The University of Southern California's Price School of Public Policy has bestowed its top honor for capstone projects: the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Recognition Award for Outstanding Performance.
This year's honorees are a team of 2023 MPA graduates: Aurelio Aleman, Alejandro Faz, Lia Jones-Karavokiris, Ayesha Karriem-Mayagoitia, and Kevin Bautista of the Northern Marianas College.
The team worked with Quorum, a Denver-based nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of marginalized communities through music and the arts.
The team compiled a 90-page methodological research study and comprehensive recommendations with more than 170 references in three months, reports the Los Angeles Times.
One of the team's core recommendations was for Quorum to adopt a matrix organizational structure, in which team members report to multiple leaders.
"In this case, Quorum could have more collaboration among the performing aspects of the nonprofit, while maintaining top-down structure for administrative decision making," the team wrote.
"We wanted to hone in on their preference for collaboration while at the same time not compromise on performance and efficiency administratively."
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