[4] Founders had a great purpose in mind: "to consider various political problems...and to offer practical methods by which women may initiate, support, or oppose municipal movements."

[7] Early on, WCC met on the 18th floor of the Vanderbilt Hotel, where members discussed topics of interest to the woman's club movement.

[9] Mary Garrett Hay was nominated for president of WCC in 1918 and helped organize it to become more civically effective.

WCC was organized into special committees which included those on education, welfare, children, the justice system and health issues.

That same year, WCC incorporates, forms an Organization Committee of 100, and holds its first official meeting on January 31, 1916.