Creator(s): Francis DeLuca, Xianjie Meng, McKayla Quinn-Steineke, Harshita Sarup, Shiyuan Zhang Course: PPUA7673 Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs Family Nurturing Center (FNC) provides instructional programming to families that helps parents improve their parenting skills while contributing to their children’s development. FNC’s facilitators need constructive feedback from parents to ensure that both are realizing…
Category: Spring 2023
CultureHouse Harvard Square
Creator(s): Rongsen Hu, Fabiola Matos Ruiz, Jackie Peterson, Alexis Rosales-Hernandez Course: PPUA7673 Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs The Capstone Team has partnered with CultureHouse to work together in their upcoming pop-up at Harvard Square. The newsstand building located in Harvard Square has a rich cultural history, which the City of Cambridge has been…
Boston Public Schools Early Childhood Department Family Engagement Strategy
Creator(s): George Atupem, John Cruz-Olivari, Allison Kenny, Prakriti Singh Course: PPUA7673 Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs For decades the city of Boston has been a beacon of progress and hope in New England –attracting families from many parts of the region and the world. But as its population has grown, and many families…
Pivot Fund Survey Report
Creator(s): Gabriel Cohen Course: JRNL5480 Research for Media Strategy This is a final report of the survey and analysis our students performed for their service learning partner….
Project Flourish Evaluation Plan
Creator(s): Adriana Mendoza, Jessica Mahon, Fangyu Zhao, Emily Henderson, Zhaoyu Wang Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation Program Evaluation: Project Flourish is an apprenticeship program designed to develop early childhood specialists through a combination of classroom instruction and on-the-job training, mentoring, pay increases when benchmarks are reached, and, upon graduation, professional certifications. Project Flourish seeks…
My Life My Choice Evaluation Plan
Creator(s): Cassidy Pereira, Jeanna Saupin, Jessica Robinson, Samantha Pierre, Kate Norman Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation My Life My Choice (MLMC) is a nonprofit organization that started in 2002 after the death of seventeen-year-old Latasha. Latasha, a victim of commercial sexual exploitation, was brutally murdered while living in a Department of Children and Families…
Love Your Menses Evaluation Plan
Creator(s): Rebecca Rokne, Josephine Tracy, Destiny Harden, Kiana Lloyd, Alexandra Kane Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation Program Evaluation: The co-founder and executive director of Love Your Menses, Dr. Ebere Azumah and Asriel Walker, wants to understand both the strengths and weaknesses that have occurred in the first year of the Postpartum and Education Support…
Improving Truck Safety in Boston
Creator(s): Jingtong Shan, Yuchao Tian, Lyuyi Hu Course: PPUA6506 Techniques of Policy Analysis Through our conducted study, we found that the Boston government has taken truck safety seriously. The overall goal of our final paper and presentation is to develop and present a policy recommendation to improve truck safety in Boston, with the objective of…
LendaHand Alliance Cohort Evaluation
Creator(s): Jonah Williams, Matthew Blackbourn, Michael Hori, Godwin Ilenre Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation Program Evaluation: Through the inaugural LendaHand Alliance Cohort, Lending Tree Foundation supports nonprofits expanding access to art and artists, helping people rise above addiction to return to building their communities, improving financial and technological literacy, and increasing the supply of…
FSEM 1000 Community Organizing Alliance Final Reports
Creator(s): Camille Boer, Elena Grant, Ella Young, George Decker, Grace De Hoogh, Katherine Leichty, Lauren Ballengee, Lilly O’Meara, Maria Bisono Turull, Abby Moore, Rachel Tulk, Radhika Suri Course: FSEM1000 Connections & Decisions Our students spent the semester researching and compiling information and connections for the Community Organizing Alliance. The COA currently serves the Greater Maine…