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Within Reach: Housing Solutions for Miami's Workforce"Millions of working families across the country struggle to find decent, affordable places to live. This is especially true for the City of Miami. The City's Division of Economic Initiatives requested a Capstone team to recommend strategies to provide …

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The Role of Brooklyn Congregations in Providing Social Services to ChildrenACT* (Action by Congregations Together) for Children is a Brooklyn-based grassroots organization that seeks to mobilize congregations from all faiths to become advocates for childrens issues. The Capstone team researched the needs of Brooklyn children in …

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Brooklyn Arts Council Through a Kaleidoscope: Assessing Perceptions from an Artistic CommunityThe Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), a long-standing presence in the Brooklyn arts community, has recently experienced significant growth. Due to this development, BAC sought an impartial understanding of its role within the Brooklyn arts community, …

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Revisiting Components of Renewable Portfolio Standards and Their Impact on State Renewable Energy GenerationRenewable energy is an increasingly important source of US electricity due to concerns about global climate change, energy security, and fossil fuel price volatility. This study focuses on the extent to which state regulatory policies impact state …

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Are you Ready, New York? Developing and Piloting an Evaluative Tool for Assessing a NYC Emergency Preparedness ProgramThe Incident Based Distribution Program (IBD) operated by Ready New York mails emergency preparedness literature to areas recently affected by emergencies in order to increase public safety and encourage New Yorkers to prepare for emergency situations. …

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A Regional Review of Patterns and Innovations in African Local Government Expenditures on Managing HIV/AIDSThe Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa (MDPESA) is a capacity building facility dedicated to fostering effective self-governance at the local government level in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Capstone project supported MDPESA’s …

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Treating Obesity in Asian and Hispanic Patients In the Lower East Side: A Prevalence Study and Needs AssessmentThe Capstone team was asked by Gouverneur Treatment and Diagnostic Center to conduct a prevalence study and needs assessment for the conditions of obesity or being overweight in the patient population. The team first took a random sample of demographic …

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Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It"The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point, the spring must break." America’s nonprofit organizations face a difficult present and an …

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A qualitative analysis of environmental policy and children's health in MexicoBACKGROUND: Since Mexico's joining the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1994, it has witnessed rapid industrialization. A byproduct of this industrialization is increasing …

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Socioeconomic Status and Dissatisfaction Among HMO EnrolleesObjectives. Member satisfaction is commonly used as an indicator of the quality of care delivered by health plans. Yet few contemporary studies have explored the extent to which individual patient characteristics influence dissatisfaction in HMOs. We …

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Neighborhood Effects on Health: Exploring the Links and Assessing the EvidenceThis article is an extensive review of the relationship between neighborhood and health and methodological challenges. The authors categorize the ways neighborhood might affect health in three ways: direct threats created by the neighborhood's …

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Evaluating the Implementation and Cultural Appropriateness of a Parenting Support ProgramThe New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) aims to protect and promote the health of all NYC residents. Addressing health inequities and achieving racial justice is the foundation of DOHMH’s public health approach. The Bureau of …

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Designing Optimal Grandfathering Provisions in a Regulatory ContextThe Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan think tank working to deliver economic and legal analysis in support of optimal policy implementation across many environmental issues. Policies and regulatory actions often include …

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Survey and Analysis of Community-Based Supportive Housing NonprofitsNazareth Housing is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting housing stability, helping families out of poverty, and preventing homelessness in the communities it serves. Nazareth manages several programs, including supportive housing, emergency …

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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a DayPortfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton University Press, 2009) tackles the fundamental question of how the poor make ends meet. Over 250 families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa participated in this unprecedented …

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DONOR CULTIVATION AND STEWARDSHIPChanging the Present is a nonprofit organization that connects those interested in buying meaningful gifts with more than 1,500 charitable nonprofits that help make the world a better place. All donations made through Changing the Present's website go …

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IMPROVING THE GRANT PROCUREMENT PROCESSThe Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) promotes New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene initiatives such as preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from health emergencies that can potentially impact the …

Faculty Profile

Heather HaggHeather Hagg is the VP, Analytics and Operations at Castlight Health, with executive experience in private sector, federal government and startup healthcare organizations. As the Vice President, Medical Operations at K Health, she led US expansion of the …

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Mass Administration Reorganization, Media Attention and the Paradox of InformationHow does media attention influence government decisions about whether to terminate independent administrative agencies? We argue that an agency’s salience with partisan audiences has a direct effect, but a high media profile can disrupt normal government …

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Meet the NYU Wagner Faculty⁣ ⁣— Professor Mitchell L. Moss⁣Professor Mitchell L. Moss, Henry Hart Rice professor of urban policy and planning and director of the Rudin Center for Transportation, has been described as a "New Yorkologist" by The New York Times. In 2019, Professor Moss was appointed by Mayor de …

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Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships in Wakiso, UgandaPublic-Private Partnerships (PPP) are a relatively new means of service delivery in Uganda and have mostly occurred in the form of large, national-level projects. Recently, local governments have explored the potential of partnerships in order to provide …