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Alternative Financing Model for New Childcare SiteSunset Bay Community Services (SBCS) provides early childcare options for Sunset Park, a Brooklyn neighborhood with the highest birth rate in New York City and mainly comprised of new immigrants. SBCS is currently looking to open additional childcare …
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Supporting and Preventing Homelessness among the Elderly in the South BronxThe Partnership for the Homeless develops programs and initiatives to eliminate the root causes of homelessness and provide support for homeless individuals. To address the prevention of homelessness among the elderly in the South Bronx, the Partnership …
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Preksha JainPreksha is a doctoral student in Public Policy at NYU Wagner. Her research interests lie at the intersection of development economics and labor economics, particularly in the role that technology and digital platforms play in labor force participation and …
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The Organizational Performance Initiative… the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress and the Smith Richardson Foundation, this project will ask how … Project Funded by the Carnegie Corporation and the Smith Richardson Foundations, this project is designed to …
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health: A View from the South BronxThis study seeks to understand the perspective of Black and Hispanic/Latino residents of the South Bronx, New York, on the causes of persistent racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes. In particular, it focuses on how people who live in this …
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Reports… Safety and Health , (co-authors Jane Flanagan and Patricia Smith), Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and National …
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Reuse of Rockaway Coast Guard Station SiteThe former Rockaway Coast Guard Station site occupies a prime location at the foot of the Marine Parkway Bridge and close to world famous Riis Beach. The Capstone team identified ways of adaptively reusing the historic station, and developed financial …
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Reuse of Rockaway Coast Guard Station SiteThe former Rockaway Coast Guard Station site occupies a prime location at the foot of the Marine Parkway Bridge and close to world famous Riis Beach. The Capstone team identified ways of adaptively reusing the historic station, and developed financial …
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Spotlight ArchivesInterviews with authors of new books on migration and mobility … October 2024 Spotlight Laura Assanmal interviews Fabienne Doucet about her book El Amor Siempre Gana/Love is Still Winning (Lil’ Libros 2024) About the author Fabienne Doucet takes an …
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"Unpredictability, risks, and uncertainty for the working classes: Developments from South to North"Jonathan Morduch [Interview] … "Unpredictability, risks, and uncertainty for the working classes: Developments from South to North" …
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Student Spotlight: Sita Goetschius (MPA 2023)Serving as the engagement director for the Wagner Diversity Council (WDC), Sita works to ensure that all students feel welcome and foster opportunities for intentional discourse, practice, and action around diversity and inclusion. What motivated you to …
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Promoting Sustainable Urban Land Use, Governance, and Service Provision in Ho Chi Minh CityThe Capstone team was engaged to identify best practice examples in East and South Asia, and develop in-depth case studies to address metropolitan and regional strategic planning in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. The team reviewed academic and …
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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus John M. Capozzola… Professor Capozzola is survived by three daughters—Meg Smith of Chatham, N.J., Joan Sterlucci of Madison, N.J., and …
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Contextualism and Developmental Psychopathology… Egeland, & Kreutzer, 1990), and Esther Thelen and Linda Smith (1994), theorists have called attention to the …
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Sherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner, Receives High Distinction for Health Services Research… University Press in 2006. She is co-editor, with Peter C. Smith, of The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics , which was …
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New insights into food safety research teams… Reza Sattari, Julia Lane, Jason Owen-Smith … New insights into food safety research teams …
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North-South Knowledge Sharing on Incentive-based Conditional Cash Transfer ProgramsOver the last decade, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become one of the most widely adopted anti-poverty initiatives in the developing world. Inspired particularly by Mexico's successful program, CCTs are viewed as an effective way to …
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Investigating Formal Mechanisms of Civic Engagement in Ghana, India, and South AfricaGuided by the theory that public participation, when formalized within legislative bodies, contributes toward greater transparency, accountability and overall improvement in public service delivery, UNDESA asked the team to initiate what is envisioned to …
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Failure vs. Displacement: Why an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program Showed no Net Impact in South IndiaWe analyze a randomized trial of an innovative anti-poverty program in South India, part of a series of pilot programs that provide “ultra-poor” households with inputs to create new, sustainable livelihoods (often tending livestock). In contrast with …
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Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts and Practices… Saleha B. Khumawala, Thad D. Calabrese, and Daniel L. Smith … Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts …
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New Staff Resources… with their name and department unit listed (i.e. John Smith, Office of Admissions). These are often used at …
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Restructuring Local Government Finance in Developing Countries: Lessons from South AfricaExamining cutting-edge issues of international relevance in the ongoing redesign of the South African local government fiscal system, the contributors to this volume analyze the major changes that have taken place since the demise of apartheid. The 1996 …
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Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations… management in practice. … Steven A. Finkler, Daniel L. Smith, Thad D. Calabrese, and Robert M. Purtell … Financial …
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Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts and Practices… H., Saleha B. Khumawala, Thad D. Calabrese, and Daniel L. Smith … Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts …