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Redesigning Job Descriptions to Promote Stronger Performance Measurement and Management… training, and the emotional support needed for them to lead happy, healthy, and successful lives. In addition to …
Publication
What Can We Learn from Impact Assessments?This chapter introduces the basics of quantitative impact assessments. The context is microinsurance, but the lessons apply more broadly. The chapter covers seletion bias, control groups, randomization, statistical power, internal validity, and external …
Capstone Projects
Evaluation Report of American Humanics and the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition… Its mission is to educate professionals to strengthen and lead nonprofit organizations. American Humanics Initiative …
Capstone Projects
The affordable care act and the cost of uncompensated care… Care Act (ACA), signed into law in 2010, would presumably lead to reductions in uncompensated costs by expanding health …
News
Prof. Maloney named Secretary of European network on cultural management and policyThe recently elected Board of Directors of ENCATC, the leading European network on cultural management and policy, gathered for the first time on Dec. 1, and at this meeting, in Brussels, NYU Wagner Affiliated Professor Richard Maloney was appointed as …
Capstone Projects
Expanding Outreach and Impact at a New York City Nonprofit Organization… of helping them become wellinformed adults who choose to lead lives committed to transmitting Jewish values to the …
Capstone Projects
Anti-Corruption Impact Monitoring in the East Asia and Pacific RegionThe World Bank supports a broad range of activities to reduce corruption in the East Asia and Pacific Region. While it has made significant investments, it has limited information about the extent of their impact on corruption levels in Bank-supported …
Capstone Projects
Anti-Corruption Impact Monitoring in the East Asia and Pacific RegionThe World Bank supports a broad range of activities to reduce corruption in the East Asia and Pacific Region. While it has made significant investments, it has limited information about the extent of their impact on corruption levels in Bank-supported …
Capstone Projects
Improving HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy Development and Implementation at Indian BPO Firms… BPO employees to engage in high-risk behavior that can lead to an increase HIV/AIDS transmission. Due to the immense …
Alumni In Action
Yusef FreemanHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? Being in New York, I was able to learn how municipal government worked in the largest city in the country while interning in both the Mayor's Office and City Council. I also got my start in the …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Performance Measurement FrameworkTimes Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, presents leading contemporary art and performances to Times Square’s 400,000 daily visitors; cultivating the creativity, energy, and edge that has made Times Square a national icon. …
Publication
Action Learning, Fragmentation and the Interaction of Single, Double, and Triple Loop Change: A Case of Gay and Lesbian Workplace AdvocacyProposes an elaborated action-learning framework that decomposes action-learning method into the three components of argument, practice, and outcome. Illumination of multiple facets of change; Analysis of the interaction of the three methods in …
News
NYU Wagner Alumni Recognized as 2025 Black Trailblazers City & State ’s 2025 Black Trailblazers list recognizes influential Black leaders who are shaping New York’s political, social, and economic landscape. This year’s honorees include two NYU Wagner alumni whose work in public service and advocacy …
News
NYU Tandon and Wagner project to look below the surface to make NYC more resilient… the DUMBO Business Improvement District Mark Baldovin, gas lead, Con Edison David LaShell, manager for New York, ESRI …
Publication
Over-the-counter hearing aids: What will it mean for older AmericansIn October 2021 the Food and Drug Administration released draft rules creating a new class of hearing aids to be sold over the counter. Since Medicare does not cover hearing aids, the ready availability of low-cost aids is potentially good news for the …
News
Wagner Consulting Group Hosts Consulting Bootcamp with Cristian Ariza (MPA-HPAM 2018)Written by the Wagner Consulting Group Board, Karishma Patel (President), and Difa Farzani (First-Year Representative). In November, the NYU Wagner Consulting Group (WCG) hosted an in-person, interactive Case Study Bootcamp featuring guest speaker …
Video
How to Be An Effective Activist: A Training on Nonviolent ActionThe history of democracy in the US and abroad is in large part a history of popular protest—from the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ activism, or the Tea Party movement in the US to the ousting of dictators around the world. Despite the centrality of protest …
Publication
Providing hearing assistance to veterans in the emergency department: A qualitative studyDickson VV, J Blustein, B Weinstein, SE Sherman, J Smilowitz, and J Chodosh …
Publication
Not so Fast: The Realities of Impact InvestingAt the beginning of 2010, the Indian microfinance sector was a hotspot for impact investors. The promise of impact investing could be seen in the number of investors lining up to participate in the IPO of SKS Microfinance. SKS had ballooned from 603,000 …
Stories
Debates of the Century @ NYU Wagner: “New York City should implement congestion pricing”By Gretha Suarez (MUP) and Aldana Vales (Journalism-Studio 20) On Wednesday, February 26, 2019, NYU Wagner and The Century Foundation hosted the eleventh Debates of the Century on whether New York City should implement congestion pricing to tackle the …
News
NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) Makes Its First InvestmentThe student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its first investment with a $30,000 investment in Sapient Industries , whose mission is to eliminate waste from our electrical grid using machine learning. Sapient Industries …
Course
PADM-GP.2201
Institutions, Governance, and International DevelopmentThis course introduces the theory and practice of institutional reform in developing and transitional countries. It reviews the evolution of international development paradigms, examining how the role, structure, and management of institutions, the public …Doctoral Student
Daniel Broid… change and innovation within the public sector can lead to better, more equitable public services. His current …
Alumni In Action
Katherine LynchCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I am a member of the executive team, leading our organizational capacity to deliver impact. I manage governance and management processes that analyse, improve and demonstrate our effectiveness; ensure …