The National Association of Negro Business and Profesional Women's Clubs, Inc (NANBPWC, Inc.) was founded in July of 1935.  The founders were Emma Odessa Young, Ollie Chinn Porter, and Effie Diton of New York City; Bertha Perry Rhodes, Josephine B. Keene and Adelaide Flemming of Philadelphia; and Pearl Flippen of Atlantic City.

The Founders were owners, managers, college graduates, and other professionally licensed women, who had managed to realize some measure of personal success, at a time when there was not a national movement to improve the lot of Black Americans; where there was no black capitalism program, nor any black studies curricula. Still, these women felt prepared to offer leadership.

The mission of the organization is to promote and protect the interests of African American business and professional women; to serve as advisors for young people seeking to enter business and the professions; to improve the quality of life in our local and global communities, and to foster good fellowship. 

​NANBPWC, Inc. is comprised of seven districts: The Mid-Atlantic, North Central, Northeast, Southeast, South Central, Western, and International districts. The Northeast District was organized in 1959 at the first regional meeting of the Southeast District. It is the largest of the seven districts, that form the NANBPWC and includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, northern New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Island of Bermuda. 

​Over the years, NANBPWC, Inc. has grown in numbers and scope, conducting many needed community service activities that go far beyond the original purpose. Women have come a long way and so has NANBPWC, Inc.