The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. Originally organized by Margaret Roswell Hawkins, Sarah Strickland Scott, and seven of their friends, these women envisioned an organization that would respond to the unique needs of Black women. Specifically, the club sought to center its focus on the civic, educational, and cultural development of the immediate community. The Links, Incorporated is now a premier international service organization with over 17,000 members in 299 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. It has a legacy of friends providing service that changes lives.  Established by an original circle of nine friends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946, The Links, Incorporated is very much alive and well.

The members of The Links, Incorporated are influential decision makers and opinion leaders. The Links, Incorporated has attracted many distinguished women who are individual achievers and who have made a difference in their communities and the world. They are business and civic leaders, role models, mentors, activists, and volunteers who work towards a common vision by engaging like-minded organizations and individuals for partnership.

Members of The Links, Incorporated regularly contribute more than 1 million documented service hours in their respective communities annually. The Links Foundation, Incorporated, the philanthropic arm of The Links, Incorporated, has made more than $25 million in charitable contributions since its founding. Working closely with its sponsors and supporters, The Links, Incorporated is focused on creating transformational programming and impacting lives in communities through five facets: Services to Youth, The Arts, National Trends and Services, International Trends and Services, and Health and Human Services.

Learn more about the national organization at linksinc.org