The club's mission was to improve the welfare of African Americans and of providing service to the African-American community.

[1] The CSACWC developed different areas of service, including International Peace and World Affairs, Forestry, and Prison & Parole.

[3] In 1910, Bertha L. Turner of Pasadena, California collected recipes and edited, The Federation Cookbook: A Collection of Tested Recipes Compiled by the Colored Women of the State of California, a cookbook to preserve black culinary identity and celebrate the culinary success of local housewives,[4] with many of the recipes from members of the National Federation of Colored Women.

In 1921, Irene Bell Ruggles, the then president of the California State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs opened the Madame C.J.

[5] The Walker Home was a charitable, community and social services organization for single African American woman new to San Francisco, who were not eligible to use the YWCA.