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Development of Training Recommendations for Partner Organizations in PeruGlobal Goods Partners (GGP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating effective, income-generating opportunities for marginalized women and their communities through access to the consumer market for handmade and fair trade artisan crafts. …
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The Foreclosure Crisis and Community Development: Exploring the Foreclosed Stock in Hard-Hit NeighborhoodsSince the onset of the foreclosure crisis, many communities have faced a glut of properties that have completed the foreclosure process and are now owned by banks or other mortgage lenders. Policy-makers worry that large concentrations of these …
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Effectively Targeting Public Health Intervention The Local Government Unit of Libon (LGU) recently incorporated an electronic medical records system to better serve its constituents. The Capstone team was requested to provide recommendations for using this system to guide public health policy at the …
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Assessment of Freight Consolidation Methodologies in Midtown ManhattanNew York City Department of Transportation’s (NYCDOT) Office of Freight Mobility works to improve the efficiency and sustainability of freight movement throughout the City. A Capstone team was engaged to identify how consolidation centers can benefit the …
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Preparing Fiscal Operations for GrowthThe Capstone team worked with leadership and staff of Transitional Services for New York (TSINY), a nonprofit providing community based services to individuals with mental disabilities, to conduct a complete overview of the organization’s fiscal …
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Medicaid Redesign and Palladia’s Value PropositionThe Capstone team worked with Palladia to identify their unique value proposition as they negotiate business agreements with the major behavioral healthcare insurance companies covering Medicaid Managed Care enrollees in Harlem and the South Bronx. …
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Informing Strategic Decision-Making Through Sales and Staffing Data AnalysisHousing Works, a nonprofit dedicated to helping those affected by HIV/AIDS, operates Thrift Shops around the New York City area. Housing Works requested the Capstone team to analyze existing sales, staffing, and customer survey data in order to inform its …
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NYU Wagner Rises in U.S. News & World Report RankingsThe newly released U.S. News & World Report rankings of 271 public affairs and administration master’s programs in the nation offers welcome confirmation that NYU Wagner is on the rise. Ranked #9 among graduate schools of its type in the latest ordering, …
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Three NYU Wagner Alumni Named Trailblazers in Building and Real Estate by City & State In New York’s ever-changing landscape, City & State has selected its inaugural list of Trailblazers in Building and Real Estate , recognizing the leaders who are shaping the city and state. Notably, three NYU Wagner alumni were selected for the …
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FALL 2021 DEMOCRACY FELLOWSAaron Posner is an MPA-PNP candidate specializing in Advocacy and Political Action. He is a passionate advocate in issues around incarceration and immigration, and is a strong proponent of the power of organizing. Among other community organizing efforts, …
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Strategic Direction in Mission-Related Investing Confluence Philanthropy advances mission-aligned investing by supporting a community of 200 foundations, families, individual donors, and investment advisors committed to moving philanthropic assets towards mission-related investments. Confluence …
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Book Review: Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in AmericaAnthropologists are well-known for their tendency to think small (by focusing on local communities), engage in what Clifford Geertz (1973) called “thick description,” and grasp for broader insights and conclusions. In this respect, Mara Buchbinder’s …
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DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICES FOR TENANT ENGAGEMENT AND RIGHTS ADVOCACY IMPACCT Brooklyn, also known as the Pratt Area Community Council, is a community development corporation that owns over 1,000 units of affordable or supportive housing. Since 1964, IMPACCT Brooklyn has advocated for Central Brooklyn residents and …
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CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION IN MOMBASA, KENYAThe World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice works with partner countries to develop urbanization strategies that aim to reduce poverty while responding to climate change and promoting sustainable development. The Kenya Urban …
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Clayton GilletteClayton Gillette is the Director of NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management and the Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law at the NYU School of Law. Gillette teaches in the areas of local government law, commercial law, and contracts. As Director …
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Why Don't Housing Choice Voucher Recipients Live Near Better Schools? Insights from Experimental and Big Administrative DataHousing choice vouchers provide low-income households with additional income to spend on rental housing in the private market. The assistance vouchers provide is substantial, offering the potential to dramatically expand the neighborhoods—and associated …
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Preserving History or Restricting Development: The Heterogenous Effects of Historic Districts on Local Housing Markets in New York CitySince Brooklyn Heights was designated as New York City's first landmarked neighborhood in 1965, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated 120 historic neighborhoods in the city. This paper develops a theory in which landmarking has …
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Social Change Leadership PracticesErica Gabrielle Foldy, Laurie Goldman and Sonia Ospina. The Leadership Task of Prompting Cognitive Shifts: Shaping Perceptions of Issues and Constituencies to Achieve Public Service Goals. A practical five-page guide for nonprofit leaders. 2009. Dodge, J. …
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The Low Income Housing Tax Credit and Racial SegregationThis paper addresses a critical but almost unexamined aspect of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program — whether its use (and in particular, the siting of developments in high-poverty/high-minority neighborhoods), is associated with increased …
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Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial InequalityIn this paper, we consider neighborhood selection as a social process central to the reproduction of racial inequality in neighborhood attainment. We formulate a multilevel model that decomposes multiple sources of stability and change in longitudinal …
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Electricity Case: Main Report: Risk, Consequences, and Economic AccountingAs a critical infrastructure sector, electricity enables numerous other critical infrastructures to function, and in many cases is the critical path for their operation. This is underscored by the fact that historically, electric power outages have played …
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Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention: Using an Integrated Design to Evaluate a Comprehensive Citywide Health InitiativeThis article uses the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a 10-year effort to improve health and safety outcomes in distressed cities, to demonstrate the strength of an evaluation design that integrates …
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Small Schools, Large Districts: Small School Reform and New York City’s StudentsHigh school reform is currently at the top of the education policy making agenda after years of stagnant achievement and persistent racial and income test score gaps. Although a number of reforms offer some promise of improving U.S. high schools, small …
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Why Do Higher Income Households Move Into Low Income Neighborhoods: Pioneering or Thrift?This paper offers several hypotheses about which US higher-income households choose to move into low-income neighbourhoods and why. It first explores whether the probability that a household moves into a relatively low-income neighbourhood (an RLIN move) …