For twenty-five years the Center’s focus has been on ensuring that government understands its responsibility in developing and carrying out public policy on issues of concern to women and their families. Through its long-term partnerships with labor unions, the Legislature, Executive Branch, the University community and non-profit sector, the Center has been in the forefront of public policy advancement. At the same time, the Center has earned an outstanding reputation for leadership and research on women in government as demonstrated through such reports as The Career Ladder Study, Barriers to Promotion, and Comparable Worth.

Dr. Elliott brings a strong commitment and dedication to her position as Executive Director. An advocate of programs for women, children and their families for more than 15 years, she is an advocate for creating a “safe space” for women and their children in the family reunification “healing” process. She is active in the public dialogue on the New York State Rockefeller Drug Laws and is actively involved in local and nationwide advocacy efforts that address the burgeoning problems of substance abuse, the criminal justice system and the exponential increase of women in prison.

During the first five years of her tenure as Executive Director, Dr. Elliott took the agency from a $700,000 to a 3.5 million fiscal capacity, which increased the staff from 20 to 50, expanded the residential beds from 16 to 42, the day treatment census from 20 to 70 and enhanced client programming. Dr. Elliott has raised more than $8 million for a new Greenhope facility; one of the first of its kind in New York City which is slated to break ground in 2004. It will house both women and their children in the East Harlem community.

Contact: Catherine Poku, (212) 996-8633 ext. 10 or email cpoku@greenhope.org

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Women in Public Leadership Award
On September 18, 2003, Anne R. Elliott, Ph.D., Executive Director was awarded the prestigious Women in Public Leadership Award by the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society in Albany, NY.

"This award was established by the Center in 2003 to recognize the outstanding service of acknowledged women leaders. Because the Center is committed to activism and social change, the award is for women who have made a substantive difference in effecting change and responding to unmet needs - making the community, the state and the world a better place in the broadest sense."

- From The Center for Women in Government and Civil Society publication "Expand Possibilities Create Opportunities"