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Student Spotlight: Annie NelsonCan you share a bit about yourself and what motivated you to attend a school of public service? While I have always wanted to work in the public sector, my passion for public service was solidified when I taught fifth grade at a public charter school in …
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Viability and Sustainability Factors of a Professional Development ProgramFounded in 2005, Hidden Sparks aims to meet the needs of diverse learners within Jewish day schools both in and beyond New York City. Its pedagogy and model, informed by the work of educational researcher Mel Levine, provides educators and administrators …
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Is newer always better? Re-evaluating the benefits of newer pharmaceuticalsWhether newer pharmaceuticals justify their higher costs by reducing other health expenditures has generated significant debate. We replicate a frequently cited paper by Lichtenberg on drug “offsets” and find the results disappear using a more appropriate …
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Urban Distribution Centers: Means to Reducing Freight Vehicle Miles TraveledThe present study examines the model of freight consolidation platforms, and urban distribution centers (UDCs) in particular, as a means to solve the last mile problem of urban freight while reducing vehicle miles traveled and associated environmental …
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Urban Infrastructure Project PlanningThis course is about the process of scoping and planning public sector investment projects and the basic knowledge and skills required for their financial and economic appraisal (‘ex-ante’ evaluation). The focus is on urban infrastructure projects …Capstone Projects
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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Assessing the Feasibility of a Shared Services Platform for Education CentersThe Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) is a community-focused lending institution that invests capital in low-income people and communities. LIIF partners with programs offering affordable housing, childcare, education services, healthcare, and …
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IMPROVING PAVEMENT MARKING REFURBISHMENT IN BROOKLYNThe New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) is responsible for installing and maintaining over 200 million linear feet of pavement markings, which are used on paved roadways to direct and inform drivers and pedestrians, and ensuring that the …
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Is there an Intrinsic Duty to Vote? Comparative Evidence from East and West GermansThe duty to vote is a strong predictor of turnout, but little is known of its source, leaving much ambiguity around the nature of the motivation. This article shows that a powerful pathway lies in the ethical commitment many individuals feel to their …
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Primary care, social inequalities, and birth outcomes in U.S. statesStudy objective: The study tests the extent to which primary care physician supply (office based primary care physicians per 10 000 population) moderates the association between social inequalities and infant mortality and low birth weight throughout the …
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Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Michael Blake in Conversation with the Honorable Shaun DonovanBy: Sakura Miyazaki On Monday, October 28, 2019, NYU Wagner’s Visiting Urbanist Michael Blake invited students, faculty, and staff to discuss the future of urban policy in cities like New York with the Honorable Shaun Donovan, former Director of the US …
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Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing EconomyThe sharing economy is creating new business models, forcing traditional for-profit businesses to adapt or fall behind. The same will hold true for the social sector. … Gore, Erin Morgan … Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing …
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Beyond a leader-centered approach: Practicing leadership capabilities for collaborationOver 30 students from various degree programs across NYU Wagner deepened their capacity for impactful leadership through the Fall 2017 Collaborative Leadership Laboratory, Co-Lead Lab . The program emphasizes the value of moving beyond leader-centered …
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EVALUATING PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR BIPOC SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSFor over 35 years, Echoing Green has been building a dynamic ecosystem to support and invest in emerging social entrepreneurs who work at the intersection of global justice, racial equity, and social innovation. In 2020, Echoing Green launched a $50 …
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Guillermina AltomonteGuillermina Altomonte is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Working at the intersections of medical sociology, organizations, and culture, she uses qualitative methods to study the changing organization of …
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INVESTING IN MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), in partnership with the International Municipal Investment Fund (IMIF) and other local capital financing programs, utilizes a range of blended finance models to support local government investments in …
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Connecting the Dots: Interprofessional Health Education and Delivery System Redesign at the Veterans Health AdministrationHealth systems around the United States are embracing new models of primary care using interprofessional team-based approaches in pursuit of better patient outcomes, higher levels of satisfaction among patients and providers, and improved overall value. …
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Race-Based Neighborhood Projection: A Proposed Framework for Understanding New Data on Racial IntegrationThis paper outlines the race-based, neighbourhood projection hypothesis which holds that, in choosing neighbourhoods, households care less about present racial composition than they do about expectations about future neighbourhood conditions, such as …
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Open NYU: CrowdsourcingGovernance Lab (GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by using technology to change the way we govern. The GovLab requested a Capstone team to undertake pilot projects in units across New York University to explore how crowdsourcing tools can help …
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Improving Evaluation MetricsLegal Information for Families Today (LIFT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing access to justice for children and families by providing legal information, community education, and guidance in the family court system. LIFT requested a …
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Prediction of patient-specific risk and percentile cohort risk of pathological stage outcome using continuous prostate-specific antigen measurement, clinical stage and biopsy Gleason scoreObjectives : To develop a ‘2010 Partin Nomogram’ with total prostate-specific antigen (tPSA) as a continuous biomarker, in light of the fact that the current 2007 Partin Tables restrict the application of tPSA as a non-continuous biomarker by creating …
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Strategic Plan: Professional Development and Dissemination of DLAM CurriculumThe Dont Laugh at Me (DLAM) Project was founded in 1999 to create and disseminate educational programs designed to promote respect, compassion, understanding and tolerance among school-age children. The Capstone team was asked to research existing …
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JT ThazhathelJT Thazhathel is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has over 10 plus years of experience in the areas of finance, accounting and healthcare. He is also a finance manager …
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Feasibility Analysis: The Development of a Technical Assistance UnitCommon Ground, a not-for-profit corporation that develops innovative solutions to homelessness, has received national awards for their remarkably successful approach to address the root causes of homelessness. Common Grounds affordable housing model …