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Best Practices for Business Capacity Building in the New York City Childcare Sector"The Capstone team was engaged to further the Low Income Investment Fund's (LIIF) goals to provide capacity building services to community based childcare providers serving lowincome children in New York City. The team's work was performed in the …
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Reducing the staggering costs of environmental disease in children, estimated at $76.6 billion in 2008A 2002 analysis documented $54.9 billion in annual costs of environmentally mediated diseases in US children. However, few important changes in federal policy have been implemented to prevent exposures to toxic chemicals. We therefore updated and expanded …
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Debt, Donors, and the Decision to GiveThere has been a significant amount of work done on the private funding of nonprofits. Yet, despite the enormous size of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the importance of private donations to the sector, and the significance of the sector to public …
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Student Spotlight: Robyn James (MPA-PNP 2026)Robyn James (MPA-PNP 2026), Chair, NYU Wagner Black Student Association (BSA) Robyn James is a Master of Public Administration student in NYU Wagner’s Public & Nonprofit Management (PNP) program with a specialization in Advocacy & Political Action, and …
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The Cost Implications of Prostate Cancer Screening in the Medicare PopulationBackground : Recent debate about prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based testing for prostate cancer screening among older men has rarely considered the cost of screening. Methods : A population-based cohort of male Medicare beneficiaries aged 66 to 99 …
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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network October Digest… been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. …
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Factors associated with the adoption of evidence-based innovations by substance use disorder treatment organizations: A study of HIV testingIntroduction Though prior research shows that a range of important regulatory, market, community, and organizational factors influence the adoption of evidence-based practices (EBPs) among health care organizations, we have little understanding of how …
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Minding the Gap: Exploring State Factors Associated with the BlackWhite Test Score Gap"Racial inequality has been a persistent failing in American education. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires that states decrease the size of achievement gaps between racial subgroups each year and close all test score gaps by 2014. …
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Inviting Consumers To Downsize Fast-Food Portions Significantly Reduces Calorie ConsumptionPolicies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we tested an alternative approach: activating consumers’ self-control by having …
Alumni In Action
Tashiah Singleton… for Fellows placed in cities across the Northeast and West regions. I facilitated leadership development workshops …
Capstone Projects
Best Practices: Creating Diversity through Volunteer Recruitment and RetentionFree Arts NYC is an organization that delivers creative arts programs directly to low-income, homeless, abused, and neglected children. Volunteers act as mentors and create an environment for the children to express themselves through art projects. The …
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Comprehensive cost studyThe NYC Office of Vital Records (OVR), within the New York City Department of Health, is responsible for issuing all NYC birth and death certificates, processing approximately 650,000 paid certificates each year. OVR strives to be the most efficient of …
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The End of an Illusion: The Future of Health Policy in Western Industrialized Nations… forces that are transforming health care systems in the West. They begin by identifying issues around which debates …
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Summer 2021 LEAD Fellows… community health assessments for hospitals along the West Coast. Prior to attending Wagner, she worked for a …
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Student Spotlight: Liliana Flanigan (MPA-PNP 2026)In celebration of the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re shining a light on the Association of Latinx Students and Allies in Public Service (ALAS) —a student-led organization at NYU Wagner that builds community and advances professional …
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The Case for the Use of Evidence-Based Management Research for the Control of Hospital CostsThis article explores the current state of the creation and use of evidence by managers for cost containment in hospitals. We assert that hospitals do not know enough about what things cost, and until they get evidence on costs, it is not likely that much …
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United Nations Human Resources Reform: Study of Industry Best PracticesIn Resolution A/RES/57/305, the General Assembly requested the Office of Internal Oversight Services to study the impact of the mandated human resources reforms and report to the 59th session. To assist in the completion of this report, the Capstone team, …
Capstone Projects
United Nations Human Resources Reform: Study of Industry Best PracticesIn Resolution A/RES/57/305, the General Assembly requested the Office of Internal Oversight Services to study the impact of the mandated human resources reforms and report to the 59th session. To assist in the completion of this report, the Capstone team, …
Capstone Projects
Prenatal and Early Childhood Obesity Prevention in East Harlem"The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) improves the health of people living in cities, especially the disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, through research, education, community engagement, and evidencebased policy advocacy. NYAM is located in …