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Elective CoursesJanuary 2026 EXEC-GP 2113 Building Effective Teams - Advanced Strategies Spring 2026 ( Grid View ) EXEC-GP 2170 Performance Measurement & Management EXEC-GP 2430 Cross-Sector Collaborations EXEC-GP 2413 Strategic Philanthropy Fall 2026 ( Grid View ) …
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The Institute for Urban Family HealthThe Institute for Urban Family Health is a not-for-profit health care organization whose mission is to improve the quality and availability of family practice services in response to the needs of medically underserved populations. The resident was …
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Institute for Urban Family HealthThe Institute for Urban Family Health is a not-for-profit health care organization whose mission is to provide quality health care for urban populations. Led by the Institute for Urban Family Health and several community-based organizations and faith …
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Auto-Assignment and Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care (MMMC) in New York CityAuto-Assignment of individuals into Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care (MMMC) plans is sometimes cited as an indication of poor education and outreach efforts. The Capstone team investigated, via literature and key informant review, the utility of …
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Enrolling Children in Public Insurance: SCHIP, Medicaid, and State ImplementationThe Balanced Budget Act of 1997 established federal grants to the states to create the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This presented the states with a number of implementation choices concerning administrative models for the new …
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ReEvaluating Program and Organizational Focus and its Coherence with Current Trends in the Nonprofit Environment"Following an almost 100 year existence, the Near East Foundation (NEF) is at a pivotal point in reassessing its place among nonprofit organizations in a similar market. NEF's programs consist mainly of agriculture, education, health care and income …
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The Impact of the Centro Educativo Ixtlyollotl on the State of Puebla, MexicoThe Capstone team measured the impact of the Centro Educativo Ixtlyollotl (CEI) on the indigenous communities of Puebla. CEI is a non-governmental organization dedicated to developing the indigenous communities of Puebla, through formal and informal …
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The Impact of the Centro Educativo Ixtlyollotl on the State of Puebla, MexicoThe Capstone team measured the impact of the Centro Educativo Ixtlyollotl (CEI) on the indigenous communities of Puebla. CEI is a non-governmental organization dedicated to developing the indigenous communities of Puebla, through formal and informal …
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SHAPING A CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN NEW YORK CITY’S FOOD SYSTEMThink Food is a social enterprise that aims to create a circular economy in the food system of NYC by providing an affordable and convenient waste collection service for small and mid-sized Chinese restaurant owners. The Capstone team identified three …
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Long-term associations of homelessness with children’s well-beingTo analyze long-term consequences of homelessness, the authors compared 388 formerly homeless children 55 months after shelter entry with 382 housed peers, birth to 17, using mother- and child-reported health, mental health, community involvement, …
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Developing a Model of Adaptive Reuse in Jackson, MississippiThe Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) is a nonprofit, public interest law firm that collaborates with communities to promote justice in the areas of housing, health, education, economic security, and disaster recovery. MCJ engaged a Capstone team in …
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"Understanding Decentralization in Political and Institutional Context: Motives, Opportunities and Constraints ""The World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PRMPS) group has done considerable work on public sector decentralization and has recently become interested in exploring the historical, political, and institutional context in which …
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A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse ItThe federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called “the true test” of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to …
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GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION STRATEGYPro Mujer supports low-income women in five Latin American countries by providing access to financial services, preventive health services, and education and business training. The organization aims to address the detrimental and pervasive effects of …
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Using cross-curricular, problem-based learning to promote understanding of poverty in urban communitiesThis article describes the use of problem-based learning to teach students about the scope and consequences of urban poverty through an innovative cross-curricular project. We illustrate the process, goals, and tasks of the Community Assessment Project, …
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Rethinking Poverty, Household Finance, and MicrofinanceHigh-frequency data show that the material condition of poverty is created by the interaction of insufficiency × instability × illiquidity. Reducing instability and/or illiquidity can thus reduce exposure to poverty even when average earning power …
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Your Alumni News for September 2018Dear Alumni, Happy first week of fall! I’m excited to introduce myself as the new Director of Alumni Relations at NYU Wagner. For the past four years, I’ve been a proud member of the Wagner community as Assistant Director with the Office of Career …
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NYU Wagner Professor Tatiana Homonoff Named to APPAM Policy CouncilAssociate Professor Tatiana Homonoff of NYU Wagner has been elected to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Policy Council. Homonoff is one of four newly elected representatives and will serve as the “Researcher in an Academic …
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WagTalks: Presidential Policy — Dean Glied on Healthcare CoverageHere at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, we are fortunate to have an esteemed faculty of experts whose knowledge spans timely and relevant topics across public service focus areas. As we all seek to navigate the policies of the …
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The Organization of Exposure to Violence Among Urban Adolescents: Clinical, Prevention, and Research ImplicationsProviding the latest research on effective prevention and intervention strategies for reducing youth violence, Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy is a comprehensive resource for dealing with both perpetrators and victims of …
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Research from Professor Laura Wherry among 10 most-read articles in Health Affairs in 2023A peer-reviewed article coauthored by Laura R. Wherry, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Service, was among the ten most-read research pieces published in 2023 in Health Affairs, a leading publication of health policy research.The article, …
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Sociodemographic and Behavioral Characteristics of HIV Antibody-Positive Blood DonorsThis paper describes the sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics of 173 blood donors who were confirmed by Western blot tests to have antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the etiologic agent for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome …
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Nonprofit and For Profit Partnerships: Rationale and Challenges of Cross-Sector ContractingIncreasingly, nonprofit, for-profits, and public organizations have been cooperating in producing and distributing a wide range of goods and services. In many cases, the partnerships have arisen from the recognition that different activities are best …