Związek Polek w Ameryce) is a fraternal benefit society that was founded on May 22, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois.
Chmielinska was vocal in her belief that women deserved equality and actively worked to promote this cause.
Stefania Chmielinska and other founding members worked against these restrictions and developed the Alliance into a national organization as well as a leader in the Polish and Polish-American communities.
[citation needed] The Polish Women's Alliance has been actively involved in some of the most central events and causes in Polish–American life.
Among these were Poland’s determination to become a nation after the Partitions of Poland, during which the country lacked an independent existence; funding the purchase of radium for the experiments of Madame Maria Sklodowska Curie; a fundraising effort for a Polish Women's Alliance bomber for the United States Air Force during World War II; the founding and organizing of the Polish American Congress in 1944; restoration and renovation projects for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island; supporting the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; and supporting the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington D.C., and the Pope John Paul II Pilgrim Home in Rome.