The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation established in 1946. Today, it comprises more than 17,000 professional women of African descent in 299 chapters across 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and persons of African ancestry.