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Teaching Future Healthcare Financial Managers to Use EvidenceThere is a growing movement toward evidence-based management in healthcare. This movement extends to healthcare financial management. However, there are barriers to the use of evidence by healthcare financial managers. These barriers are largely the …
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Course Overview: Human Resources Leading Talent DevelopmentThis course is designed for public and nonprofit leaders and managers rather than human resource professionals and provides a broad overview of human resources and talent leadership. Regardless of the role you’ll play in the public/nonprofit sector, your …
Alumni In Action
Erik KorolevWhen Erik Korolev was graduating from Wagner, he applied to only one job on the west coast. Having grown up in New York, he focused the majority of his job applications towards organizations in New York and Connecticut. But the chance to take a project …
Capstone Projects
Optimizing and Sustaining Discharge Lounge ProcessesNew York-Presbyterian Queens (NYP Queens) is a community teaching hospital affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine. NYP Queens opened a discharge lounge to accommodate discharged patients and expedite bed turnover and new patient admission. NYP Queens …
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Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public PolicyMetropolitan economies sometimes experience economic adversity, with resulting serious impacts on the area's residents and institutions. The causes, nature, and length of these regional economic problems vary. The question we address in this book is why …
Alumni In Action
Danielle RosenCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? As Director of Operations for the CAPC program, I oversee the day-to-day operations of our real estate development and related work. CAPC is the real estate development entity of New Jersey's largest …
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Qualitative Assessment of the American Jewish Committees ACCESS: New Generation ProgramThe American Jewish Committee (AJC) is an international think tank and advocacy organization that seeks to protect Jews and other minorities by promoting pluralism, democracy and human rights throughout the world. With concerns of continuity weighing …
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ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF MARKET VOLATILITY ON SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OPERATIONS IN NYCServices for the UnderServed (S:US) is a NYC-based nonprofit organization that provides housing, employment, skill-building, and rehabilitation services to transform the lives of people with disabilities, people in poverty, and those experiencing …
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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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Notes from the Underground: The Mass Transit Response to TerrorismPublic transportation security became a main focal point after the September 11 attacks. How public transportation agencies responded to the attacks provides unique case studies for transportation planners and managers. With transit systems open and …
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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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UNCDF Nicaragua Local Economic DevelopmentThe United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) engaged a Capstone group to assess interim strategic planning outcomes of PADETOM, a UNCDF program in Nicaragua. The program's objective is to build the capacity of municipalities in the Rio San Juan …
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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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National Expansion of Online ProgrammingReach the World (RTW) was founded in 1998 to make the benefits of travel and global education accessible to K-12 students in New York City. Partnering with the Gilman and Fulbright Scholarship programs, RTW connects university students and recent …
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CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE IN BREAST CANCER CAREEmblemHealth, one of the largest nonprofit health plans in the United States, formed through the merger of Group Health Incorporated and the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York in 2006. Headquartered in Manhattan, EmblemHealth's goal is to provide …
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ASSESSING THE DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN TANZANIAThe European Commission's Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation (EC) supports local and community development and governance through its Civil Society Organizations and Local Authorities Unit. The Unit engaged a Capstone team to continue the …
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Establishing an evaluation tool for the community support for work componenet of Jobs PlusNew York City public housing residents experience high levels of poverty and unemployment. Administered by NYC’s Human Resources Administration (HRA), Jobs-Plus is a place-based employment program designed to tackle this issue. Jobs-Plus offers job …
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Media Attention and the Demise of Agency Independence: Evidence from a Mass Administrative Reorganization in BritainWhen administrative agencies are terminated, do they quietly fade from public view? On the one hand, the terminated agencies may have weak issue networks and agency reputations allowing them to lose public salience. On the other hand, strong issue …
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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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A Trapped-Factors Model of InnovationWhen will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the US or EU? We develop a model where factors of production have costs of adjustment and so are partially “trapped” in producing old …
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Sustainable Business Plan and Strategy for Live From the Edge TheaterTHE POINT is a community development organization focused on youth initiatives to revitalize the South Bronx. THE POINT relies heavily on grants, which fund more than 70 percent of its operations, and sought recommendations to reverse the ratio of grants …
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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. …