Since its founding in 1950, the National Council of Churches (NCC) has been the leading force for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States. The NCC's member faith groups — from a wide spectrum of Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, historic African American and Living Peace churches — include 45 million persons in more than 100,000 local congregations in communities across the nation.

In the last two years, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) has revitalized their work on behalf of women within the life of the NCC, their thirty-five member churches, and in society at large. The NCC established the position of NCC Program Director for Women’s Ministries and hired Rev. Ann Tiemeyer to begin work in October of 2007. The NCC Program Director for Women’s Ministry position has been an essential step in building and maintaining the capacity to address the programming needs regarding societal issues affecting women’s lives. The focus of NCC’s Program for Women’s Ministry is to engage the member communions to: work together ecumenically at the local, judicatory, national and international levels; identify the passions, concerns, and gifts of the women in the NCC communions; promote women’s leadership and increase their involvement in pastoral, educational and social justice activities; create a special focus on leadership opportunities for young adult women; work collaboratively with all NCC Commissions, the NCC Justice for Women Working Group, and all other NCC committees to identify new opportunities for the inclusion and advancement of women into leadership positions and roles; and bring the human and financial resources together for the long term support of this NCC program and in support of similar initiatives in denominations, judicatories, and churches.