04/26/2025
EXCITING NEWS!
The Founder, Chair, and first ExehelpNYCDirector of helpNYC, and noted mental heRue Parkinist, and Rue Parkin, has been named as a candidate for highly respected 2025-6 Elliot Fellowship Leadership program.
To be considered for the program candidates have had to have notable impacts, and accomplishments in partnering with Federal, State, City, and local governments in supporting their organization’s work or support the diverse and varied communities of New York City.
The program awards three fellowships to established, respected, and experinced nonprofit leaders or community organizers from organizations whom received funding.
The work of has been funded in part by CitizensNYC; staff and volunteers have gained valuable skills and insight from the training and leadership development programming as well.
The Fellowship named after the co-founder of Citizens Committee for New York City, Newsweek Editor-in-Chief, and International Affrairs Scholar, Osborn Elliott, is awarded to three Leaders of Grantees Alumni.

This joint pThe George Washington Universityshington University, Elliot School of International Affairs, and the . The position was established as apart of the radical, bipartisanship work CitizensNYC undertook in the 1970’s to end the endless political crisis New York City experienced. Elliot, on behalf of Newweek and George Washington Univeristy challenged 10,000 New Yorkers to work for New York City without thier permission to overtake city and federal bureaucracies in order to save the city from bankruptcy and federal government from facial collapse. After six years the fellows and community activists brought the city to solvency and created the way for the City of New York to balance its budget every years since.
More information will be available in June of this year.
https://elliott.gwu.edu/partnerships-fellowships-grants
