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Understanding Segregation in the Year 2000Segregation: The Rising Costs for America documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century, and that continue today, have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant …
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Academic Achievement Among Formerly Homeless Adolescents and Their Continuously Housed PeersThis study examined the school experiences and academic achievement of 46 adolescents in families who experienced homelessness and 87 permanently housed adolescents whose families received public assistance. Measures taken after the homeless students were …
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Professor Rae Zimmerman Appointed to Third NYC Panel on Climate ChangeRae Zimmerman, Professor of Planning and Public Administration at NYU Wagner, has been appointed to the third New York City Panel on Climate Change, an independent entity advising the city that ensures that the city's resiliency efforts are informed by …
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COVID-19 Series: NYU Wagner Alumni in Action - Social ServicesThe “COVID-19 Series: NYU Wagner Alumni in Action” continued on Thursday, October 22 with its second event in a four-part series. Moderated again by Gordon Campbell, Clinical Professor of Public Service and Director of EMPA-Public Service Leaders Program, …
Capstone Projects
IMPACT OF SCHOOL REOPENINGS ON WORKING MOTHERS’ FINANCIAL DISTRESSSchool closures during the Covid-19 pandemic worsened employment outcomes for working mothers. Many working mothers decreased their total working hours in order to accommodate needed care, and childcare costs also increased. The Capstone team sought to …
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Student Spotlight: Annie NelsonCan you share a bit about yourself and what motivated you to attend a school of public service? While I have always wanted to work in the public sector, my passion for public service was solidified when I taught fifth grade at a public charter school in …
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David Bohnett Public Service FellowshipOVERVIEW The Bohnett Fellowship, sponsored by the David Bohnett Foundation, allows outstanding master's students the opportunity to engage in the challenges of governing at the city level. The Bohnett Fellowship Program provides a full tuition scholarship …
Capstone Projects
Defining Program Outcomes and Identifying Best Practices in Youth DevelopmentGirls Quest is a nonprofit organization in New York City that works with girls from low income families, offering programs that are designed to build academic and social competence. The organization works to achieve its mission by offering outdoor …
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New York City Public High Schools: School Characteristics and the Demand for Specialized ProgramsSchool choice is one of the most discussed, and most controversial, issues on today's school reform agenda. While most of the debate has focused on the public provision of education vouchers to cover tuition at private schools, many public school …
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CONNECTING RURAL-TO-URBAN MIGRANT WORKERS TO JOB OPPORTUNITIES China’s growing aging population and its removal of the one-child policy has led to a strong demand for housekeeping services, creating an opportunity for the millions of workers with limited education and skills who migrate from rural villages to cities. …
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Improving Nursing Information Dissemination Practice at NYPThe Capstone team worked with a leadership team from New York-Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital to examine the elements of the current transfer of information to nursing staff and to improve the current nursing information dissemination practice across all five …
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African Municipal Digital Radio Training Program: Kenya, Tanzania, and UgandaThe Capstone team developed a satellite radio-training course, comprised of five modules, aimed at citizens and local government authorities in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The modules will be broadcast in these countries with the intention of educating …
Capstone Projects
African Municipal Digital Radio Training Program: Kenya, Tanzania, and UgandaThe Capstone team developed a satellite radio-training course, comprised of five modules, aimed at citizens and local government authorities in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The modules will be broadcast in these countries with the intention of educating …
Capstone Projects
Partners In Caring, A Synagogue-Federation-Agency CollaborationThe Capstone team evaluated the Partners In Caring program (PiC), a grant that allows social workers to deliver counseling, group therapy, and educational workshops in a place Jews congregatethe synagogue. The grant was made by the federated body that …
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Gentrification in New York CityThe process of gentrification is composed of the physical improvements, demographic transformation, and socio-economic tensions and conflicts created within a community as new residents of higher income and education levels enter and settle in large …
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Organizational Capacity of Recycling Cooperatives in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThe Capstone team worked on the first phase of an international initiative, sponsored by United Towns Organization (UTO), to promote recycling activities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Small cooperatives organize unskilled scavengers who collect recyclable …
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Supporting Priority Needs in Developing Local Government: Finance and Poverty Alleviation in East and Southern AfricaThe Municipal Development Program and World Bank Institute offer a course on Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform that aims to improve local government finance and provision of services through education and comparative review, with particular focus on poverty …
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Assisting HIVES in Developing a Continuous Quality Care Improvement PlanHIV Care Services, Public Health HIV Care Services (HIVCS) is a program of Solutions Public Health Solutions, whose mission is Assisting HIVCS in Developing a to manage federal and city funding for HIV Continuous Quality Care Improvement preventive, …
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Recycling in NYU Abu DhabiNew York University is developing a full scale campus in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi that will admit its first class of students in the fall of 2010. The development and operation of New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) will embody the values of New York …
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Pipeline Project EvaluationLegal Momentum works with career and technical education (CTE) high schools in New York City to improve the recruitment and retention of girls. Legal Momentum's Pipeline Project seeks to increase the number of middle school and high school aged girls in …
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Community Connections Program EvaluationTo improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Community Connections program, World Learning, a global nonprofit providing international educational programs, engaged a Capstone team to conduct a program evaluation. Community Connections provides …
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The Validity and Precision of the Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design: Three Within-Study ComparisonsWe explore the conditions under which short, comparative interrupted time-series (CITS) designs represent valid alternatives to randomized experiments in educational evaluations. To do so, we conduct three within-study comparisons, each of which uses a …
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Understanding and Measuring Endowment in Public CharitiesThis note delineates different motivations for holding endowment by nonprofits, analyzes the definitions and measurement of endowment in the literature, and details newly available data on endowment contained in the Form 990 since 2008. More than 43% of …
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Between the Market and State: Can Informal Insurance Patch the Safety Net?Examines use of informal insurance arrangements in households of low-income countries. Relationship between household consumption and income; Ways in dealing economic hardships; Systems of reciprocal transfers; Role of public policy in reducing economic …