Bennett Midland has collaborated with and supported key decision makers at all levels of government and in the not-for-profit sector. We take great pride in our clients and their successes.

Recent News

June 2012 – Clare Newman, an experienced urban planner who specializes in economic development and public-private partnerships, and Matt Segneri, former senior advisor to the Mayor of Boston and expert in civic and social innovation, have joined the Bennett Midland team as Managers.

April 2012 – The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) has commissioned Bennett Midland to support the agency’s development of practice standards for the recently enacted “Close-to-Home” initiative. Close to Home will provide New York City youth involved in the juvenile justice system with services and support in their communities.

February 2012 – The New York City Department of Transportation has engaged Bennett Midland to conduct an economic impact study of recent NYC street improvement projects, including bike lanes on 8th and 9th avenues, plaza improvements around Madison Square, Park and the reconstruction of Houston Street.

January 2012 – Bloomberg Philanthropies has hired Bennett Midland to provide project management and technical assistance support to the Innovation Delivery Team Grant program, a national initiative geared toward increasing innovation capacity in municipal government to address complex urban challenges.

December 2011 – Uthman Olagoke and Sean Stefanik, two experienced researchers, have joined the Bennett Midland team as Associates.

November 2011 – The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded Bennett Midland a Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS) contract. U.S. Federal Agencies use the MOBIS program to order independent consulting services.

October 2011 – New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services has commissioned Bennett Midland to conduct a workload analysis of their largest department, the Division of Child Protection. This study would culminate in a complete staffing model, as well as actionable management recommendations.

September 2011 – New York City’s Economic Development Corporation has selected Bennett Midland to provide on-call management and economic development consulting services over the next three years.

August 2011 – The Innocence Project, a national litigation and policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals, has hired Bennett Midland to help plan its state-based legislative reform efforts over the next five years.

July 2011 – Dalia Mechanic, an experienced not-for-profit finance analyst, and a recent graduate of NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, has joined the Bennett Midland team as a Senior Associate.

June 2011 – The City of New York has engaged Bennett Midland to conduct an operational analysis of arrest processing citywide, and to identify practical, actionable recommendations to expedite processing times and reduce overtime costs.

May 2011 – The Coalition of Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) brings together municipal governments from across the country with the goal of advancing innovative financial empowerment initiatives. CFE selected Bennett Midland to develop a strategic plan to help the coalition improve its potential for impact and guide organizational growth.

April 2011 – Sara Mogulescu, Senior Consultant at Bennett Midland, collaborated with partners at the Vera Institute of Justice to publish a new report, Juvenile Detention Reform in New York City: Measuring Risk Through Research. | learn more: The report online

March 2011 – We are pleased to announce that New York City's Administration for Children's Services (ACS) has launched its Family Assessment Program (FAP), a new continuum of services to support adolescent youth at risk of entering the foster care system. The Bennett Midland team has worked extensively with ACS over several projects to help design the FAP program, and to build the underlying information architecture. | learn more: ACS press release

February 2011 – The Administration for Children’s Services has engaged Bennett Midland to develop a complete staffing model to operate New York City’s juvenile secure detention facilities. This staffing plan will be implemented following the closure of Bridges Juvenile Secure Detention Center.

December 2010 – The Atlantic Philanthropies hired Bennett Midland to develop a "payables prediction system." This new system will support the foundation's internal budgeting processes by using statistical modeling to estimate quarterly grantee payments.

November 2010 – The City University of New York (CUNY) and NYC Department of Education (DOE) have selected Bennett Midland through a competitive RFP to undertake the development of a Longitudinal Tracking Database, which will link data collected by the two institutions, providing a robust longitudinal student data set and substantially expanding the research and reporting capacity of the two systems.

October 2010 – The National Juvenile Defender Center has engaged Bennett Midland to construct a performance management framework to track and analyze progress in one of its largest initiatives, the Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network. | learn more: Our work with NJDC

July 2010 – TransitCenter has engaged Bennett Midland to study how the recently increased federal transit tax benefit has impacted mass transit ridership across the United States. | learn more: Our work with TransitCenter

June 2010 – The New York City Office of the Criminal Justice Coordinator has chosen Bennett Midland to design and build an indigent defense performance and contract management tool. | learn more: Our work with CJC

April 2010 – The New York County District Attorney’s Office has selected Bennett Midland to plan and guide the establishment of a new data and policy analysis unit. | learn more: Our work with DAO

March 2010 – The City University of New York and the New York City Department of Education have engaged Bennett Midland to draw up a roadmap for a new interagency student-tracking database. | learn more: Our work with DOE