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- Establishes the National Family Day Care Project to support home-based childcare.
- Conducts the nationwide study Mothers in the Workplace.
- Begins the Work/Family Project, focusing on parental balance of work and family responsibilities.
- Expands the Home Instruction Program for Pre-School Youngsters (HIPPY) to the US. HIPPY USA becomes an independent not-for-profit organization. By 1999, HIPPY USA has 121 programs in 28 states and a federal study concludes that HIPPY graduates out-perform their peers in pre-kindergarten programs.
- Creates the Center for the Child to research children's issues and impact public policy.
- Conducts a silent vigil at the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC to free Soviet Jewry.
- Publishes Domestic Violence -- An NCJW Response.
- As a testament to its ongoing work as a vital national institution, NCJW is honored as one of the select organizations whose register of records is archived by the Library of Congress.
- Addresses two mobilizations for the fight to protect reproductive choice in Washington, DC.
- Publishes Community Partners: The Staff/Volunteer Team in Soviet Jewish Resettlement, to aid in the efforts to assist the new Jewish immigrants from the USSR.
- Receives the honor of an exhibit highlighting the achievement of Hannah G. Solomon at the National Museum of American History in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
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