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After receiving tax-exempt nonprofit status in 1966, the NCNW trained a number of black women for volunteer community service, as well as helped low-income black women in job training, and addressed the problems surrounding black youth.

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NCNW was founded in 1935 by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, an influential educator and activist, and for more than fifty years, the iconic Dr. Dorothy Height was president of NCNW. Over the years many influential activists were recipients of NCNW honors. This list included John Lewis, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Marian Wright Edelman and Sidney Poitier.

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Mary McLeod Bethune, a teacher and governmental analyst for who had been born in to the slavery, created the NCNW on December 5, 1935. she saw the urgency for African American women rights after the civil rights movement. She saw the unequal behavior the women in the community faced even with laws in place for protection and saw this as an act of injustice.

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the ncnw is an organization for African american women who's main goal is to lead, advocate for, and empower women of African descent, their families and communities. It is an organization compiled by 300 campus and community-based sections and 32 national women’s organizations connected to over 2 million women and men.