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Persistent inequalities in health and access to health services: Evidence from New York CityIn Manhattan, the rate of hospital discharges for avoidable hospital conditions (AHC), a measure of access to timely and effective ambulatory care, fell by nearly 50 percent between 1999 and 2013. Despite this remarkable improvement, there has been …
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Income Gains and Month-to-Month Income Volatility: Evidence from the US Financial DiariesThe US Financial Diaries track the daily finances of low and moderate-income households over a year. The households faced substantial swings in income from month to month. On average, they experienced 2.7 months when income fell more than 25 percent below …
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Defining Core Values and Organizational CultureViolence Intervention Program (VIP) is a community-based nonprofit organization that helps to lead and empower Latinx survivors of domestic violence to safety by providing culturally-competent services, raising community awareness, and engaging in …
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Leveling the Playing Field: The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and Tax-Exempt Borrowing by Nonprofit Colleges and UniversitiesAs part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, non-hospital nonprofit organizations were subject to a $150 million cap on tax-exempt debt outstanding. This federally-imposed constraint was lifted by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. This paper examines how this …
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How States Stand to Gain or Lose Federal Funds by Opting In or Out of the Medicaid ExpansionFollowing the Supreme Court's decision in 2012, state officials are now deciding whether to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act. While the states' costs of participating in the Medicaid expansion have been at the forefront of this …
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Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Relations in Developing Countries: Navigating a Viable Path to ReformThe trend toward greater decentralization of governance activities, now accepted as commonplace in the West, has become a worldwide movement. Today s world demands flexibility, adaptability, and the autonomy to bring those qualities to bear. In this …
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Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit OrganizationsOne of the few books that addresses financial and managerial accounting within the three major areas of the public sector � government, health, and not-for-profit�the Second Edition provides the fundamentals of financial management for those pursuing …
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Power and the objectification of social targetsObjectification has been defined historically as a process of subjugation whereby people, like objects, are treated as means to an end. The authors hypothesized that objectification is a response to social power that involves approaching useful social …
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Testing Equivalence of Mediating Models of Income, Parenting, and School Readiness for White, Black, and Hispanic Children in a National SampleThis paper examines complex models of the associations between family income, material hardship, parenting, and school readiness among White, Black, and Hispanic 6-year-olds, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). It is …
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Toward a More Public Discussion of the Ethics of Federal Social Program EvaluationFederal social program evaluation has blossomed over the past quarter century. Despite this growth, there has been little accompanying public debate on research ethics. This essay explores the origins and the implications of this relative silence on …
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The Relations Between Maternal Behaviors and Urban Preschool Children's Internal Working Models of Attachment SecurityInterviewed 93 African-American, low-income women who had become pregnant as teenagers and their preschool-aged children in their homes. Mothers answered questions regarding their everyday stresses and feelings of depression. Children were assessed for …
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NYU Wagner Recipients of President's Service Award for 2018On April 24, three NYU Wagner student organizations and two NYU Wagner students were honored at the 34th Annual President’s Service Awards . Held at the NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, the award ceremony honored more than 40 groups and nearly 100 …
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What’s the Worst That Can Happen? Social Media Protocols and PoliciesTimely updates, increased citizen engagement, and more effective marketing are just a few of the reasons transportation agencies have already started to adopt social media networking tools.  Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media  …
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The Role of Economic and Social Councils in Participatory GovernanceSince 1999, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has been an institutional organizer of the Global Forum on Reinventing Government, which in 2007 will focus on the theme “Building Trust in Government.” To contribute to this forum, and to the …
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Internal Communication and Committee Structure: Key Issues and RecommendationsGouverneur is an expansive diagnostic and treatment center located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side serving patients within an ambulatory care capacity and a 210 bed Skilled Nursing Facility. Recently, executive management has identified communication gaps …
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Scalable Fundraising Plan to Raise Unrestricted Revenue"Community Works, based in New York City, is a 15­year young nonprofit arts and education organization that aims to strengthen communities and public school arts curricula through programs that honor local communities and unsung heroes. In recent years, …
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Local Economic Development in NicaraguaThe United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), in collaboration with the government of Nicaragua and the Nicaraguan Institute of Municipal Development (INIFOM), established the Fondo de Inversi?n para el Desarollo Econ?mico Local (FIDEL) in 2008. …
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Evaluation Plan for Youth Development Training CenterBig Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of New York asked a Capstone team to create an evaluation plan for three of its Training Center's programs: Professional Development Workshop Series, Borough Mentoring Networks, and Technical Assistance. In order to do …
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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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Local Economic Development in Uganda and RwandaThe United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the Swedish International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD) support capacity building and governance in developing countries, both to improve decentralization and to strengthen local public …
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Surveying the State of Volunteerism in the American Jewish CommunityRepair the World’s mission is to inspire and build a movement that makes service a defining element of American Jewish life, learning, and leadership. Repair connects Jewish Americans to meaningful volunteer opportunities, and builds the capacity of …
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Community Interim Site Use Plan for the Hunts Point Riverside Campus for Arts and the EnvironmentTHE POINT Community Development Corporation is focused on youth develop­ment and community revitalization in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. THE POINT asked the Capstone team to devel­op an interim site plan for an undeveloped land parcel that it …
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