Dana Cohen, Ellen Ulerio, and Allison Wen created an innovative pilot program that offers blood pressure readings in public spaces in Queens.
The project, which won the MPA Program's annual team competition, aims to address the high rate of heart disease and lack of access to health care in Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Corona.
Through on-the-ground interviews and NYC open data research, the team investigated barriers to health access that distance these majority-immigrant neighborhoods from basic preventive services. These barriers include language, financial hardship, time… Read More »
Steven Molinari discusses his prestigious paid internship in the NY State Assembly
Steven Molinari (MPA ’18) was the first MPA student from CCNY to be chosen for the graduate internship in the NY State Assembly, which comes with a $15,000 stipend. During his time in the MPA program, he interned in nonprofit advocacy groups as well as the city and state government, with support from the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service. He found a moment to sit down with us and reflect on his career path as a policy analyst.
What was most memorable about your internship? Being able… Read More »
This spring, our first-year students developed their management skills by working as strategic consultants for leading social enterprise startups.The month-long projects, led by Professor Anusuya Banerjee (pictured lower right), were the final assignment for Strategic Management, a required course that teaches how organizations can align their social mission with a sustainable financial model while effectively engaging stakeholders and allies.
After learning in class about management techniques such as SWOT analysis, stakeholder mapping, and logical frameworks of impact… Read More »
Second-year students in CCNY’s Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) program spent much of their final semester outside of the classroom engaging local communities and officials on public health issues affecting New York City neighborhoods.The Lower East Side, Crown Heights, Elmhurst, Mott Haven, and Central Harlem are among the neighborhoods where three-person teams of students interviewed local stakeholders and tested policy interventions for problems such as asthma, obesity, and access to prenatal care.The semester-long assignment, known as a capstone project, encouraged… Read More »
Students in the MPA Program learn from active professionals who bring practical experience into the classroom. This allows the program to advance relevant and engaged scholarship, which is fundamental to the mission of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. With Professor Ashraf, students examine crucial public policy issues such as criminal justice and health access, drawing upon her experience as a policy advisor at the Mayor’s Office. Her current role as special advisor at Open Society Foundations enriches her course on nonprofit management.
People who help refugees resettle often suffer from Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), the vicarious emotional pain caused by hearing about others’ trauma, according to a study co-authored by Ryan Hallock (MPA ‘17, pictured above) and Dr. Adriana Espinosa.
The study, based on 210 survey responses, found that after assisting continual cases of severely traumatized refugees, resettlement workers are prone to lose sleep and feel angry and hopeless. To cope with the pain, they often turn to alcohol, distraction, and self-blame, and they… Read More »
Tsuneko Ito, who graduated from the MPA Program in 2017, recently joined a Doctors without Borders mission in South Sudan as a personnel development manager. She now coordinates capacity-building programs for more than 500 staff members and plans human resources strategy to ensure the mission's success. "Many things I learned in the MPA Program are coming back to me in my day-to-day work," Tsuneko recently wrote. While earning her MPA, Tsuneko interned at the United Nations Secretariat and received a research scholarship to work on the Kofi Annan papers archive, with support… Read More »
Recipients of our Changemaker Scholarships choose among three scholarship tracks: management, research, or social innovation. They use the scholarship to support work that advances their career goals by helping them get experience, develop skills, gain knowledge, and build relationships in their field.
Nine students received changemaker scholarships in spring 2018, made possible by generous funding from the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service.
Our social innovation fellows explore creative approaches to social change that go outside the limits of government and the… Read More »
Professor Bhakti Mirchandani, who teaches public budgeting and finance in the MPA Program, published an article in the journal Nonprofit Quarterly about the successes and failures of pay-for-success bonds.
To improve the effectiveness of these performance-based public contracts, Mirchandani recommends aligning returns with market rates, expanding the pool of eligible investors, standardizing the structure of pay-for-success financial instruments, sharpening program evaluation tools, and offering larger-scale contracts.
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Professor Mirchandani is a microfinance… Read More »
Current MPA students talk about the key skills they are developing in the program.
Last Updated: 09/13/2021 15:40