Founder's Day 2023

337 Kenyon Street,Stratford CT 06614

15 April, 2023

Description

Founded in 1935 by national educator and humanitarian, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (“NCNW”) whose mission is to provide assistance, advocacy and empowerment to women of African descent, their families and their communities. She founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman University) in Daytona, Florida in 1904, provided advice in the shaping of government policy regarding African-Americans and women during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was a contributing member of the U.S. committee at the founding of the United Nations. Her successors, Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, a past national president of Girls Scouts, USA; Vivian Mason, a VP of the humanitarian organization CARES; Dr. Dorothy I. Height, known as the “Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement”, grew NCNW from a national to an international organization adding chapters in the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. We are now led by Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. NCNW is a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) with the United Nations. NCNW’s international headquarters is located one block from the White House.