking order capital structure theories are analyzed and applied to nonprofit organizations. In addition, this paper also considers how nonprofits adjust their leverage over time. The analyses consider the unique role of …
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Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Evolving Approach in Accra… The IEG is currently evaluating the World Bank’s Urban Resilience Operations, focusing on how the World Bank …
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DESIGNING A SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM… a team to develop a method for assessing the impact of its Urban Assembly program in NYC, with the objective of creating …
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Global Partnerships and Key Issues in Immigrant Inclusion… cities around the world to drive innovation around modern urban challenges. With a focus on municipal immigration …
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Race, Poverty, and Federal Rental Housing Policy… and furthering integration through federal housing and urban development policy. It discusses HUD’s mixed success in …
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Centralization of Radical Prostatectomy in the United States… radical prostatectomy volume including teaching status, urban location, large bed size and ownership of a robot in … analysis the year, teaching status, large bed size, urban location and presence of a robot were associated with …
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Does the Structure and Composition of the Board Matter? The Case of Nonprofit OrganizationsThis article discusses some of the key differences in board behavior between nonprofit organizations and for-profit firms using a relatively new dataset from New York City nonprofits. We provide evidence on the broader role that nonprofit boards play for …
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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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Negotiating Accountability: Managerial Lessons from Identity-Based Nonprofit OrganizationsThis article explores the emerging conceptualization of accountability in nonprofit organizations. This definition broadens traditional concerns with finances, internal controls, and regulatory compliance. The authors explore how the top-level managers of …
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WagTalks: Presidential Policy — Migration and Immigration with Natasha Iskander… Natasha Iskander, the James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, discussing Trump’s …