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Professor Jewell Jackson McCabe Receives NYU's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award… in their research, teaching, leadership, and/or community-building efforts. These awards are of particular … and in their work with students across the greater NYU community. With wide-ranging experience in both the public …
Alumni In Action
Sumaila Palla… graduate school? NYU Wagner was a way for me to look at community development through the lens of design. It was a …
Faculty Profile
Rebecca Abramson… mathematics disabilities. Rebecca completed her M.Ed. in Community Development and Development at Vanderbilt …
Alumni In Action
Rachel BrownCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? As a Principal Project Coordinator in the Capital Planning group at NJ TRANSIT, I am responsible for the intake of capital improvement concepts, evaluating their merits, and shepherding projects …
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Current International Students… are a multitude of opportunities to engage in the Wagner community from student groups to co-curricular activities. …
Capstone Projects
Analysis of State Minimum Wages Correlated to Financial Products Used by Low-income HouseholdsSeveral states in recent years have instituted minimum wage policies to address a stagnant federal minimum wage. Historically, exclusions from mainstream banking, racially discriminatory lending policies, and financial industry deregulation have …
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Alumnus Helps Set Up COVID-19 Testing Site… where he helped set up a federally-supported, state-run, community-based COVID-19 testing site, which opened to the … HHS joined forces with FEMA to establish the COVID-19 Community-Based Testing Task Force. The Community-Based Testing Site (CBTS) mission launched nearly …
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Creating New Beginnings for Malawians, Alumna Melissa Kushner’s Nonprofit Aims to Empower… in terms of supporting orphans and children in the community, and in bolstering healthcare, infrastructure, and launching community businesses. We’ve been able to create jobs and …
Capstone Projects
LINKED LEARNING ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT IN OAKLAND SCHOOLSThe Urban Strategies Council (USC) is an anti-poverty organization based in Oakland, California that works to transform low-income neighborhoods into vibrant, healthy communities. In response to disparate educational outcomes among students, California …
Capstone Projects
A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF CHANGES TO HEALTHCARE AND HEALTH STATUS ACROSS A GENTRIFYING CITY… Care Service Area Project, the US Census, and the NYC Community Health Survey, the team created a multi-pronged …
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Linking Incarcerated Individuals to Health Services is Focus of NYC Data Report by NYU Wagner Researchers and City Officials… people to comprehensive, integrated, and trauma-informed community-based health and social services to improve health, …
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Alumni Spotlight: AiLun Ku (MPA 2008)… the tangible skills she gained, to the sense of community and support that came from her colleagues. She also … she found that her strengths lay in administration, community building, thinking through processes and systems, … students through a commitment to access and community. Ku took on her current role at OppNet in the fall …
Capstone Projects
A Roadmap to Healthy Relationships and Consent Education in New York State… and domestic violence in New York State (NYS) through community education, supportive services, legal advocacy, and …
Capstone Projects
A Case Study on Best Practices for Out of School Time Intermediary OrganizationsThe After-School Corporation (TASC) Capstone team conducted case studies of six cities that were representative of the diversity of intermediary organizations currently engaged in systems building across the nation. The following intermediaries were …
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Bridging the Individual and Collective Dimensions of Leadership… of the Collective Leadership Network (Co-Lead Net), a community of scholars and practitioners from across ten … was NYU students, scholars, and members of the larger NYU community, who had a multi-generational conversation about …
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Urban Design… presentations that would be appropriate to share with community organizations or city agencies. …Alumni In Action
Adam Gerston… company with a mission to "give people the power to build community, and bring the world closer together." This mission …
Stories
Event Summary: From Urban Decay to Urban Agriculture… and international scope. The panelists ranged from a local community garden and urban farm leaders to national and … healthier cities, and most importantly, strong community building. There are, however, a fair amount of … and implementation efforts. Whether volunteering in the community or hosting large-scale events on campus, the WFPA …
Publication
Do Vouchers Help Low-Income Households Live in Safer Neighborhoods? Evidence on the Housing Choice Voucher ProgramThis article examines an important potential justification for the Housing Choice Voucher Program, namely, whether participants are able to access safer neighborhoods. Using neighborhood crime and subsidized housing data for 91 large cities, we examined …
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The Redevelopment of Lower Manhattan: The Role of the City… partial success: creating a mixed residential and office community in what was once New York City's dominant financial …
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Organization-Based Incident Management: Developing a Disaster Volunteer Role on a University CampusCatastrophic events are an ongoing part of life, affecting society both locally and globally. Recruitment, development, and retention of volunteers who offer their knowledge and skills in the event of a disaster are essential to ensuring a functional …
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Reinventing the Central City as a Place to Live and WorkPublic policies for urban development have traditionally emphasized investment in physical infrastructure, the development of large-scale commercial facilities, the construction of new housing, and the renewal of existing neighborhoods. Most efforts to …
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How Social Media Moves New York, Part 2: Recommended Social Media Policy for Transportation Providers… to customers, marketing new services, and building community - Responsive : Soliciting and internalizing …
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Changing Children's Trajectories of Development: Two-Year Evidence for the Effectiveness of a School-Based Approach to Violence PreventionAwareness of youth violence has increased in recent years, resulting in more interest in programs that can prevent violent and aggressive behavior. Although overall rates of violence among young people have declined since the mid-1990s, rates of some …