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Mobile Home Developments: Impact on Local Treasury… population near Detroit, Michigan. A case study in other states with similar local finance structures would result in …
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Access to Health Care Services… and access to care? Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8 th Edition discusses these and other core issues in …
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Making Progress in Relating Values, Goals, and Outcomes in the Evaluation of Local Economic Development Policy… policies must function. Recent work in the United States also suggests that policy makers should direct more …
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Analysis of Selection Effects in New York City's Medicaid Managed Care Population… several years the majority of Medicaid patients in many states will become enrolled in managed care plans, some …
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Following the Money: Using Expenditure Analysis as an Evaluation ToolThis article describes the nature and utility of fiscal analysis in evaluating complex community interventions. Using New York University's evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative as an example, the authors describe …
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Risk Management and Risk Analysis-Based Decision Tools for Attacks on Electric Power… (NERC), to look at incidents over time in the United States and Canada for the period 1990-2004. Negative binomial …
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Peer-to-Peer Information Exchange on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Bus Priority Practices… Agencies from dozens of large cities around the United States participated at three (3) peer-to-peer exchanges in …
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Short and Intermediate Economic Impacts of a Terrorist-Initiated Loss of Electric Power: Case Study of New JerseyThe economic impacts of potential terrorist attacks on the New Jersey electric power system are examined using a regional econometric model. The magnitude and duration of the effects vary by type of business and income measure. We assume damage is done …
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Making Nonprofits Work: A Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Management ReformIn Making Nonprofits Work, Paul C. Light charts the current trends of management reform in the nonprofit sector and assesses the climate for reform at the local and national levels. Light examines the four popular philosophies, or "tides," being …
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Information and Farmers' Attitudes About Pesticides, Water Quality and Related Environmental Effects… using a survey of 2700 farmers in three mid-Atlantic states. Farmers' beliefs are similar to those of the general …
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Access to Health Care Services… and access to care? Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8 th Edition discusses these and other core issues in …
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The Collapse of the World Trade Center: Learning from Urban Disasters… of the worst urban disasters in the history of the United States. Almost 3,000 people perished as a result of the …
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ADVANCING MUSIC EDUCATION IN SOUTHEAST QUEENSA Better Jamaica (ABJ) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2007 that is dedicated to offering a broad range of programs, from arts and culture to educational support, to strengthen the community of Jamaica, Queens. ABJ engaged a Capstone team with the …
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Mobilizing Transit-Avoided CarbonFour out of every five New York City rush-hour commuters travel using public transportation, making the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) perhaps the single largest source of greenhouse gas avoidance in the nation. MTA’s …
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Expansion of New York Times Knowledge Network Web Site to Foster International Civic Engagement… Project, promotes informed civic engagement in the United States. The international section will focus on issues …
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An Interview-Based Case Study Analysis of UNEAD Electoral Assistance in Liberia and Nigeria… to its objectives; to enable the Secretariat and Member States to engage in systematic reflection, with a view to …
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Evaluation of Post-Tsunami Housing Built in Aceh, Indonesia… Orthodox, and Anglican denominations in the United States, to whom UMCOR provided funding. This study evaluates …
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Linking Domestic Violence Survivors to Low Income Housing Tax Credit UnitsNew Destiny Housing Corporation is a nonprofit advocacy organization seeking to provide permanent affordable housing to victims of domestic violence (DV). The Capstone team was asked to investigate the possibility of linking DV survivors to Low Income …
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An Analysis of the Mental Health Services Delivery System in New York CityThe Office of the Bronx Borough President requested a Capstone team analyze service delivery to New York Citys mentally ill population. The Capstone team completed an overview of the system's present capacity and service delivery strategy to analyze the …
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Creating an Inclusive Green Collar Workforce: Opportunities for Building Service Workers in a Greening Economy… and position it to benefit from a greening of the United States? economy. …
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Improving MRA's Medical Supply Donation Program in Kenya… of donated medical supplies and equipment from the United States to health centers in the Transmara district in …
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Improving MRA's Medical Supply Donation Program in Kenya… of donated medical supplies and equipment from the United States to health centers in the Transmara district in …
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Securing Revenue and Managing Financial Operations in an Expanding OrganizationThe Pike County Public Library (PCPL) sought to address the competing challenges of increased usage and insufficient capacity at its main branch and two satellite branches. Unable to meet the needs of the county's 60,000 residents, the PCPL has begun the …
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An Inquiry Into Administrative Operations and Process Flow at CERCThe Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC) is one of the primary centers in New York City and New York State providing health care services to children with developmental disabilities. In 2004, President Bush mandated that all healthcare …