Capstone Projects
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Accelerating Market-Driven Partnerships (AMP), a nonprofit launched by the U.S. Secretary of State's Global Partnership Initiative, and The Carbon War Room, a partnering organization founded by Sir Richard Branson, commissioned a Capstone team to conduct …
Accelerating Market-Driven Partnerships and The Carbon War Room
Following Superstorm Sandy, the City of Long Beach began a comprehensive planning process to determine appropriate solutions for minimizing the impact of severe weather events. The Capstone team was tasked with creating a green stormwater mitigation plan …
Sustainable Long Island and the City of Long Beach, NY
The Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) is a nonprofit, public interest law firm committed to advancing racial and economic justice and assisting low-income Mississippians to break the cycle of poverty. In an effort to strengthen communities by …
Mississippi Center for Justice
Land is Life works to support indigenous communities in their efforts to protect their lands, cultures, and livelihoods. Working in the Kuna Yala region of Panama, the Capstone team was invited by the island of Ustupo to analyze postconsumer waste. The …
Land is Life
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) is a neighborhood revitalization organization focused on housing and commercial development efforts to rebuild the City of New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, NORA acquired nearly 5,000 vacant lots from the …
New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
Paper-based data collection methods are still common in health clinics around the world. Implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) has the potential to ensure more accurate data, reduce storage costs, and increase efficiency at these health clinics …
Wireless Access for Health
Transparency International (TI) is a global nonprofit organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development. Having identified the security and defense sector as a blind spot in existing corruption …
Transparency International Secretariat
The Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF), housed within the Social Finance Programme of the International Labour Organization, is a leader in investigating microinsurance as a solution to protecting low-income households against unexpected financial …
International Labour Organization, Microinsurance Innovation Facility
Global Goods Partners (GGP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating effective, income-generating opportunities for marginalized women and their communities through access to the consumer market for handmade and fair trade artisan crafts. …
Global Goods Partners
The Myanmar Association for Public Policy (MAPP) is an independent think tank in Myanmar founded by public policy graduates who systematically formulate and introduce relevant policy recommendations to policymakers based on research and evidence. The …
Myanmar Association for Public Policy, Food Safety
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) is currently in the process of developing a self-assessment questionnaire for government officials entitled the Measurement and Evaluation Tool for Engagement and e-Participation …
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Trickle Up is a New York-based international development nonprofit that supports people living in extreme poverty by providing livelihood training, savings group formation, and seed capital grants to launch or expand livelihood activities. Trickle Up …
Trickle Up
Wireless Access for Health (WAH) is a nonprofit e-health organization in the Philippines designed to improve local health governance and increase access to better quality health data, management, and provision. The task of the Capstone team was to …
Wireless Access for Health
The UN Free and Equal Campaign is the first global education initiative on LGBT equality, sponsored by the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) and the Purpose Foundation. The campaign was launched in South Africa in …
Purpose Foundation, Free & Equal, UN Free and Equal Campaign
Nearly 80 percent of Cambodia’s population lives in rural areas and is heavily involved in the agricultural sector. However, many rural farmers live in poverty, unable to provide means beyond subsistence living. Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia (BB2C) strives …
Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Pediatric Endocrinology Division specializes in the treatment of all pediatric endocrine disorders including diabetes, disorders of the adrenal and ovarian glands, growth, puberty, bone, calcium, and vitamin D …
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pediatrics
The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security (NGOWG) advocates for the equal and full participation of women in all efforts to create and maintain international peace and security. In order to bolster anecdotal reports of its success, the NGOWG …
NGO Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security
The East Meets West Foundation (EMW) is an international development agency devoted to the creation of sustainable solutions for difficult development problems. Active primarily in Southeast Asia, EMW conducts programs in education, water, sanitation, and …
East Meets West
CorpsAfrica is a nonprofit organization, inspired by the Peace Corps, devoted to community participatory development throughout Africa. CorpsAfrica is in its first year of operations in Morocco. Ten Moroccan Fellows have committed one year of service, …
CorpsAfrica
The Staten Island Economic Development Corporation (SIEDC) is a nonprofit organization focused on bringing public and private investment to Staten Island to enhance the local economy. Staten Island’s West Shore has long been overlooked by the region’s …
Staten Island Economic Development Corporation
Enterprise Community Partners (ECP) is a nonprofit organization that has been a passionate and forthright voice, locally and nationally, in the advocacy of issues important to the affordable housing community. ECP is also a national leader in bringing the …
Enterprise Community Partners
The Astella Development Corporation (ADC) is a nonprofit organization that works to improve quality of life in Coney Island through commercial and economic development and providing affordable housing. Mermaid Avenue is a key commercial corridor in Coney …
Astella Development Corporation, New York City Department of Small Business Services
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Project aims to assist merchants in accessing resources to help grow their business, providing organizational capacity development to support the upstart and upkeep of local merchant groups. …
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Sheepshead Bay
The NYU Student Health Center (NYUSHC) employed a Capstone team to assess the current health care delivery model and provide recommendations to implement a more student-centered service delivery system. The Capstone team reviewed the standards required …
New York University Student Health Center