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EXPANDING SENTENCING MITIGATION PROGRAMSThe Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) is a nonprofit agency that provides research, training, and direct services in the fields of criminal and juvenile justice and related human services. Since 1981, CCA has worked with attorneys and courts to …
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Improving Process and Providing Measurement Tools for the Early Learning GroupChildren of Bellevue (COB) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to initiating, funding and developing special programs, and to acting as an advocate for children and their families within Bellevue Hospital Center. The Early Learning Group (ELG), a …
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Spatial Segmentation and the Black Middle ClassEthnographic studies of the black middle class focus attention on the ways in which residential environments condition the experiences of different segments of the black class structure. This study places these arguments in a larger demographic context by …
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Decentralization, Housing Provision, and Spatial Form in Cape TownThe Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a leading resource for key issues concerning the use, regulation, and taxation of land. The Institute engaged the Capstone team to build on a previously conducted overview assessment of metropolitan governance, …
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Physician Organization Concerns Regarding the 2010 Affordable Care ActCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, expressed interest in understanding the controversy among physician opinion and perception regarding the recently passed Patient …
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Where Are They Now? SAR Program Analysis & EvaluationScholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of institutions and individuals working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. Founded in 2001, SAR is now at an inflection point in both its scale and services. …
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US Market Entry Strategy and Capacity Building Agora Partnerships is a nonprofit organization that works to accelerate the success of early-stage entrepreneurs in Latin America who are committed to solving social and environmental challenges. Agora’s main programming is an Impact Accelerator designed …
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How to Show Success: Developing Performance Measures for Anti-Poverty ProgramsThe Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty (Met Council) is one of New York City’s largest human service agencies, providing thousands of New Yorkers with critical services and assistance in their fight against poverty. As part of an organizational effort …
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Home parking convenience, household car usage, and implications to residential parking policiesThis paper investigates the effect of home parking convenience on households' car usage, and the implications to residential parking policies. A random sample of 840 households is selected from a travel survey in the New York City region, and their home …
Alumni In Action
Katie LyonWhy did you choose NYU Wagner for graduate school? I remember when I went to Accepted Students Day before the semester started. I was so inspired by fellow students, and I felt like I finally found the people who cared about similar problems and issues. …
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The centre cannot hold: Arrival, margins, and the politics of ambivalence introduction to ‘arrival at the margins’, a special issue of migration studiesThis special issue calls on scholars to simultaneously centre and unsettle the margin: to recognise the multiplicity of margins as politically generative spaces, frequently contoured by sustained and varied forms of mobility. Taken together, the studies …
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Joe EastmanCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? I oversee the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) budget for contracted provider shelters for families and single adults, street outreach, medical/ behavioral health programs, and the agency’s …
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Two NYU Wagner Alumni Named to City & State's 2025 50 Over 50 List City & State ’s 2025 50 Over 50 list honors leaders who have dedicated decades to shaping and improving communities across New York. This year’s honorees include two NYU Wagner alumni whose impactful work in public affairs and social services has …
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Health Services Management Specialization Our mission is to prepare individuals for leadership roles in healthcare organizations. Our graduates apply their knowledge and skills to make evidence-based decisions that create high-quality, cost-effective healthcare organizations, and that promote …
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Alumni in Action: Harold Pettigrew (MUP) "When you take perhaps the most complex city in the country, and you study urban planning at NYU Wagner, it's almost the most perfect equation for figuring out whatever the problem is in your city." After graduating from NYU Wagner, Harold returned to his …
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Alumni Spotlight: Mustafa Babak (Global EMPA 2017)Where do you work? I am the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Afghan-American Foundation (AAF), a non-profit organization founded in 2020 to elevate and advance the interests of Afghan-Americans through policy and cultural advocacy, education, …
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Office of Alumni RelationsOffice of Alumni Relations ALUMNI RELATIONS AND STUDENT GROUPS The Office of Alumni Relations (OAR) can be a helpful resource as you plan events and programs. Whether you’re looking to secure alumni panelists for a career-focused program, host a …
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ASSESSING THE EMPOWERMENT OF SUBNATIONAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS IN ASIA The Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) is a nonprofit organization seeking to promote inclusive, equitable societies by enriching the understanding of decentralization and localization as complex, cross-cutting, and multi-stakeholder reforms. LPSA …
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DESIGNING A SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMBroadway for Arts Education (BAE) is a nonprofit organization that provides arts education to underserved youth by engaging volunteers from the Broadway community. BAE strives to shape a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community for its students …
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Desvinculado y Desigual: Is Segregation Harmful to Latinos?Despite the high levels of metropolitan-area segregation that Latinos experience, there is a lack of research examining the effects of segregation on Latino socioeconomic outcomes and whether those effects differ from the negative effects documented for …
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New Report Explores How Cities and 'Anchor Institutions' Can CollaborateNYU Wagner Innovation Labs' Director Neil Kleiman is the lead author of a new report released Sept. 29, "Striking a Local (Grand) Bargain: How cities and anchor institutions can work together to drive growth and prosperity." Published by the National …
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A critical Review of Race and Ethnicity in the Leadership Literature: Surfacing Context, Power and the Collective Dimensions of Leadership.Leadership studies focusing on race–ethnicity provide particularly rich contexts to illuminate the human condition as it pertains to leadership. Yet insights about the leadership experience of people of color from context-rich research within education, …
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Primary Care, Social Inequality, and Stroke Mortality in U.S. States--a Longitudinal Analysis, 1985-1995BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to test whether primary care reduces the impact of income inequality on stroke mortality. METHODS: This study used pooled time-series cross-sectional analysis of 11 years of state-level data (n=549). …