Welcome to the Kings Trails Chapter of

National Charity League, Inc.!

Kingwood, TX

^{Mothers and Daughters Serving Communities Together}

Philanthropies Served:

AABY, Arrow Project, Atascocita Library, Be An Angel, Family Time, Houston Zoo, Humble Area Assistance Ministries (HAAM), Humble ISD Education Foundation, Kingwood Dance Theater (KDT), Susan G. Komen Foundation, Teens Against Cancer, VLAC, YMCA

About our organization:

In 1925, a small group of women interested in philanthropic work founded the Charity League in Los Angeles. They worked quietly, doing Red Cross work, making layettes and assembling and delivering baskets of food to the hungry at holiday times. Sometimes they brought their daughters with them. By 1938, so many daughters had become involved that they decided to form their own group. They called themselves the Ticktockers.

In 1947, these groups united to become the first mother-daughter charity and took their present name, National Charity League. At that time, the mothers also took their name, Patronesses. The newly formed group decided to expand its program beyond philanthropic work to include educational and cultural activities.

NCL was reorganized and incorporated as National Charity League, Inc. in 1958. Today, National Charity League, Inc. is a mother-daughter organization dedicated to serving the communities in which chapters are formed and to fostering the mother-daughter relationship. Our goals are to promote a sense of community responsibility in our daughters and to strengthen the mother-daughter relationship. NCL membership selection is a required sponsor/co-sponsor process that begins in January of the daughter's 6th grade year; the sponsor and co-sponsor are members of the local chapter who know the prospective member.  The daughters along with their mothers participate in a 6-year educational program of philanthropic work, leadership training, educational activities and cultural events.