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A Woman for President? Impossible! Transferring the White House Project to Poland and France
This proposal provides a brief description of the nonprofit organization called the White House Project (WHP), and assesses the possibility of its transfer to both France and Poland. Information was gathered in interviews with the Vice President of Development and Administration, Tiffany Dufu, and founding board member and chief donor Barbara Dobkin of the Dobkin Family Foundation. Our… Read More
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“Copy, Change and Paste: Posse Foundation Goes Europe”
In the United States, inner city public school students are greatly underrepresented in institutions of higher education. Likewise, in both the Netherlands and Germany, non-Western migrant children are inadequately represented in high schools that feed into the university system.. These students do not lack potential or intelligence. Instead, their chances of educational success are often… Read More
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Finding Common Ground: Implementing Culturally Competent Care in Denmark
Abstract In many ways, the universal health care system in Denmark addresses the needs of its patients. The system has not, however, adequately adapted to the changing concerns of the country's increasingly diverse population of ethnic minorities. There is one model of culturally competent care, espoused by community health centers in the United States, serves as a template for addressing this… Read More
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Taking Crisis as a Chance: Innovation, Community Change, and Reforming the Criminal Legal System in Red Hook, Brooklyn
“First things learned are hardest to forget. Traditions pass from one generation to the next. We need to change.” Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991) On December 17, 1992, Principal Patrick Daly left Public School 15 in Brooklyn to search for a nine year-old child who had run out of school after getting into a fight with a class-mate. Daly ran into the Central Mall that flows… Read More
