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Built in 1976, the Brooklyn Sports Club (BSC) is a membership-based fitness center and pool located on the property of Spring Creek Towers, the largest federally-assisted rental property in the United States. The combination of underutilization and a …
Brooklyn Sports Club
Covenant House New York (CHNY) is a supportive housing and human services provider dedicated to helping homeless youth transition back to independent living. The Capstone team undertook a series of activities to help CHNY improve its transitional living …
Covenant House New York
Community Healthcare Network (CHN) is a nonprofit organization that provides care to more than 85,000 predominantly low-income or uninsured New Yorkers of all ages throughout New York City. CHN engaged a Capstone team in identifying the causes of …
Community Healthcare Network
EmblemHealth, one of the largest nonprofit health plans in the United States, formed through the merger of Group Health Incorporated and the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York in 2006. Headquartered in Manhattan, EmblemHealth's goal is to provide …
EmblemHealth
The Bronx Defenders (BxD) practices a holistic client-centered model of public defense and considers client satisfaction to be a core value. Aiming to improve the quality of all indigent defense services, BxD engaged a Capstone team in developing a way to …
Bronx Defenders
UJA-Federation of New York (UJA) identifies and meets the needs of New Yorkers and Jews everywhere through the power of collective action. UJA engaged a Capstone team in improving the fiscal functioning of NYC's nonprofit human services sector by …
UJA-Federation of New York
The Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust (NaDEET)-a nonprofit environmental education organization located in Namibia-aims to protect Namibia's natural environment by educating its citizens to practice a sustainable lifestyle. After successfully …
Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust
Mercy Corps is a leading humanitarian and development organization with offices in more than 40 countries. Operating in some of the world's most complex and fragile environments, Mercy Corps works globally to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression …
Mercy Corps
The Rapid Results Institute (RRI) strives to bridge the gap between aspirations and impact by choreographing 100-day challenges that nudge communities, organizations, and government agencies-often working together-to achieve improbable results. RRI …
Rapid Results Institute
The Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) is a nonprofit agency that provides research, training, and direct services in the fields of criminal and juvenile justice and related human services. Since 1981, CCA has worked with attorneys and courts to …
Center for Community Alternatives
The Open Communities Alliance (OCA) is a civil rights nonprofit organization in Connecticut that promotes access to opportunity for all people through education, advocacy, research, and partnerships. OCA's opportunity mapping work has shown that …
Open Communities Alliance
ClassWish is a nonprofit organization that provides a way for the public to donate money to fund resources for American K-12 schools and teachers. By virtue of its buying power, ClassWish is able to obtain discounts of 15 to 50 percent on goods for …
ClassWish
Carbon War Room, a business unit of the nonprofit research and educational foundation Rocky Mountain Institute, works to intervene in markets to accelerate the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton scale and advance the …
Rocky Mountain Institute
The 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 …
Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia
Aide et Action (AEA) is a nonprofit that focuses on supporting local actors throughout the world so that they may devise, develop, and implement educational projects. It aims to build the capacities and promote the autonomy of population groups so that …
Aide et Action
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) is a nonprofit institution of Jewish higher education. HUC-JIR ordains rabbis and cantors in the Reform tradition, confers master's degrees in Jewish education and Jewish nonprofit management, …
Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion
Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) is the largest civil legal services provider in the country and helps more than 80,000 low-income New Yorkers annually. LSNYC's potential clients connect to legal counsel by calling the organization's hotline (Access Line), …
Legal Services NYC
End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism-United States (ECPAT) strives to create a world in which no child is bought, sold, or used for sex. ECPAT works with the hospitality industry to provide hotel staff with training on the commercial sexual …
End Child Prostitution In Asian Tourism-United States
Crea Comunidades de Emprendedores Sociales, A.C., (Crea) is a nonprofit social enterprise that implements customized programs to empower and strengthen women entrepreneurs from socially and economically marginalized areas in Mexico. Crea enlisted a …
Crea Comunidades de Emprendedores Sociales
Homeless Services United (HSU) is a coalition of nonprofit organizations serving homeless and at-risk adults and families in New York City. HSU provides advocacy, information sharing, and training to its approximately 50 member agencies to expand their …
Homeless Services United
The South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is a youth development organization that aims to “foster a strong sense of belonging in youth and provide them with tools to thrive academically, professionally, and personally.” SAYA has grown into a $3.9 million …
South Asian Youth Action
NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) is the largest public safety-net hospital system in the country, serving 1.4 million New Yorkers annually. In September 2014, H+H was awarded a $17.9 million healthcare innovation grant through the Center for Medicare & …
NYC Health + Hospitals
Power Shift Network (PSN) is a nonprofit organization working to organize, empower, and strengthen the youth climate justice movement. The Capstone team supported PSN as it considered whether to pursue additional political activities through the …
Power Shift Network
Project Hospitality is a community-based nonprofit organization that addresses the broad spectrum of basic, clinical, and social needs of homeless and food-insecure residents of Staten Island, New York. The organization is currently undergoing a …
Project Hospitality