Search
Conduct a general search, select a content type, or navigate to specialized search pages: Courses, Faculty, News, Publications, and Capstone Projects.
Capstone Projects
Planning for an Electronic Medical Record: Research Based Guidelines"New Milford Hospital (NMH) is an 85bed community hospital in Connecticut facing the challenge of keeping pace with the rapidly evolving healthcare information technology environment. NMH asked the Capstone team to help its Health Information Technology …
Capstone Projects
Youth House Sustainability in Bosnia, Georgia and TajikistanThe Capstone team conducted an evaluation of Youth Houses in Bosnia, Georgia, and Tajikistan, with specific interest in the programmatic and financial sustainability of the houses independent of United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) support. The …
Capstone Projects
RESEARCHING AND IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NEW NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAMThe NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System (NYP) strives to identify, define, and improve upon the current practices and measures of success while focusing on evidence-based strategies to improve new graduate nurse retention. The NYP New Nurse Residency …
Capstone Projects
Creating a Next Generation Initiative Model for a Jewish Nonprofit Organization"The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the Jewish community's premier organization dedicated to rescue, relief, and renewal of Jewish communities abroad. As JDC is strategically planning for its organizational future, it requested a …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Workshop on Formal and Informal Sector Interaction in Urban Development for Rio de JaneiroThe state government of Rio de Janeiro recently sponsored a National Public Competition in an effort to generate ideas for an Urbanization Project Plan for the community of Rocinha, one of Rios largest informally constructed neighborhoods, known as …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Workshop on Formal and Informal Sector Interaction in Urban Development for Rio de JaneiroThe state government of Rio de Janeiro recently sponsored a National Public Competition in an effort to generate ideas for an Urbanization Project Plan for the community of Rocinha, one of Rios largest informally constructed neighborhoods, known as …
Capstone Projects
Building a Foundation for Organizational and Programmatic EvaluationThe Capstone team was asked by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (the Center) to implement a system to measure organizational and programmatic performance. The team began by conducting an evaluation-related needs assessment of …
Capstone Projects
Building a Foundation for Organizational and Programmatic EvaluationThe Capstone team was asked by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (the Center) to implement a system to measure organizational and programmatic performance. The team began by conducting an evaluation-related needs assessment of …
Capstone Projects
Raising Residential Recycling Rates in Stamford, ConnecticutThe Department of Solid Waste and Recycling in the City of Stamford, Connecticut is a municipal agency that manages waste collection and recycling. Despite efforts to increase participation in residential recycling, Stamford reached only a 9% recycling …
Capstone Projects
Evaluation of United Methodist Church Consumption Levels for a Pension Program in AngolaThe United Methodist Church (UMC) has collected over $10 million dollars to support the expansion of pension programs for United Methodist Church Conferences in the 37 countries in which it functions around the world. The Central Conference Pension …
Capstone Projects
Formalizing Petare’s Informal Street VendorsThe Capstone team worked with the Agency for Economic Development in Caracas, Venezuela on two main activities relating to informal street vendors operating in Petare, an informal settlement. The tasks included gathering information about the vending …
Capstone Projects
Creating a Strategic Plan for Reducing Road Traffic Injuries in AfricaAmend is a nonprofit organization addressing the epidemic of road-traffic injuries in African countries; its main service provides road safety education to school children, who bear a heavy burden of these injuries. Although Amend believes strongly in the …
Capstone Projects
Conducting a Pilot Community Needs Survey of the Arab-American Population in Southwest BrooklynThe Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) is a grassroots nonprofit that aims to support and empower the Arab immigrant community by providing services to help them adjust to their new home and become active members of society. The Capstone team …
Capstone Projects
Identifying Practices that Increase Ethnic and Racial Diversity of Senior ManagementThe National Human Services Assembly is an association of national nonprofits working in the fields of health, human and community development, and human services. One of the Assembly's current priorities is to identify practices that increase ethnic …
Capstone Projects
Improving Access: Identifying Barriers to Services for Formerly Incarcerated IndividualsThe Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health (AAIUH) designs, incubates, and replicates communitybased behavioral interventions that empower individuals to address health disparities in urban communities. AAIUH implements several barbershopbased health …
Capstone Projects
Economic Development and Job CreationLocal 32BJ membership is comprised of service employees, including maintenance, janitorial and construction workers, security guards, and doormen. The union wants to ensure that economic development funding is spent creating meaningful jobs for its …
Capstone Projects
The Effect of State Support on Educational AttainmentPublic higher education in the United States is of particular interest as state governments are forced to cut spending in the face of lower revenues during this currently unstable economic period. Higher education funding is not immune to these cuts, and …
Capstone Projects
Current Trends in Veteran Disability CompensationBy July 2007, approximately 787,000 service members left active military duty and became eligible for benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As the veteran population ages, service-connected conditions may arise or worsen. …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Volunteer Management SystemThe Jordan River Foundation (JRF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Jordanian citizens by establishing sustainable social and economic programs based on community needs and priorities. JRF partnered with the Capstone team to develop a …
Capstone Projects
IDENTIFYING STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS AND CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCEThe Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia (BB2C) is a social enterprise startup based in the United States and Cambodia that develops innovative equipment for smallholder Cambodian farmers through human-centered design and local insights. Seeking to develop an …
Capstone Projects
Local economic developmentThe United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) engaged a Capstone team to assist in the evaluation and development of a diagnostic toolbox capable of assessing local economic development (LED) in Least Developed Countries (LDC). The team developed a …
Capstone Projects
Transforming South Africa through supplier diversitySouth African Supplier Diversity Council’s (SASDC) goal is to promote supplier diversity by assisting member corporations in opening up business opportunities to certified Black-owned businesses. However, many corporations are reluctant to set supplier …
Publication
Bodies That Don't Matter: Death and Dereliction in ChicagoThrough a case study of the scientific, political and journalistic treatment of dead bodies in the 1995 Chicago heat wave, this article questions what kinds of truths are written on or contained within the body and what happens to the study of society …
Capstone Projects
The Impact of NYC Middle School Closures on Student AchievementWith more than 1.1 million students, the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) is the largest public school system in the country. Over the last decade, the NYC DOE has been at the center of one of the country’s most aggressive and controversial …