The Links, Incorporated, founded in 1946, is a women’s volunteer service organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African-Americans and other persons of African-American ancestry. A premier international service organization with more than 16,000 members in 282 chapters located in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom continues its legacy of friends providing service that changes lives.