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DESIGNING A SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMBroadway for Arts Education (BAE) is a nonprofit organization that provides arts education to underserved youth by engaging volunteers from the Broadway community. BAE strives to shape a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community for its students …
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“The Social Meaning of Mobile Money: Earmarking Reduces the Willingness to Spend in Migrant Households”Behavioral household finance shows that people are often more willing to spend when using less tangible forms of money like debit cards or digital payments than when spending in cash. We show that this “payment effect” cannot be generalized to mobile …
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Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment (SI3) SpecializationLearn how to deploy entrepreneurial approaches, whether within existing organizations or by launching and scaling ventures that prioritize social good alongside financial returns, developing solutions to address pressing global and local …
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How Can Major Cities Reduce Automobile Congestion and Pollution?Professor Zhan Guo talks about his research on public transit, pedestrian planning, and parking zoning. …
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‘Big Push’ To Reduce Maternal Mortality In Uganda And Zambia Enhanced Health Systems But Lacked A Sustainability PlanIn the past decade, “big push” global health initiatives financed by international donors have aimed to rapidly reach ambitious health targets in low-income countries. The health system impacts of these efforts are infrequently assessed. Saving Mothers, …
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Power Reduces the Press of the Situation: Implications for Creativity, Conformity, and DissonanceAlthough power is often conceptualized as the capacity to influence others, the current research explores whether power psychologically protects people from influence. In contrast to classic social psychological research demonstrating the strength of the …
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Power Reduces the Press of the Situation: Implications for Creativity, Conformity, and DissonanceAlthough power is often conceptualized as the capacity to influence others, the current research explores whether power psychologically protects people from influence. In contrast to classic social psychological research demonstrating the strength of the …
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The Color Bind: Talking (and not Talking) about Race at WorkSince the 1960s, the dominant model for fostering diversity and inclusion in the United States has been the “color blind” approach, which emphasizes similarity and assimilation and insists that people should be understood as individuals, not as members of …
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Our World Survey 2007: A Global Youth Perspective on Citizenship and Identity (Including an In-Depth Look of Youth from Israel and Lebanon)The Our World Survey 2007 captures the perceptions, attitudes and knowledge young people (ages 15-24), in all regions of the world, have on the topics of global citizenship and identity. The results and analysis of this survey are intended to inform …
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Determining Efficacy of Current Programs and Developing a Business Plan for Program Expansion OpportunitiesThe Rock School for Dance Education is one of the nation's premier schools for classical ballet training with a $4 million budget and an annual enrollment of more than 1,000 students at facilities in Philadelphia and West Chester, Pennsylvania. The School …
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Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Public Administration Training Program for Public Sector Employees in JordanThe Education for Employment Foundation aims to create job opportunities for unemployed youth in the Middle East and North Africa by providing them with professional and technical training. The organization's affiliate in Jordan, the Jordan Career …
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Urban Climate Resilience: Planning for an Uncertain FutureClimate change will profoundly shape our cities. Cities will be transformed by the effects of climate change or the interventions taken to reduce those impacts. As planners, policy-makers, and urbanists, we hold the profound responsibility of helping …
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Segregation and Public Policy in the American CityIn early 2020 the intertwined economic, social, and political crises facing cities brought renewed public awareness to entrenched racial inequality and oppression in the United States, particularly anti-Black racism. Students in this course will develop a …Publication
Neighborhood and Family Factors Predicting Educational Risk and Attainment in African-American and European-American Children and AdolescentsHalpern-Felsher, B., Connell, J. Spencer, M., Aber, J.L., Duncan, G., Clifford, E., Crichlow, W., Usinger, P. & Cole, S. …
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Urban Solutions to Reducing Carbon Emissions through Solid Waste DisposalThe Station Alliance is a nonprofit, privately funded organization established to improve the environment of New York City’s subway stations. The Station Alliance requested a Capstone team to identify ways to upgrade the condition of the stations and …
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Urban solutions to reducing carbon emissions through solid waste disposalThe Regional Plan Association (RPA), in partnership with the World Bank Institute, has initiated the Metropolitan Strategic Planning Lab (MetroLab), a platform for cities across the world to share challenges and solutions to metropolitan planning and …
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Do Perceptions of School Climate Get Better? Students with Disabilities (And their General Education Peers) Go to High SchoolSpenser Gwozdzik and Leanna Stiefel …
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Improving NYC Schools through Innovative Best PracticesUnder the outdated "industrial model" of education utilized in New York City public schools, many students are ill prepared for the challenges they are faced with when they enter the work force. To partially mitigate these problems, the NYC Department of …
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Leveraging Organizational Strengths to Generate IncomeHarlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) is a college preparatory and completion program that provides an extended continuum of education and youth development and leadership opportunities to underserved New York City students. HEAF has received multiple …
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A pedagogical model for increasing race-related multicultural counseling competencyResearch suggests advances in students’ multicultural competence following multicultural counseling training. Increasingly, however, multicultural counseling courses have emphasized self awareness, which has increased the affective demands of these …
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Leanna StiefelLeanna Stiefel, Professor of Economics, teaches courses in multiple regression and economics of education. Her areas of expertise are school finance and education policy, applied economics and applied statistics. Some of her current and recent research …
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Creating, Cultivating and Sustaining Alumni EngagementHarlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) is a supplemental education and youth development organization that seeks to proactively involve more of its alumni in the life and development of the organization. HEAF requested a Capstone team to identify gaps …
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Capacity Assessment Research, Development, and ImplementationThe primary goal of the International Center for Tolerance Education (ICTE) is to support initiatives designed to promote young children’s understanding of and respect for the differences that exist among themselves, especially those related to culture, …
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Capacity Assessment Research, Development, and ImplementationThe primary goal of the International Center for Tolerance Education (ICTE) is to support initiatives designed to promote young children’s understanding of and respect for the differences that exist among themselves, especially those related to culture, …